Beards

I've totally written about this before but I continue to love men with beards. Saw this dude at the A's/Red Sox game on Sunday (he was also wearing a kind of funny hat) and really, I cannot explain my extreme attraction. Anyway, so in a related note I really appreciate this dude who is trying to grow "all types of beards." I feel like he is not playing entirely by the rules because sometimes he grows a full one and then shaves off bits to make a moustache, instead of growing just the moustache. But that is because I am a weird advocate for facial hair (best realization of the weekend, of which there were many: Friday night, while at dinner with my friend and his parents, I saw fit to text my friend Justin and tell him "BTW, I love your moustache." I have no idea why, and I was not drunk either, so there's no excuse for my lack of remembering the reason for this). Anyway this is pretty amusing, mostly because you can see how facial hair totally changes the look of someone's face! Like, look at the soul patch (how nerdy, ew) compared to the Van Dyke (like, hello, ew, looks like a criminal) compared to the Zappa (charmingly nerdy in a way I can't explain) compared to the everything. It's worth a look.

Beards

Can't say what it is but I'm sort of into guys with beards lately. Is that weird? I think it kind of is and I can't really name any examples per se, but I just feel like a good beard really does the trick sometimes. Anyway, this is all just a segue into posting about how I think Conan O'Brien looks good with a beard.

I haven't watched Conan in years, but even without writers he can still do that crazy little dance at the beginning of the monologue, which, let's face it, is pretty much my favorite part about his show anyway. The beard makes his hair look even poofier, which may be the only slight downside. Go here to watch his monologue from last week's return.

There was also a funny article about "strike beards" in this week's New Yorker. (Yes, that same issue.) I know for a fact that B.J. Novak had a beard last month because he went to the Facebook holiday party and that's the report I got -- but it's unclear if he's also doing that for the strike or if it's just maintaining his Corporate Ryan look.

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