I don’t know what to think or say about these photos. Argentine model, Araceli González poses topless but has un bigote. I must say, given the whole package, I’d take her with a ‘stache.

Via Thighs Wide Shut. See the rest of her here (NSFW).

Stache Bash is probably the biggest mustache get-together in recent times. The celebration is put on by the American Mustache Institute and they estimate the attendance of the event to be at least 1,500 people.

The event is scheduled for Friday, October 30, a day before Halloween. As such, Halloween costumes are strongly encouraged. If you need an idea of what sort of a costume to wear with your mustache, check out Stachist’s mustache Halloween recommendations.

Headlining the event will be the mustachioed John Oates.

The winner of the 2009 Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year will also be announced after nearly 100,000 votes were sumbied on the AMI’s website.

The deets:

• In St. Louis @ the Orpheum Theater
• $29
• 21 and over
• John Oates is playing!

This is my friend, Kate (on the right). I don’t know who the guy is on the left; I think he might have been her boyfriend or something. I’m giving her props for coining the them “stachist.” We were talking on gchat and she said that she came up with a new word: stachist. Like fascist. You could also call it stachism, like fascism. Brilliant idea, I thought. Immediately and instinctively I checked if the domain name had been registered, assuming that it probably was, like every other -ist domain name. It wasn’t, I registered it and now here we are 19 posts later and still going strong.

After buying it I realized it seems like a copy of SFist or Gothamist. But whatever. It’s derived from fascist by my friend Kate.

I had been thinking about making a mustache blog for a while and I had crappier .org domain names like savethestache.org and shavethestache.org. Those are no good. Now that I have a solid domain name, I’m motivated, I feel like the blog writes itself. I guess it helps that I’m also kinda sorta unemployed.

Movember is the month formerly known as November where Mo Bros (men) grow Mos (mustaches) for the Movember foundation which donates its proceeds to the Prostate Cancer Foundation and the Lance Armstrong Foundation. You grow a mustache in November for charity and also to raise awareness for men’s health. You can participate as part of a team or as an individual. At the end of the month Movember hosts Gala Partés in  Aspen, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle. You can be sure I’ll be attending the San Francisco gala.

The idea for Movember was sparked in 2003 over a few beers in Melbourne, Australia.  The guys behind it joked about 80s fashion and decided it was time to bring the moustache back.  In order to justify their Mos (Australian slang for moustache), they used their new looks to raise money for prostate cancer research… never dreaming that facial hair would ultimately lead to a global movement that would get men talking about a taboo subject – their health.

What if you already have a ‘stache?

If you already have a Moustache you can do a ‘reverse Movember’ and have people donate to you to shave it off.  Alternatively, you could shave off your moustache at the start of Movember and then re-grow your Mo throughout the month…. Maybe it’s time to try a new Mo style?

Bernard Kerick, former NYC police commissioner is being held on conspiracy and fraud charges. He has a mustache. Now he’s on the other side of the camera. Where’s the profile shot?

Via Gawker & the NY Times

Now, I, like many others, remember first hearing of this band only after their hit single “Take Me Out” permeated the radio waves in 2004.  And I thought that would be all I would care to hear.   But after acquiring the Scottish post-punks’ album, I took a greater interest in their other songs, and their sound in general.  So when asked to write about the kids from Glasgow, I leapt at the chance to—

What?  Wait, what?  Dammit.  You mean to say, I’m supposed to write about the Archduke?  That mustachioed man killed in Sarajevo in 1914?  The heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire gunned down on a side street while touring the provincial capital?  The European leader whose death at the hand Gavrilo Princip—of the radical Serbian nationalist organization, the Black Hand—was the spark that set off the powder keg that was the Balkan Peninsula, that began the chain of events which culminated in the inevitable war every sword-rattling belligerent imperialist in Europe was clamoring for at the dawn of the 20^th century, a war which set a bloody precedent for a hellishly catastrophic hundred years of world history—war, conflict, and suffering at an unprecedented scale?  Him?  That guy in the helmet?  Oh, well, I can do that.

Born several years before his death, Franz never aspired in particular to start a world war, or to become an archduke for that matter.  Unfortunately, history—and his father—had other plans.

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Ever wonder what some people would look like without a mustache? You could always use your hand to block the lower part of their face but airbrushing someone’s stache away in Photoshop gives you a much better idea.

The Chive has collected 8 Photoshopped pictures of famous mustaches-removed including Osama bin Laden, Charlie Chaplin, Tom Selleck, Ché, Albert Einsten, Salvador Dali and Hitler.

I could smell this guy’s stogie half way down the block. He was on his work break.

How long have you had your mustache for?

Since I was 19. And I’m 55. So… figure it out.

Wow. That’s a long time. What made you decide to grow one?

Probably because I could back then. It was the first time I could really grow one.

Have you had different styles?

Yeah, I’ve had a goatee. But now it’s all white so I don’t do it. Just this little flavor patch.

Where are you from originally?

I was born in the Philippines but I grew up in Minnesota.

Have you ever thought about shaving it?

Not seriously.

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Do you have a good mustache story?

Can’t think of one off of hand. I’m sure I do but…

The 20,000 Forint note, worth US$111.54, features a superb walrus stache, which is fitting because it’s the most valuable Hungarian bill. The Hungarian equivalent of our “Benjamin” is a Ferenc.

I can’t think of any mustaches on US money. I love how colorful foreign money is.

…who has the best mustache of them all?

Ever wondered what you would look like with a mustache? Ever wonder what you’d like like with a different mustache? This mustache self portrait mirror by the Design Can in Brooklyn lets you wake up every morning and find out. Amuse your friends with this fun mirror. They also have other cuts like antlers, a half skull and a pearl necklace. I dig the fancy borders.

You can buy the mirrors via Elsewares although I don’t think they have the mustache one in stock :(. See it in action after the jump.

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