While this is billed as a documentary about "biking" across some mythical land called "Canada," it is truly a tragic tale of the life and death of a Sweet Beard.

The Cross Canada Project: Documenting a Bicycle Tour Across Canada from mike beauchamp on Vimeo.

Not that any additional evidence to support point number one on the reasons to grow a sweet beard page is needed, but here it is anyway.

I'd like us all to review this excellent entertainment product. It's refreshing to find America's thespians engaged in beard awareness.

Logging in to SweetBeard from your phone to update can be a pain. Especially since Apple provides no way to upload photos from Safari. Fear not, a brand new feature has been added to make updates easy on the go! Just email your pictures (from the email address you set up with your account) to mobilesweetbeard.com. The email subject will become that update's comments, and since Apple in their infinite wisdom decided that only one picuture can be sent per email, all pictures sent within a 5 minute window will be part of the same update. So on the iPhone, just take a picture of your Sweet Beard's progress and email it to mobilesweetbeard.com, and you're done. Should work with any device that can send an email too, but it's only been tested on the iPhone.

A year ago this month a movement was born. Not a movement of base political agenda, but a restructuring of the mind. A few chose to loose the chains of oppression, breaking free that which was restrained. I write of course of the Sweet Beard. In the beginning there was excitement. New faces ready for change, new websites ready for faces, a new take on an old idea. Fresh faced in the best sense of the word, many sprang forth to test their skills in pogonotrophy, some tested many times. Now that our one year anniversary approaches, I ask the faithful to return and offer testimony in a sacred JPEG-based pilgrimage. My plan is to shave off my sweet beard and start again, to revive my faith. So: on November 15th, let the growing begin... again.
Spread the Word.

Barring (punny) a miracle, later this evening the United States will have elected a new president. And like so many presidents in recent memory this one will scrape all hair off his face with cold regularity. Not since Taft has a man even dared have a moustache in the Oval Office. The last U.S. president to rock a completely sweet beard was Benjamin Harrison. The 1900s were totally bereft of sweetly bearded leaders. It's no wonder we've had such catastrophic war and tumultuous markets over the last 120 years. That's right: 120 years since the bountiful leadership skills of a beard have shown their impressive capabilities in our nation's highest office. To this I say shame. Shame on the ignorant Americans who choose to elect those who hide their beards behind faces.

Mates, today is a right special day. Many years and bottles o' rum has fallen betwixt it's conception and this the present, but International Talk Like a Pirate Day it be again, and may it be finer than evarr. It be long established in the pirate community that a beard be the principal, and rightly only acceptable facial configuration. As this be a mighty fine site to generate one's own exquisite beard, it may now be time best to commence a walk of the pirate walk, in accession to the aforementioned talk.