Some sad news has reached us at beard towers. You all remember Boz don't you, he was our first guest beard. Well here is his progress so far;

Boz attemprs to join his beard with his chest-wig

"What's bad news about that?" I hear you cry. Wait until you see what Boz writes:

"Here's a picture of my beard so far. Unfortunately I am now going to have to shave it off. F**k the war. I'm fighting a different war. It's a war on the streets. A fashion war. And this beard is a tool of the enemy."

Having walked the tough streets of Leicester myself, I can only sympathise and offer our comiserations. A minutes silence please for Boz, the first casualty of our war.

Here at beard central, we recieve many fascinating e-mails on an almost monthly basis. Today we recieved this little gem;

Dear Beards for Peace,
I have been following your mission over the last couple of weeks, and I applaud your efforts. However, while all this guff about strange American religions and photoshopped adverts is all very well, where the hell are the beards!?

Good point, well made I feel. So well made that we finally put some batteries in the digital camera. So, some 12 days in, here is the progress so far.

Guy takes a moment to contemplate the horrors of war

Good coverage eh?

No, I don't know what I think I look like either.

Now how stylish is that?

So there you go. Mystery over. Once you've stopped gawping at us (oi! I said stop!) why not play a game involving beards. It is wonderful, and made by rob, who has so far ignored my requests to link to it, so I'm doing it anyway. So there. (Hi Rob!)

Don't forget to check back soon for our next guest beard, and more importantly, don't forget to mail us.

More strangeness. On one of my regular trawls around the interweb I came across Blissisnow. These guys seem to be just your common, all-garden, pseudo Buddist nutcases. Nothing to make them stand out there you might say, but you'd be wrong, for as part of their no-mark sub-philospophical ramblings they have unwittingly created a work of genius. The National Beard Registry is a place where men may take pride in throwing off the shackles of socieites conventions by growing a beard. For those of you who never open the links, shame on you, and this is what they have to say on the subject;

"The National Beard Registry has been established to encourage men in all walks of life, from every continent, to resist conformity, corporate culture, and androgeny by embracing the beautiful, unique and utterly personal habit of growing a full beard.

Today, wearing a full beard is often looked down upon and discouraged. Men with full beards are now accused of being un-patriotic, whatever that is. How silly we have become!

All beards are beautiful and worthy of registration. But the majestic and magnificent full and aged beard is the ultimate quest of The National Beard Registry. Like a fingerprint, a year or more of full growth on a man's face produces a one-of-a-kind appearance that defies trend, pop culture, and media driven conformity. It is a very natural and beautiful symbol of individualism, and honors the self-expressed manhood within each man."

Indeed..........

Aside from that, they also have a gallery of famously hairy intellectuals and writers, from Confucious and Zeus, through to Jim Morrison. So what the hell I wonder, is this man doing in there?

Isn't that Uncle Jessie off The Dukes of Hazard?

These people seem to think Uncle Jessie is worthy of inclusion in the same catagory as Karl Marx and Jesus. I'm sure Bo and Luke would be very proud.