Beard up Bay Area: the first wave.
Bearding up is the new shaving. And a few kind folks have shared their follicular fellowship with FTB. Among the notables, bloggers Tom Ziller (Sactown Royalty, AOL FanHouse) and Delinda Lombardo (Athlebrities) pledged allegiance straight out of the gate. Ziller is somewhat gifted in this department, but Delinda is the first female on board. She has dutifully pledged to stop shaving her legs. There will be more on female contributions to the movement—much more, and a poll forthcoming in a subsequent post—but there are also a number of other beards of record that are worthy of mention.
First, we have Fillipo (Fig. A). Deep in thought. Beer in hand. A thoughtful gentlemen, he is a respected music-industry cat, representing both Dubfandom and Bay Area-based RUNT Distribution. Salud.
The bubble beard shown in Fig. B belongs to Gd’s daughter Nora. I am distraught over the fact that she is presently outpointing me on Boom Dizzle’s leaderboard, but I can take solace in the fact that my chin gristle is surely gaining momentum, while her “cute” will surely wear on the voters. More solace can be taken in the fact that my two-year-old bathtub pics are not going to be on my MySpaceFoxFaceBook page when I’m 15. Hootie hoo. Just the same, she is an official entrant. Most of you are not. A handy button for contest entry will be coming shortly. We at FTB are not responsible for the lost hours of productivity that your employers will surely suffer while you upload “Most Mackadocious Album Cover” screenshots to Dolin’s contest therein.
The gentlemen in Fig. C was polite enough to supply a well-worded story along with his pic. Bonus points for beer, snow and adaptive reuse of the “ice beard.” His story? “Here’s my almost family man beard - notice the beer bottle within easy reach. This was taken about 3.5 weeks into my beard. I’m a Dub fan living in a Chicago ‘burb, so as a bonus my beard collected ice when I was out shoveling the driveway, which was nice since I could get a refreshing drink without having to stop shoveling.” I have nothing to add. Godspeed.
Finally, we have the entry supplied by word of muddled mumble from the deeply bearded Michael Blake. “Just wanted to add a local to the Fear the Beard fan honor roll. We had to stop work so that we could get this pic and represent. My boy Jorge, aka Chino (Fig. D). Holding it down for the town. Warrior fan letting it be known. They keep goin’ and we keep growin’. Keepin’ The Beard in the streets. Will Holla soon. Mic upon a Bike.”
Those would be your early-to-the-bandwagon entries. More to follow as the movement gains momentum. Ziller and Delinda, we will be needing some photographic evidence and/or contest entries soon. You know what to do. I’ve got another week’s growth on my chin now and about 500 posts to go.
Beard up,
Turman
