Weekend Whiskers from the Blogosphere
by Misopogon | June 22nd, 2009With Misopogal departing for Israel from JFK, the Misopogon took this opportunity to leave the Great Lakes State and come see how things were stachin’ in the city. Meanwhile, the blogosphere blow’d up. This week in blogging, with bullets:
What do fashion bloggers wear on weekends? Wrightstache t-shirts!
- Sunday T-shirt spotting: the trendy Brooklynite at right knows clothes; by day she works for a fashion magazine, by night she’s the proprietress of The Haute Fuzz. And on Sundays, she can be seen strutting the balconies of the Jackie Robinson Rotunda, demonstrating this season’s classiest New York wear. The Fuzz also had a fashion tip for Wrightstache readers (lifted from Facebook):
“too bad you don’t have giant stache stickers we can go stick on the back of everyone else’s shirts… that other ‘5′ looks so sad and naked”
This is an idea not yet considered: if David were to wear a Wrightstache t-shirt, or even put a mustache over his number, would that have the same effect as real barbs over his lip? We’re guessing, no, but we’re willing to see it attempted.
Want more bloggy bullet goodness? You’ll have to give us a click-through first:
Blogs with Bullets (cont.)
- A shout-out to Jeff* the stadium supervisor security guy in the Shake Shack Pavilion. Jeff never misses a Mets game, and came over to compliment the t-shirts, noting he’s been seeing them all over the stadium this year. Way to go Wrightstache Wreaders!
- Jeff also noted there’s a stache shirt like ours out there that celebrates the (late) stache of Keith Hernandez, our Patron Stache. Anyone else know of this shirt?
- Speaking of the t-shirts, Matt and Matt of Meet the Matts, the best thing in blue and orange suits since Harry and Lloyd, stopped by to let us know they were sporting their stachey t-shirts at last week’s Blogs with Balls conference. If you’ve made it past all those links without clicking, yet, here’s your chance: thank-you back-link goes here.
- Speaking of Blogs with Balls, and blogging in general, blogging virtuoso Brian Cook (who publishes MGoBlog.com, the ‘paper’ of record for Michigan sports), last week put together a recap of recaps of the blogging trade show, and then went on to reply to our reply with quite possibly the longest and most detailed reply to a blog reply in blogging replying history.
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Are you getting all the head you deserve?
YOU MAY BE POURING YOUR BEER WRONG. In this interview (after ad), Maxim editor Michael Dawson interviews Samuel Adams brewer Bob Cannon, and learns that pouring a beer sideways to minimize head is just depriving oneself of one’s total beer experience. Cannon’s advice:
“Beer in the bottle is carbonation in the bottle … Everyone should drink beer how they like it, but the proper way to release these aromas, to get the full enjoyment out of the beer, is to pour it in the glass, and pour a good, thick head.”
The best advice, however, may be that at the very end of the segment:
Dawson: “So you should have a mustache when you’re done?”
Cannon: “Absolutely.”
Dawson: “Niice.”Niice.
- A Wrightstache reader noted the NHL isn’t the only place where the all-star officials come stached for the job. That of Bill Hohn is probably the most famous, all the more so after he spent the weekend kicking Braves out of the ballpark. Applause.
- WaPo blogger Dan Steinberg, in a late-May Q&A, artfully passed on speculation of Bobby Valentine returning to the NL East to manage the Nats:
- Jeff Salem, columnist of the Kansas City Sun Tribune, turned Father’s Day into a surprise 40-year birthday for his dad’s mustache.
- Final bullet: Jim Caple of ESPN Page 2 is the latest sports journalist to go for the (irritatingly patronizing) “guy gets blown away by female pitcher” story. This time, UW’s Danielle Lawrie and her cheekstaches provided the fuel for Caple’s fodder. Afterward, Caple tried to save face by showing Lawrie his 1989 IM softball championship team. Lawrie immediately smoked out the how:
“Lawrie’s tone indicated she was anything but impressed. And that tone did not change when I showed her the team photo taken immediately after our Widowmakers team won the 1989 UW intramural championship. ‘Nice mustaches,’ she said.”
“Silver Spring, Md.: How about Bobby Valentine to manage the Nats? He would be great copy for you. Another gift from Japan like the Cherry Blossoms.
Dan Steinberg: I only like to write about real mustaches, not fake ones”
This doesn’t rule out hypothetical mustaches.
* we think this was his name — we would remember but we unfortunately made his aquaintance in the midst of a high-pressure search for ice cream
June 22, 2009 
By Gigi, June 23, 2009 @ 9:13 pm
I believe the Hernandez Mustache shirt you are referring to is the t shirt from garkykeithandron.com – the sny booth guy’s website that sells tees and tickets to raise money for charities of their choices. it has a 17 with a mustache on it!
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By Misopogon, June 24, 2009 @ 8:19 am
http://www.pitchinforagoodcause.org/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=26&category_id=6&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=72
Thanks! This may warrant its own post. Such excellence…
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