I first heard about Movember in October and thought that this would be an awesome way to not only grow a super sweet moustache and not take any flack for it, but it is also a great buzz marketing way to raise money for a cause that has affected my family and is near and dear to me.

To be honest, it started out as just a fun way to not have to shave.  I had no idea the reaction I would get from just growing a Moustache, but on this little Island I found people were really getting into it.  A lot of others started growing their own Moustaches and collected money for themselves for MOvember.  Not only did people learn about it in Antigua, but I also had people from Canada say that they heard about Movember through MoMoFoSho.com and had started their own fun way not to shave.  This buzz marketing effect is what its all about.  Although the main goal is to raise money for Prostate Cancer Research, it is also bringing awareness about the disease to the masses and letting people know that they should be checked for Prostate Cancer as it is 90% fixable if caught early.

I remember getting the first 2 donations from two girls, Vanessa and Chrissy, who I will say are good friends, but I had no idea they would be the first to donate.  To be honest, until they donated I had no idea if I could even get 1 person to donate to the Moustache Cause.  From those initial donations, it snowballed and half way through the month we had reached our first goal of $1000 USD in donations.  Along with these donations I learned a friend of mine actually has prostate cancer, which just made me feel like I was doing the right thing by raising awareness.

So once we had reached our first goal of $1,000 USD, I bumped up the new goal to $1500 by the end of Movember.  I won’t lie, the donations didn’t come as fast as the first half of the month, but I had faith that we would make it.

Yesterday, with a donation from my best friend from grade 2, John Boxall, donated $10 bringing the total to $1370.56.  I have to say I was stoked on this donation.  John and I were best of friends when we lived in Rossland as kids.  I can remember vividly when his family moved away, as a kid I was crushed.  Thank god for technology because in 2007 through facebook, I found my old best friend.  This kid is a genius, I swear, I think a lot of my friends are innovative and incredibly smart, but I know John has a bright future.  He is one of the founders of http://www.handimobility.ca/ and to me is a genius that can see into the future when it comes to technology.  Thanks John for that donation!

Yesterday was also our party “I Love Moustache” in Antigua.  I wasn’t to sure how this party was going to go.  It was next door to a Abracadabra’s costume party and these parties are always packed.  Around 10, we had 10 people at our party and at the peak we had about 40 people come by.  This was great!  I was so happy people came to support our party!  I loved the owners of the club that we held it at, Jill and Carolyn.  They both drew on two sexy Moustaches and helped us support the Mo and our cause!

The party was great!  In Antigua, all you get to hear is Dance Hall and Reggae.  I love Reggae as much as the next person but I also LOVE indie music and electro.  So my Mo Bro Sam and I played some awesome music and actually had people dancing to it!  Thats another accomplishment, that probably can only be accomplished with the power of a Moustache!

We set up a bucket at the bar and collected donations and we managed to raise $142 at the party pushing us over our $1500 goal right in the nick of time!

I have learned so much over the past month and have felt that I have helped accomplish something huge.  But MOvember isn’t about me, it is about everyone!  I want to take this time to thank everyone that has supported Movember!  Without you we couldn’t have raised over $12,000,000 world wide in a month.  So a round of applause for everyone for helping raise awareness and money for Prostate Cancer.

As I mentioned, Movember can be called a lot of things, but to me, it is definitely not the end of anything, but only the beginning.  

Happy Movember!

Greg

Love you guys and hope to see you soon!

Kyla's Dad for El Moustache Presidente

My Friend Kyla has come through in the final days of Movember to elect her dad AKA the originator for El Moustache Presidente.

So far we have 3 Candidates, DJ Drat, The Originator and Vanessa and Jen with the MoMoFoSho.com Sign Pictures.  There is only 2 days left to get any submissions in, the winner will win some awesome PalmerCash.com T-Shirts and a virtual high five from me!

Thanks Kyla for such an Awesomely Retro Submission and for supporting the mo!

Movember 28th

This week has been probably one of the most stressful weeks since I have moved to the Caribbean.  I won’t get into details, but sometimes people can boggle my mind on how they interact with other people, I think I fall into this category as well.  Sometimes it would be nice to have a camera on you all the time, recording what you do and say so you could analyze exactly what comes out of your mouth and how it is said.

This being said, Thank God It is once again Friday!  The fact that it is friday gives me so much joy this week.  Usually Friday is just another day, but today Friday is the end of a week that has made me lose hair.. and that is significant, as I don’t have much more hair left to lose

Another Reason its so exciting that it is Friday is Tomorrow is “I Love Moustache” at Life in English Harbour.  In Antigua, it is rare to have any other music played besides super commercial house music, dance hall, top 40 hip hop and reggae.  Now I am a fan of all of this music, but when its all you hear, you kind of go a little crazy (or at least I do).  So I am stoked to be able to hear some music that isn’t the normal here.

Now tomorrow night should be excellent, it will be a night that all the Antiguan Mo Bro’s and Mo Bro’s World Wide will be excited for.  It is the one night where we can put on our Moustache Display and show the world that together, united, we fight against Prostate Cancer.  We are kind of a Super Hero Team!

So let me introduce my Team to you!

Team Antigua: Caribbean Mo Bros UNITE! Left to Right: Chris "Hoff" Norton, Sam "The Wandering Nomad" Dickinson, Alex "Mongoose Face" Grimley, Didier "DJ Mo" DJ, Miguel "The Chopper" Somoza

 Having a Super Team, We also have our Super Mo Powers:

Name: Chris Norton

Also Known As: Hoff

Special Mo Power: The ability to seduce women with a flash of his finely groomed moustache.

