Sev, I just saw a commercial on German [!] TV: Philips wants you to grow a beard for as long as the German team is participating in the upcoming soccer EM 2012. http://www.philips.de/e/expressyourself/heimspiel.html
I guess the reasoning is our team will go a long way so everyone will in the end need what used to be a Philishave and now is just an electric shaving device by Philips. Phew.
Point: Do not worry about the trend, the trend-phase is over. Keep the beard until next year and name it “2000s nostalgia” – or go all ZZ Top and call it a timeless statement of the Rock’n’Roll Lifestyle. Which reminds me of a song by CAKE.
Always politicizing beards… patrician, proletarian, hippie, islamist, hipster? I’m just too depressed to shave. And yes, it looks good on Ex Beatnik Vampire.
Meh, I went bearded before the current hipster movement existed. Razor burn sucks. Wouldn’t mind not having it, but despise the dieing generations who take offense at its existence, expecially the Godites whose God supposedly endowed men with facial hair.
May 31, 2012
Wot is beard?
May 31, 2012
It looks good on him.
May 31, 2012
What’s Girl doing hanging out with Hemmingway?!
June 1, 2012
Vampire Hemmingway!
June 2, 2012
A beard is pretty much mandatory these days, just look around.
June 2, 2012
Oliver, don’t make me feel like a trend follower. I just started with this beard.
June 3, 2012
Beards are a hipster thing
June 3, 2012
Sev, I just saw a commercial on German [!] TV: Philips wants you to grow a beard for as long as the German team is participating in the upcoming soccer EM 2012. http://www.philips.de/e/expressyourself/heimspiel.html
I guess the reasoning is our team will go a long way so everyone will in the end need what used to be a Philishave and now is just an electric shaving device by Philips. Phew.
Point: Do not worry about the trend, the trend-phase is over. Keep the beard until next year and name it “2000s nostalgia” – or go all ZZ Top and call it a timeless statement of the Rock’n’Roll Lifestyle. Which reminds me of a song by CAKE.
June 4, 2012
Always politicizing beards… patrician, proletarian, hippie, islamist, hipster? I’m just too depressed to shave. And yes, it looks good on Ex Beatnik Vampire.
June 4, 2012
Patrician or proletarian? But what of noble plebeian? A good Caecilian beard?
June 4, 2012
Shave, phatnes, it will make you feel much better.
October 20, 2013
Meh, I went bearded before the current hipster movement existed. Razor burn sucks. Wouldn’t mind not having it, but despise the dieing generations who take offense at its existence, expecially the Godites whose God supposedly endowed men with facial hair.