Canada Day 2014

Friendly good wishes to all my Canadian truckbuddies today - Bonne fête du Canada!

And just for the eye candy, here's a clip of studly Toronto high-school teacher Joe Killoran confronting douchebag mayor Rob Ford this afternoon during a parade:



More info about Killoran at Joe.My.God.

Why Every Man Needs a Beard

Not to mention, beards are sexy as fuck.

And why should a man scrape his face smooth and bare like a woman's? Isn't that the very definition of unnatural?

Oh Hell Yeah

Via Towleroad:

Jack fucking Twist, get into my truck. NOW.

Waitin' for the Weekend

Waitin' for the Weekend

Waitin' for the Weekend

Bear Week in Provincetown

Frank - I'm like, so totally jealous of New England now.



Grin.

Got Stache?

When I mentioned Gillette yesterday when talking about my beard, they must have heard me in Boston, because it wasn't long before I saw a Gillette ad pop up.  But they have this facial styler thing that is pretty cool, I had fun with it.  You upload a face pic of yourself, and then it shows you what different stache/goatee/beard styles would look like on you - go try it.

Course, since I already have a beard, it didn't work that great in most cases.  Better you have a clean-shaven pic to work with.  But I always have wished I had a wider, thicker stache, a real Sam Elliott.

Only problem is, all Gillette can do is take hair off your face, not add it to.  Damn.  So much for this age of technological progress.

National Beard Month

David Traver of Anchorage, Alaska, won the World Beard and Moustache Championship for Team USA last May.  Very cool braids - imagine how long that took - but I prefer the natural look, myself.

I'm a week late posting this, but a reader tells me it's National Beard Month, so I reckon that's cause enough for celebration.  He doesn't sign his name, but he has a Facebook page where you can learn more about it.  I don't belong to that and can't get in over there, so I can't say anymore about it.  But I think it's a fine idea.

Actually for your Head Trucker, every month has been beard month since I was 21 years old.  Why grown men want to follow an indisputably unnatural practice and scrape their faces smooth like a girl's has always been more than I can understand.  Seems pretty damn queer to me.  Animals don't scrape off their natural coverings unless they are diseased or deranged, ya know?  And somewhere in Leviticus, the Bible says not to cut your beard off . . . you follow me, bud?

And if I ran the world . . . . oh well let's just say Gillette would be out of business in a hurry.

Does anyone second the motion?

Il Orso

This has been making the rounds of the gay blogosphere the last week, but in case you haven't seen it yet . . .



I love it for two reasons.  First, it reminds me of the similar, very famous, very funny scene from Longtime Companion.

And second . . . gawd, they're all just so verrry truckable.  Woof.

World Beard and Mustache Championships

Representing Alaska, Texas, Alaska,

Pennsylvania, and Florida, respectively

Gotta love it. These handsome guys give us great incentive, over and above patriotism, to root for Team USA at the World Beard and Mustache Championships, being held today in Anchorage, Alaska.

In your Head Trucker's opinion, a man's looks just aren't complete without some hair on his face. The more, the better, as a general rule. And if I ruled the world . . . oh well, never mind.

BTW, while we're on the subject of facial hair, here's an interesting gizmo for the goateed guy who has everything:

Canadian Cub: Dominic Leblanc

Been meaning to post this for a while now. During Canada's parliamentary crisis last month, New Brunswick MP Dominic Leblanc, 41, was a contender for the leadership of the Liberal Party.

He's one of those rare guys, IMO, who is just damn sexy even with a scraped face. Them pretty blue eyes and dark hair, mmm-mmm. But then I got to wondering just what he would look like with a beard. So I worked on that, and daaayum. See what I mean?

No doubt the guy's straight as a board - he's married with kids - but still, what a woofer. O Canada, how lucky you are!

We need some better looking pols down here south of the border, is what I say. Can't think of anyone we got in Congress who compares to this.