This has been a crazy past few weeks.. and I don’t mean crazy busy, I mean insane. Upon a dare from my younger brother I grew a mustache out this month, along with him. (I believe his actual words were, “You can’t do it, you woman!”) So, of course I had to.

The beginning of the growth meant I had a choice of what I wanted to do, or what type of look I wanted to have. With the mustache enjoying new popularity.. the decision was tough. So I decided on the “Tombstache” or what I dubbed the mustaches enjoyed by Val Kilmer and Kurt Russell in Tombstone. To have the look of a rogue and leave the presupposition of the scary guy cruising chat rooms and ending up on Dateline.

Over the course of the past few weeks an odd thing was happening, initially I was apologetic to people about my “Trained Caterpiller” but after a time it wasn’t that important to me. There were a few brushed with Danger though, when recently seeing X3 at the midnight showing at my local Movieplex - I was fitting in too well with the rest of the Nerd Herd, lucky for me I didn’t go it alone. The other was on Memorial Day, I visited Best Buy to check the sales. I was just doing swhat I normally do… bring in my reward zone free money coupons and see if there is anything I’d be interested in buying.

When I first got in I grabbed the circular and made my way around and then the first find - Superman II on DVD for 8 bucks, SWEET! I walked around a little more and then the DVD for Black Sheep 4 bucks, wow this is great. Then it hits me. I’m buying old comic book and stoner movies walking around the media section of Best Buy whilst wearing a mustache… oh man, abort, ABORT! I quickly paid in what had to have been one of the most awkward cashing out exchanges I’ve ever had.

But overall, the experience wasinteresting to wear a mustache for a little less than a month. It’s definitely a gut check every morning when the face in the mirror asks, “Are you really leaving the house like that?” I would encourage anyone (as long as your a guy) to grow your mustache and watch the world change.