The City That Breeds will be taking a posting hiatus until after the Thanksgiving holiday weekend and will resume its total idiocy on November 30th. The aforementioned Movember Charity pub crawl last Saturday raised a grand total of $1690 American U.S. Cold Hard Dollars™ (click here for some pictures!)- if you enjoy reading this site at all and would like to donate to the charity, click here and do so – no amount is too small. Have a safe and slap happy holiday.

(painting by Bryan Moon)

MOVEMBER!

The full-month charity extravaganza known as Movember has begun. Throughout the month, men all over the world will grow mustaches (and the occasional beard) in an effort to raise awareness for men’s health issues with a primary focus on Testicular and Prostate Cancer. The international organizers of Movember have teamed up with the Lance Armstrong Foundation and Prostate Cancer Foundation and will be splitting the money raised by Movember between the two.

The Prostate Cancer Foundation will use the money raised by Movember to fund research to find better treatments and a cure for prostate cancer, while the Lance Armstrong Foundation will use the money raised by Movember to fund the LIVESTRONG Young Adult Alliance program, which has the goal of improving survival rates and quality of life for young adults with cancer between the ages of 15 and 40. They will provide additional funds toward research initiatives to further understand the biology of adolescent and young adult cancers.

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As I eluded to about two weeks ago, November is quickly approaching and the time is nearly here to begin the fund raising bonanza for my charity of choice, Movember. In preparation for this monumental month of man, a group of us have truly stepped it up a notch (at least, from last year) and put together a bar crawl and a website (as well as the usual social media services) to serve as a portal for accepting donations. The website isn’t “active” until later this week, but in the meantime feel free to have a look-see at our Facebook group and Twitter page:

Facebook – Movember Baltimore
Twitter – @movemberbmore
Website – movemberbaltimore.com

Go right ahead and join up, please!

And without further ado, the flier for said bar crawl:

Registration for the bar crawl will begin on Wednesday, and the big campaign for soliciting donations (aka emails to my mom) will begin November 1st. In the meantime, I will be fluffing my moustache in anticipation.

Muke: I noticed The World Beard and Mustache Championships, held in Alaska this year, have announced the winners. Browse the pictures: some crazy elaborate mustaches there. Unfortunately, I come from a beardless DNA line. Oddly, this guy didn’t win.

Evan: I’ll go right ahead and guess that if you bother to fly all the way to Anchorage Alaska with any kind of beard or moustache, you’ll at least get a gift card to Chi Chi’s. But hey, we’ve got another two years until May 17, 2011 in Trondheim, Norway!!

…actually let’s go to that.

Also I couldn’t help but notice how hilarious the description for Willi Chevalier’s legacy is described, as he has won every single “Partial Beard Freestyle” category in the history of the contest, with one exception:

Willi has won this category at all WBMC’s in memory with the exception of the 2003 WBMC when he was on injured reserve following an unfortunate encounter with a power drill.

Injured reserve?

No more mustache rides for anyone, because Movember has ended with a bang. All told I raised $585.00!!! As of this minute, I’m in 332nd place in the U.S. for raising money. Not too shabby.

Thanks a million to everyone who donated, your prizes will be arriving shortly!

12/02/08 EDIT: MAKE THAT $635.00!! 299th PLACE!!!

EDIT: fixed for less horror and old man air chewing