We sent the call and you answered. Well, rather Joseph, our new summer intern answered. Joseph is enjoying the best summer of his life: the summer between high school and university. He has no responsibilities, that is, he didn’t until he elected to write for Stachist. Now we plan on exploiting him to produce content for our silly blog. Well… we’ll at least write him a letter of recommendation.

What Joseph lacks in experience he makes up for in mustache. His lip sweater would make even the most mature of sheriffs jealous. He’ll have no problem buying beer with that baby on his lip. I couldn’t have matched that at his age.

Below are the photos he sent in with his application. How could we not hire him? Follow his posts at stachist.com/authors/lohjoeman

“Me, as of today, in one of many mustache-centric outfits”

“My friends' enthusiastic, albeit unsuccessful, attempt to take down the glorious stash”

This past weekend, I celebrated my birthday. Yet, what was put together as a celebration of my entrance into this world years ago, came more as an exaltation of the regal hair that rests atop my lip. Instead of receiving the normal tomfoolery of itunes cards and straight cash, I came into more unique tailored gifts, such as mustache comb and wax, topped off with the find of the year: The Milk Mustache Book.

In reality, it is the perfect gift as it may be given to both the mustachioed and also to the less fortunate forced to wander through daily life with a naked upper lip. Those with mustaches may compare their hairy masterpieces with the lactose-based imitations of celebrities (all the while holding their heads high in glory), and those lacking a furry companion may bring the book into their lives as a beacon of hope as to what may be.

Oh yea, and you can read about the advertising campaign too.

Photographer Dave Mead photographed the competitors of the 2009 World Beard and Mustache Competition. His prints are currently on display at Chelsea Market in New York under the title of “Magnificent Specimens.” And that they are! If you can’t make it to NY you can buy some of the prints for $350 or just view them online. (I suppose for $350 you could buy a plane ticket to New York…)

The portraits are very well composed. Besides finely waxed and sculpted facial hair, they make use of detailed costumes that are fitting to each ‘stache. Check ‘em out.

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Ahhh Mustache Harbor. If there was a sound for what having a mustache feels like, it would sound like these guys. They play so-called “yacht rock“: smooth, happy grooves from the 70s and 80s that are best heard while on a yacht. Their set list is a collection of songs that make you feel good, songs you may or may not remember from days of yore, depending on how old you are, and Mustache Harbor plays them to perfection. I get so giddy when I hear the first keyboard strokes on You Make Dreams Come True by Hall & Oates.

They play next Wednesday at Grant & Green and Thursday at the ever-so-appropriate La Barca.

Larry McClure, a Bay Area (Concord) man took home a $1000 prize for winning the award for best mustache at the Beard Team USA’s Annual Beard and Mustache Championships, held in Bend, Oregon.

Awards were given for the following categories:

• Mustache
• Partial Beard
• Full Beard
• Freestyle

Beard Team USA is responsible for choosing competitors from the United States for the World Beard and Mustache Championship to be held in Norway in 2011. Larry thinks he’ll attend.

If you’re interested in joining, Beard Team USA has many local chapters across the nation.

There are more photos of the event on Laughing Squid.

Congratulations Larry!

In July 2009, Akaash Iqbal, a 14 year old brit, was forced out of school for flying the flag of manliness atop his upper lip. His father is correctly outraged, but for the wrong reasons. He wishes the mustache to stay, but only to prevent shaving from bringing it in fuller. THIS is the silent danger to mustaches that hides behind discrimination- the father protects son, but not mustache! Of what worth is a son if he is allowed to enter manhood without knowing the true dignity that is being a mustachioed Island glowing out radiantly among the sea of barren faces that is today’s society?

Sure they shave their legs, but bikers make up for this feminine practice by rarely shaving their faces, as is the case with the subject of our most recent stache submission, Tim. Tim is an avid mountain biker in Pennsylvania. His parabola-shaped stache is all waxed up and ready to race.

If you think you have a comparable, if not better, mustache, then please submit your stache!

It seems like they’re putting mustaches on everything these days. You can always put one on yourself  alá a fake mustache. Or you can put one on your car. Now you can even put a mustache on your MacBook. Stick With Me Baby makes decals of hair with which to anthropromorphize the glowing Apple logo on your laptop. Their selection of mustaches is standard but they have creative names to replace the mustache’s more household names. For instance, what is commonly known as the “Dali” is called, more generically, the “surrealist.” The up-side-down handlebar, or horseshoe, they call the “self defense.” And the “Fu Manchu,” the “wise tentacles of Dr. Mooch.”

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Joel Quenneville, the venerable coach of the Chicago Blackhawks, currently has the team on the brink of their first Stanley Cup since 1961.  And by Joel Quenneville, I mean his mustache.  There is nothing like a quality gray mustache that says to players, “Follow me.  I will bring you to the glory land.”

Not since Mike Ditka has a stache had such power over Chicago.  The hockey hopes and dreams of a city that has been starved of a Cup win for almost 50 years is pinned, quite literally, to the upper lip of the man to the left.  Because, if they close out the series they currently lead 3-2, they will win the second greatest trophy in all of sports.  Behind the World Cup, of course.  But only because no league has created a Golden Mustache as a trophy.

My friends the Khalerias are 5 months into an open-ended world trip and they’ve been keeping their friends updated via their blog.

While I was checking in on them, I noticed this photo, which I like to think that they snuck in for me.