El Dia Del Mustache

Burt just phoned in from the ski chalet with a reminder for everyone:

“Don’t blow it.”

We can only assume he’s referring to this Saturday’s historic celebration of El Dia Del Mustache 7. As always, the jams officially kick of at 3PM. REMEMBER: WE ARE NOT HOLDING THE EVENT AT NO IDEA. We’ve switched venues to the significantly scummier Port 41. Details below. Nominations will be given out by the board in the usual categories: Best in Show, Dad Stache, Molester Stache, Novelty Stache and Shitty Stache. Voting kicks off around 5 or 5:30. Don’t worry if you don’t win top honors—you’re a winner just for having a mustache. See y’all Saturday.

El Dia del Mustache 7
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Port 41
355 W 41st St
(btw 8th & 9th Aves)
New York, NY 10036

As if the majesty of El Dia Del Mustache wasn’t blowing your balls off already, along comes the official t-shirt, available only to those who come out for the day of days:

El Dia del Mustache 7
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Port 41
355 W 41st St
(btw 8th & 9th Aves)
New York, NY 10036

It’s the perfect accompaniment to a bushy top lip and a must-own for El Dia completists. It’ll cost you $20, with all proceeds going to charity.

Ten days to go. Make ‘em count.

Our little follicle fest has just received a shout out from the fine gentlemen at International Mustache Month. Check it out!

International Mustache Month officially kicked off on Super Bowl Sunday and is the kind of initiative The Board can get behind. During the month of February, you’re encouraged to grow the nastiest, meatiest beard that your genetic predisposition will possibly allow. On February 28th, you buzz it all off leaving only the hair that sits atop your upper lip so that you and others may bask in its glory. Goatees, soul patches and other garnishes are strictly prohibited, of course.

It’s the perfect lead-in to El Dia and The Board couldn’t be happier to have an organization of such likeminded individuals to help us spread the gospel of the ’stache.

And in case you forgot, the day of days is nearing ever closer:

El Dia del Mustache 7
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Port 41
355 W 41st St
(btw 8th & 9th Aves)
New York, NY 10036

Be there, or be dead.

Formally Announcing El Dia Del Mustache 7

NEW LOCATION FOR 2009!

Hear ye, hear ye.Has the daily grind left ye battered and broken? Is the current economic downturn shattering your spirit as well as your savings? Well, there’s only one cure for what ails you, and that’s a mustache.

On March 28th, 2009 @ 3PM, bring your finest face follicles (no beards, goatees or fu-manchus) on down to Port 41 - the scummiest bar New York City has ever known, and the only place suitable for hosting the Greatest Show on Earth. We’re, of course, referring to El Dia Del Mustache 7. As you veterans well know, the last four El Dias have been held at No Idea bar on 21st street. But frankly, friends, our little soiree has outgrown the place. In search of a worthy replacement, your El Dia board members launched an exhaustive search across the isle of Manhattan. It was a search filled with many highs and lows, and it doesn’t get any lower than Port 41. This dump is a wart on the assneck of humanity. It’s everything we could ever ask for and more…

Cheap tall boys? Check.

Free hot dogs? Check.

Buckhunter? Check.

Bartenders in bikinis? Check.

A giant Hippopotamus head on the wall? Check.

Homeless ne’er-do-wells lurking in corners and sleeping in booths? You bet.

People, this bar is an authentic Hell’s Kitchen dive — Rudy’s is like the Waldorf Astoria compared to Port 41. But don’t take our word for it. Come see for yourself on Saturday, March 28, 2008. While you’re there, compete for prizes, buy a t-shirt for charity and bask in the company of like-minded souls. Most importantly, INVITE EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

WHAT:
El Dia del Mustache 7

WHEN:
Saturday March 28, 2009

WHERE:
Port 41
355 W 41st St
(btw 8th & 9th Aves)
New York, NY 10036

See here for official mustache growing rules.

Sincerely,
 The Board.

It’s been nearly a year since 2008’s epic El Dia bash last Marzo - plenty of time for your ’stache to recharge for ‘09. Come one, come all, for the seventh installment of the greatest haberdashery of manliness the world has ever known.

El Dia del Mustache 7!!!

When:  March 28, 2009 - 3PM

Where:  TBD (most likely No Idea Bar NYC)

Start now.  The cold weather is conducive to awesome, and we have very little time.  Wear a goatee to a baby’s birthday.  Grow a beard for a southern hemisphere vacation.  Wear a mustache on the bus we know you ride to work for the next two and a half months.  Just get it done.  Please pass the news along to all friends and followers of the mustache.

Yours truly, The Board

Thanks to everyone who attended El Dia Del Mustache 6, which by all accounts was the best, most attended El Dia in history. Keep checking back here in the next few days for photos, and please send photos and links to photos to us at theboard[at]eldiadelmustache.com

The Day of Days is upon us! Tomorrow, the gods of good times will smile upon every soul that passes through the hallowed front doors of No Idea. For tomorrow, friends, is El Dia Del Mustache 6. We told you to grow it and now’s your chance to show it. Festivities officially kick off at 3PM. Be there or be unawesome.

The Board.

Higgins?

Calm down, old friend. Yes, I’m fully aware that El Dia Del Mustache is THIS SATURDAY! I’ve been waiting my whole life for the greatness that will unfold. Exhibit A: The work of art I’ve sculpted on my face my entire career as a Hawaii-based P.I. formerly of Detroit.

What’s that, old boy? You want to make sure I tell everyone the when and where? No problem:

What: El Dia Del Mustache

When: Saturday March 8th, 3PM until whenever

Where: No Idea Bar, E 20th St b/w Park and B’way

Why: For manliness. And for charity.

OK. Anything else, Higgins? Well, actually, I’m not wearing a shirt, but I don’t really see how that’s relevant…

To our female friends of El Dia del Mustache:

We don’t want you to make you feel left out. So, come March 8, why not try a fake mustache? It won’t make you eligible for any competitive categories, but at least you’ll look and feel more natural drinking out of a those 16 oz. cans of Schaefer that have become so synonymous with our event. Just follow these simple instructions from a Halloween how-to video we dug up on the old YouTube. Look how thrilled our heroine looks as her faux facial hair is applied!

NOTE: To any men thinking of wearing a fake ‘tache to El Dia — think again. Let’s keep it on the up and up, fellas.

Cheers.

Until puppies learn to groom their own facial hair, the words “cute” and “mustache” don’t ever belong in the same sentence together. That is unless you’re talking about the Pocket ‘Stache, a 6-inch mustache doll featuring a plush exterior, two eyes and, according to creator Shawn Smith, a microscopic mustache of its own.

Smith’s Pocket ‘Stache is actually the third in series of stuffed upper-lip inhabitants. His first was stitched together in 2002. It was a much bigger version of the Pocket ‘Stache and was called, simply, Moustachio. In ‘05, Smith sewed up a smaller, darker mustache creature he called Son of Moustachio. Pocket ‘Stache is his latest and most portable creation to date.

A Pocket ‘Stache can be purchased for just $7 off of Smith’s site. OR, you can come to this year’s El Dia event and win one for FREE. That’s right, Shawn Smith has donated five Pocket ‘Staches to El Dia Del Mustache to be given away to the winners of our five competitive categories. The Best in Show winner will also walk away with the original Moustachio doll, which has long been sold out on Smith’s site.

Check out the full story of Moustachio here, and be sure get your ass to No Idea Bar on March 8, 2008. Greatness is nigh.