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I am seriously considering participating in this. What do you think?
The Great Mustache off of 2007 is a contest and fund raising event for testicular cancer awareness and research. Founded by Phoenix, Arizona residents Jonathan Heinl, Jeff Dempsey and Dana Witt, the organization aims to raise thousands of dollars through a world-wide mustache contest.
The Great Stache Off is open to anyone willing to grow a mustache, starting September 1 and ending on October 31, 2007. To enter the Great Stache Off, contestants/fund raisers must donate $20 to the fund, and shave ALL facial hair on September 1. Contests are to remain clean-shaven (except for their upper lip/mustache area) until October 31, 2007.
I spotted these gems on a van in the mall parking lot near my office. I thought they were just about the funniest/sweetest/most awesome/most unexpected things I’d seen in a while, so I couldn’t help but snap a couple grainy iPhone shots.
The url in the photos is for the guy who painted the murals
As a reporter, I apologize for not being able to provide a photograph, but the burning took place so quickly, there wasn’t time to grab my camera.
In any case, perhaps the most poignant moment of all, however, was when Crimson Rose, one of the six people on the Burning Man board that runs the event and the person in charge of the Man, said, on Com, “I want that asshole arrested….And I want the first shot.”
What happens when a member of your counterculture runs counter to your counterculture?
There’s more over at 10 Zen Monkeys and Laughing Squid
In incredibly odd news, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without permission.
From the article in Newsweek:
According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is “an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation.”
For anyone knowing anything about the China/Tibet issues, the reasoning on the part of the Chinese government is apparent here without even reading the article. Obviously this is pretty silly to anyone that doesn’t believe in reincarnation in the first place, but I do find it interesting that a nation is legislating its citizens’ participation in whatever they believe the afterlife to be.
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