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.

While beards are enjoyed all over the world, Sweet Beard's headquarters are located in Northern Virginia. As such we have quite a few Redskin fans who patronize the site. That's why we're so happy to hear No. 47 Chris Cooley is taking up the cause and growing a sweet beard in training camp this season. If only the rest of the team participated, the 'skins would be unstoppable without question. Maybe that should be another point on the reasons to grow a Sweet Beard: Ability to rock sporting events at unprecedented levels.

Typically I reserve my political views for myself. However, in this case I feel that an important US presidential candidate is being ignored, and it's our duty as facial hair evangelists to do what we can. So, setting self censorship aside for a moment I want to introduce you to Bob Barr, the 2008 Libertarian Party candidate for president, and exclusive facial hair owner in the bunch. Facial hair says a lot about a man, while Barr doesn't have a Sweet Beard like some of you, he is obviously more of a free thinker than the other two candidates. If you have the choice between a naked face and a Stached face in the oval office, the choice should be clear. I hope you'll join me in screwing the two party system and promoting pogonotrophy by voting for Bob Barr this November.

In the beginning of the Church of Pogonotrophy it was written in the Great Blog that there would come a man who could grow more than one beard at a time. This man could in fact cause three separate beards to spring forth with such parallel fury it requires three faces to grow. So potent in his evangelism would this man be that a Sweet Beard T-shirt would be his for the taking. Silenced be the naysayers. Verily, the first has come, and there shall be more.

Remove the blade from your jugular, it's not as terrifying as it sounds. Not the removal of beards, just a little comparison shopping. Check out the montage page of any user to see what I mean. It only works between users who have multiple pics in their history and of course will not make much sense when comparing beards to evangelism. I'm not going to fix those issues unless my boss complains and I'm my own boss.

Jesus, Castro, Mohammed, Lincoln, Morrison, Marx. What do these leaders of men have in common? Beards. Yet put any three of them in a room and violence will most likely ensue. It has to stop. That's why we at SweetBeard.com have taken it upon ourselves as carriers of beards - thereby implicit leaders of men - to expand the ChoP to include a Stop Beard on Beard Violence message for you our members to distribute. Together we can not only heal shorn faces, we can create everlasting peace.

There's a reason we call our server crashed. It does. A lot, usually suddenly and inexplicably. No matter. SweetBeard has been moved to another server which should prove a s midge more reliable. The bad news is a couple of weeks worth of data was lost in the process since I'm not much for "backing things up." So if you created an account in the dead zone fear not! This is a prime opportunity to experience the unspeakable joy of signing up to be a member all over again. It's also a great time to print out some Sweet Beard Tracts™ for the Church of Pogonotrophy. Edit: crashed came back and I sync'd the data. Joy returns to the forest --3/ 11

Ahh St. Valentine's day. A celebration of early martyr's and 20th century massacres. A time to take your significant other, or potential sign ificant other out on the town, letting credit card debt fall where it may, impressing them with everyone's favorite aphrodisiac: money. Your beard will appreciate it, and yo ur girlfriend will understand. After all, she can go out with you anytime. Valentine's day comes but once a year. Spend it with your beard.

Sure the Sweet Beards Book is still in its infancy, but I' d like to think with enough Evangelism it could be a best seller. Remember kids. Tell your friends.

Sweet Beard is pleased to have brought beards into the world over the last little while. We hope it has changed the minds and hearts of the growers behind the beards as well. A renewal, rebirth, an amplification and a justification of what it means to live.

We cannot hide this light. Friends, it is time to spread the good news! If you could convince just one other person to grow a sweet beard, wouldn't it be worth it? Wouldn't it be worth a few minutes of your time, a few reprints of your nation's currency, a few drops of your blood, or yes, your very life?

Of course it would.

Have you ever thought about a religion? One that didn't care if you fooled around with another religion? A religion that said "hey man, you're okay. Why don't you grow a beard and maybe win a T-shirt or other fabulous prizes?" Sweet Beard wants to bring you just that. Join the Church of Pogonotrophy (ChoP) and spread the gift of beardery to your face, and the faces of all who will listen!

May 2008 and all years thereafter be called the year of the beard!

Exciting things are afoot at SweetBeard headquarters. Beard growth was step one. The new year will mark the coming of expanded scope, broadened horizons, the stretching of w hat we can avcheive, yes perhaps even . . . . Social . . . Networking . . . More on that later. In the mean time please feel free to visit the SweetBeard store, and get your grubby little paws around some sweet beard swag.

It's been almost 4 weeks. According to Beards.org it's time for that first trim. Sure some of you may hav e trimmed prematurely and some may not yet be ready, but its officially okay now. The Man&re g; is starting to notice. Starting to sweat. Who are these people that dare increase their sweetness to unprecedented levels? How dare they rock the establishment like s o many hurricanes in so many small, but intimate venues? So fine, trim that beard up. They can take away the scraggliness, but they can't take away the sweetness. That's bui lt into every beard we carry.

Welcome to the end of week three. I see a lot of beards and a lot of happy faces. Transformations of the mind and revolutions of the face. This time of year in particular the clean shaven, string laden puppets of The Man™ would have you believe that beards aren't cool. They would suggest happiness comes f rom gift giving, receiving, and above all consuming, the products of other beardless actors for the sole benefit of the bottom line. Happiness came niether from the creation of the products nor will it come from the consumption thereof. Happiness comes not from material things, happiness is delivered in beard sized boxes.

Our real live original server came back today! As soon as DNS settles down we should have sweetbeard running at full capacity and not greedily swindling resources from friends. Sure it could be a seamless transition, but where's the fun in that? Your mileage may vary, but in the next couple of days the response time should be noticeably quicker . Keep those updates coming, I've noticed a lot of truely sweet beards emerging and its only been a week! Imagine the lives that could be changed in six weeks.

As we come to the close of this our first week of growing, I think we should all take pause to mentally reflect on our many blessings. Each blessing that spings forth from our face, however short or patchy, reflects back to us in the very physical mirrors of our bathrooms. It's a time to ponder other patchy things: pumpkins for instance. A pumpkin grows in a patch, and much like the hair on a man's face it can be orange, and that's okay. I hope the holiday will give our pogonotrophists the rest they so desperately need, and the vitamins and minerals consumed in turkey, gravy, pie, television, sleeping, a little extra dressing since you're passing by, turkey sandwiches, and other forms will nourish the seedlings of hope that are our whiskers. The Indians would have wanted it this way. The Pilgrims had it this way, and even God suggests it.

"Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard"
-- friggin God, by way of Leviticus

The day is upon us! Everyone check in with baby faced slickness as soon as possible, which since the site had to move servers and is semi to completely broken, will maybe be closer to the end of the day today. Duct tape, band-aids, and chewing gum have all been extensively utilized to get things working as well as they do now, but more work could be done. If you haven't already, create a profile, set your goal configuration and date, and blog the crap out of us, or whatever it is the Web x.0 kids are doing these days. Join up and get growing.

"Not I," said the cat. So really, more stuff was added, and we didn't say it would be up until the 15th. So there.

I know, I know, I suck. I really wanted a sweet, sweet 70s theme for the site but it get to hard to find items and ideas to inspire me. Now I've tried to go for a simpler look. One that is less busy on the eyes. Or as Maverick put, "the brown like poop color". Whatever. Most beards are brown. So this website is brown. If I get a wild hair up my ass or become overly creative, I'll make a 70s theme.

Most people already want a beard, but we understand that some of the public has been misled by the liberal media. For those few we offer a justification page backed by hard science.

We want YOU to have a sweet beard and show us how it came to be.