The secret history of the goatee.
Category: Bears And Beards
Bear Band
The world’s first bear boy band.
Bear-Wear Update
A beard-warmer.
Beard Humor
Three guys on a desert island. I don’t quite know why this theme has taken off today. Again. Nerves, I guess I’m trying to take my mind off Iowa while we wait …
The Beard
A classic Kids In The Hall sketch.
Dissent Of The Day
A reader writes:
What’s all this beard stuff? Those of us amongst the beard impaired are plenty impressed with Robert Plant’s. I can’t grow a beard to save my life. Once I was on a cruise for a week and thought I would try to give up shaving. The result was a scraggily, greasy patch of silliness more at home on a high-school greaser than a 30+ gentleman like myself. Anyway, I’m not sure why you beard-able people need to lord it over us beard impaired folks with all of this hirsute frollicking cricketer stuff and awards and the like.
30+ ? Heh.
Beard Of The Year
The award has been won by Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. I think his beard is totally lame. Monty Panesar, English cricketer, was robbed:
A Beardist Manifesto
Whiskerino leads the follicular revolution.
Strike Beards!
This Dish gets to indulge two passions at once: politics and facial hair:
“I don’t want to overanalyze my own beard, but, I mean, Trotsky had a beard,” Rob Dubbin, a writer for “The Colbert Report” and an admirer, from his Harvard days, of the “thesis beard,” said. (A mutant cousin of the thesis beard, Jost pointed out, is the “neck beard,” grown sometimes during final exams.) “When you see someone else with a beard on the line, it resonates with the idea of lean times.”
Oh, go on. Over-analyze your own beard.
(Photo: SNL writer John Solomon. New Yorker slide-show here.)
The Dish 