Arizona Diamondbacks’ pitcher Clay Zavada was awarded the 2009 “Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year,” presented by the American Mustache Institute. Stachist would like to congratulate Zavada on his accomplishment. And for having a kick-ass name. The announcement article is a good read full of mustache slang: “lip garden,” “labia sebucula,” which is Latin for “lip sweater.” It speaks of the mustache as enhancing the Zavada’s baseball skill:

The mustache’s enhancement of a player’s skills has stirred controversy in the sport as an internal report produced by Major League Baseball reportedly said it believes Zavada’s mustache was responsible for at least 42 of his 52 strikeouts in 2009, leading the Diamondbacks and 12 other teams to conduct a worldwide search for other mustached players.

Runner-up for the award is Northeastern State University professor Dr. John Yeutter.

OK. We have some stache submissions. See that little graphic on the right that says, “Submit Your Stache?” Well some people clicked it and sent us their staches. The link now takes you to the form with the submissions underneath it.

It’s Stachist.com. With a ‘c’. Because that’s how ‘mustache’ is spelled. But don’t worry if you forget it;  Stashist.com (with the ‘s’) will now bring you right here to Stachist.com (with a ‘c’). I just registered it today. Generally it’s a good idea to get all the misspellings for your domain name (especially if it’s difficult to spell). That way people have no trouble finding you and it also prevents impostors from mimicking your blog.

This is a quasi-famous mural on the brick wall of Hank’s Eats on Sutter St. at Polk in San Francisco. It says “Ross” underneath the dude; I don’t know if that’s the character or the mural’s artist. Satisfy your hunger.

More Movember madness: T-shirt slanger PalmerCash is donating $10 from every mustache-themed t-shirt they sell in the month of Movember. This one on the right will set you back $22.97, but, mind you, almost half of that is going to the Movember Foundation and ultimately to the Prostate Cancer Foundation and Lance Armstrong Foundation.

This is my favorite pick from their selection because it highlights the dual preconceptions that people have of men with ‘staches. Are they gentlemen? Are they criminals?

Whenever I have a moustache there are always two camps… those who think it makes me look like a gentleman, and those who make me think it looks like a criminal.

To be honest, it makes me look like both.

More Ts after the jump.

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Australian restaurant, MYO, is helping out the Movember Foundation. Check out this ad featuring a mustache made from bacon. Mmmmmmmmmm….. bacon.

Enjoy a My Way Breakfast Deal and we’ll donate $1 to the Movember Foundation.