https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfLiZup6PCY
I like TV shows with the implied violence of the word “War” in their names—Cupcake Wars, Monster Bug Wars. And I like beards. So I’m going to watch Whisker Wars, the new documentary series that starts tonight at 11pm on IFC. It’s all about competitive beard-growing (or “bearding”) and the super-serious competitions that have sprung up around the… hobby? art? sport?
I’m also planning to watch it because I like beards. (No, not like Renee Zellweger). One of my first media crushes was Dan Haggerty from the Grizzly Adams movies and subsequent TV show. I didn’t understand that it was a crush at the time or why I was so fascinated by his unruly mountain-man facial hair, I just had this idea that it would feel great to touch.
Now that I’m grown-up I realize that I’m part of the least stringently regulated club on earth. Gay guys into beards are as unique as rocks on a beach. In fact, now that the overall trend in men’s grooming leans toward having facial hair, my enthusiasm is a full-blown contemporary cliche. I can couch it in anthropological interest if I want, quote from from the book One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair if I have to, but the truth is that I simply think men with beards are hot.
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Now if only the guys on Whisker Wars were eating the cupcakes from Cupcake Wars while fighting giant insects…
Mustache Wax
This show is amazing! when are they going to show it in the UK