Too late!
Also, I'm a non-white going for that jazz musician look...so I hope to get away with it.
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no-shave November 2018
- Thread starter twinjet
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Also, I'm a non-white going for that jazz musician look...so I hope to get away with it.
I'm sorry, then... I was assuming your ethnicity. Which seems pretty foolish now (well, anytime one is wrong with their assumptions).
Gaolee
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As a thoroughly generic white guy, I don't get away with much of anything except dork. I do that well. My wife is more melanin talented than I am, so our son can do the jazz musician thing. Actually, he is a jazz musician, so it fits. As I recall, it fits for you for the same reason. Given more time practicing and actually working on music, I might be a jazz musician, but it doesn't happen, so I'm not. I do dork well musically, too. No patch for me. So, there you have it, and it's all complete, verified factual truth, just like everything you read on TalkBass.
Not interested. I'd rather be clean-shaven, and have been since around 1973 other than my faaaaabulous pron-star moustache that I took off in the 90's.
And the last time I tried growing even two-week beard it appeared in a whole different color.....
If I want to look like a jazz musician, I have a couple of very nice black stingy-brim fedoras.
And the last time I tried growing even two-week beard it appeared in a whole different color.....
If I want to look like a jazz musician, I have a couple of very nice black stingy-brim fedoras.
No shaving for me until 24 December, when I'll do a Lemmy.
I’m lazy so i only get my face cleaned up when i get my hair cut. The rest of the time i keep a billy goat beard that starts under my nose and is a bit wider than my mouth before running off my chin. I pretty much stays in a taper to the bottom so i olny get it trimmed a few times a year. I clean up well enough but i have no reason to these days so it’s that much less i’ve got to deal with every day. As you can see i’m due a haircut and trim, but this is the usual for me.
I would do it, but I cannot, lest I shed whatever respect I have remaining with my peers. I have been blessed with incomplete facial hair. Here is my attempt from 2016...
I've had a neatly trimmed beard and mustache since I got out of the army in 1974. I never liked being told to shave.
It's a prostate cancer awareness campaign, normally. Though I suppose some folks may not have made the connection, as it's sometimes not well-publicized as such, which is kinda funny, since the whole point of it is that men are often unaware and/or not willing to talk about it, while breast cancer on the women's side (but not exclusively - didja know THAT? Men can get it) is a much more publically discussed disease with lots of awareness. Now, of the two, breast cancer will kill you quicker, on average, but Mr. Zappa was dead two years by the time he was my age.
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I'm officially in. Today is Wednesday, which coincides with the start of my work week, and it's also the last day of October. So, I shan't shave from here until circumstances deem that I shall.
I keep my goatee fairly neat, and it's going to stay that way, so in the spirit I'll post a photo from my college meal card from I think late 1979, before the first time I trimmed my beard. (Spring 1979 was the last time I saw my upper lip.)
