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Nov.1,2008
I decided I did not have time for NaNoWriMo this year. Too intense, too much work. This year, I’m going to join the ranks of my fellow passive underachievers during How Not To Grow A Beard Month, or HoNoToGroABeMo for short.
This is the brain child of Kris Johnson, a mild mannered fellow who farms a small plot of land in one of the flyover states…Indiana, or Pennsylvania, I believe. He started it last year when he decided, in defiance of generations of Finnish genetic heritage, not to shave for a month. This was the final result. “Henceforth,” he declared, “let the eleventh month be a time of contemplation, when, razor free, all men shall attempt to get scruffy and look like Chuck Norris on a bad day.”1
And so, in a fit of solidarity, I shaved off my hard-earned whiskers. (Before, after) This month, I’ll be joining some of my friends as we see what happens when we allow ourselves to get funky wi’ the facial hair. Or lack thereof. Take your pick.
I’ll be posting pictures regularly. No…wait…come back. They’ll be small. There, there…stop trembling. It’ll be alright.
Oh, brave new world that has such things in it.
It’s cold in here.
- I’m paraphrasing, of course.[back]
Tags : Chuck Norris, HoNoToGroABeMo, Indiana, Kris Johnson, Pennsylvania
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I had to look twice to make sure it was you. Weird. Maybe you should grow it back and just get a haircut…think of the children. I’m just saying.
You look so YOUNG without it!
I’m afraid I have to correct you on one point: Chuck Norris doesn’t have bad days. If Chuck Norris feels that a day isn’t going the way he likes, he simply roundhouse kicks the world and it starts to spin backward, reversing time until Chuck finds a spot he likes to start over again, then he does another roundhouse (in the opposite direction, naturally) to start time flowing forward again.
Should you be farming your small plot?
Wait…you’re not doing Nano this year, right?