An idea whose time has come.

[mrissa]

I have mostly steered clear of controversial political issues in this lj, but a friend's post has made me aware that there is an issue on which I can no longer in good conscience keep silence.

To wit: playoff beards. I am for 'em. Let there be no confusion: distinctly in favor. Brent Burns looks like a demented hillbilly in his, to be sure, but Burnsie looks like a demented hillbilly under most circumstances, so that harm is outweighed by the great joy that is everybody else's playoff beard.

In fact, while I'm enjoying the NHL playoffs a great deal more than I am enjoying or expect to enjoy the PotUSA playoffs (though with equal doubts, I suspect, about the officiating), I would like to suggest that people could grow playoff beards for that as well. Don't shave until your team wins the...well, it's not as cool as the Stanley Cup, but if you don't bother to learn to play hockey, you can't really expect it. But the US Presidency, at least, which has a few consolations despite its distinct lack of Stanley Cup. And if you don't have a team in this particular set of playoffs, you could still grow a playoff beard in support of those who do, and sort of to add to the pleasant parts of the spectacle of the thing. At least for me personally, and isn't that what's important here?

People whose beards look as though someone snuck in while they were sleeping and drew on their face with a cheap Bic pen and then ran away when it looked like they were waking up are exempt from this exhortation, I suppose. I suppose.

Also, nobody is strictly required to buy a Life of Brian style beard for my amusement. No. Definitely not a requirement.

Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Was Anne's House of Dreams among your recent comfort rereads, by any chance?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

No....

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

It has the character Marshall Elliott, who hasn't shaved or cut his hair since a bitter election years before. When his party finally wins (can't remember if it was the Grits or Tories) he finally shaves, and Miss Cornelia promptly marries him, having flat refused previously to marry a "perambulating haystack like that".

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was one of my least favorite things about Miss Cornelia.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

that was totally ridiculous! and i liked her, too.