Mo, tash, ‘stache, lip caterpillar, slug, even snickering cockroaches (as a pitiful poet once called Stalin’s). Call it what you will, the mustache comes with a fair dollop of history -- and mirth -- wherever it grows. From Magnum PI-styled symbol of virility to Borat-esque nose-tickler, the mustache shouts "pride" louder than most hairstyles. And nowhere is man's dedication to the hirsute upper lip more apparent than in India.
Nice stache, Jerry! Nice stache, Marshall! Today Stacheforge is honored to feature its first father-and-son mustache team. Marshall says that it was his father's idea to shave down to matching pencil mustaches. Readers will remember the first time we featured Marshall, he sported a bell-bottom trucker stache as shown in the "before" picture, and the look on his face suggests he was apprehensive about giving it up. That is understandable because mouthbrows can be hard to grow and hard to make look good. Luckily, the look on his face in the 'after' picture suggests he was happy with the change and nobody can deny that the Begel boys have what it takes to rock this under-appreciated mustache style.
ran for a third time in 2003 and was narrowly defeated by current incumbent Dave Cieslewicz -- who, let it be said, does not have a mustache. The two men are in a sort of rematch in the current mayoral race for which elections will be held on April 5, 2011.
back in style, they are back from last time they were in style, in the 1970s, when Paul was in college, which apparently is when that caterpillar first climbed onto Paul's lip. Although many of his peers chickened out and shaved when the style passed, Mr. Soglin dedicated his face to that bad boy. Soglin's 'stache shares something in common with Soglin's suits: although each evolved with the vagaries of fashion, each are a lasting part of Paul Soglin's look. 
His mustache became wider at times, and more trim at times. When some salt was dropped into the salt-and-pepper color, Paul proudly wore it like a champion, like a silverback gorilla -- although, ironically, silverback gorillas do not grow mustaches.
Mr. Soglin has been well known in Madison as an activist since his college days, and is well respected for improving the city during his stints as mayor. In the opinion of Stacheforge, however, none of that is as important as the constancy and respect that Soglin's mustache brings to the city of Madison. As we wait for the April election to see whether the people of Madison elect Soglin mayor, Stacheforge endorses that mustache as candidate for awesomeness.