Home Town: London, England

What a Mo Means to you: My mo is a like a symbol of pride and honour, it means that I don’t take my self to seriously and that I’m willing to fight the evil that is Prostate Cancer. 

What is your Mo Inspiration: My inspiration is a man called Alwyn Jordaan. He had a fine Mo but was forced to shave it off. Also mass props has to go out to Mr Greg Harrison, without him my Mo wouldn’t be today!

The Pretty One

Name: Sam Dickinson

Also Known As: The Wandering Momad.

Special Mo Power: Intergalactic-astral-moustache-projection. Essentially i can read your mind and tell your future using only the power of my mo’.

Home Town: Home is where moustache is.

What a Mo Means to you: In the constantly changing hyper-reality of the post-modern world it’s sometimes difficult to work out what the hell’s going on. I’ve always found that it’s useful to have a frame of reference, a constant to work from. Such a thing through it’s very existence in space and time organises the mind and makes order out of chaos. Like the hub of a wheel it forms a solid basis for things to spread out and function properly.
My moustache is my frame of reference, yes, my ‘tache is my hub. 

What is your Mo Inspiration: The greats i guess. In alphabetical order by first name:
Albert Einstein, Alex Karras, Alex Trebek, Billy Dee Williams, Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo), Burt Reynolds,Charles Bronson, Cheech Marin, Clark Gable, Dabney Coleman, Dan Dierdorf, David Crosby, David Niven, Dennis Farina, Dennis Hopper, Dick Butkus, Dick Van Dyke, Don Mattingly, Dr. Phil McGraw, Eddie Murphy, Eric Braeden, Errol Flynn, Frank Zappa, Freddie Prinze Sr., Freddy Mercury, Gabe Kaplan, Gene Shalit, Geraldo Rivera, Giancarlo Esposito, Groucho Marx, Hal Linden, Howard Keel, Hulk Hogan, Jack Black, Jamie Foxx, Jason Lee,Jeff Foxworthy, Jimi Hendrix, John Aniston, John Oates, John Stossel, John Waters, Keith Hernandez, Kurt Vonnegut, Little Richard, LL Cool J, Mario & Luigi, Mark Spitz,Martin Lawrence, Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Jordan, Mike Ditka, Mike Schmidt, Morris Day, Ned Flanders, Ossie Davis, Prince, Rafael Palmeiro, Reggie Jackson, Richard Petty, Richard Pryor, Richard Roundtree, Rip Taylor, Robert Goulet, Rollie Fingers, Ron Jeremy,Salvador Dali, Sam Elliot, Samuel L. Jackson, Sherman Hemsley, Sonny Bono, Swedish Chef, Ted Nugent, Tom Selleck, Tom Skerritt, Tony Orlando, Vincent Price, Wade Boggs, Weird Al Yankovic, Wilfred Brimley, William Conrad,Yanni, Yosemite Sam.

The Wild One!

Name: Miguel SoMOza

Also Known As: The Chopper

Special Mo Power: X ray vision

Home Town: Madrid, Spain

What a Mo Means to you: The six sense, the shield, the anti-virus, the top-gear, the 8th wonder of the world…that’s my mo…

What is your Mo Inspiration: My team, the Emerald City Mo Fro’s, my capitano el Julio, all the rest of my brave Mo Bro’s, every person that sponsor and put a penny or cent for the charity and every person that has suffer the ugliness of cancer.

The Strong but Silent One

Name: Didier DJ

Also know as: Dj MO

Special power: classified

Home town: Grasse, France

What a Mo means to you: respect to the people who come up with wicked ideas to raise money towards a good cause! May the Mo be with you

Mo inspiration: Greg and all my Mo bros

The Mysterious One

Name: Alex Grimley

A.K.A: Mo Mongoose face

Special Power: Magnetic moustache (girls with piercings watch out)

Home Town: Moville, Bounder region

What a Mo means to me: (sorry just read miguel’s… hahahaah, eighth wonder of the world - pure genius) 

Mine: The mo is a symbol of unity in the fight of prostate nastiness.. It also acts like a sexy frame to your face!

Mo inspiration: All the mo bro’s of India.. India is a country where all men have to grow moustaches or they are not respected as men! Most can grow them from the age of 10 years old and even some of the women are joining in the fun! I would also like to add my father as an inspiration…. he had one from his twenties to his fifties it changed colour over the years but the shape remained consistant….. he no longer has one but is most impressed by our efforts!

MO-ver and out

The Charming One

And Me:

Name: Greg Harrison

Also Known As: The Incredible Funk

Special Mo Power: The ability to rock the dance floor with his patented Moustache Break Dance Fighting moves. Villians beware, this is a deadly art form!

Home Town: Vancouver, Canada

What a Mo Means to you: My Mo is the symbol of Manlyness and defiance of the evil Prostate Cancer. It is worn for everyone that has ever had someone suffer at the hands of pure evil!

What is your Mo Inspiration: My Family, Friends and anyone that has ever been affected by Prostate Cancer!

The Self Appointed Leader!

With our Powers Combined, we create one of the best super hero teams ever to fight Prostate Cancer.  I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone that has supported us in our fight and it is our Code, wherever the evil prostate cancer is trying to pillage the world, THe Mo Bros will be there to help save the day!

As my Mo Bro Alex says ” Mo-over and Out”

Not Including this post I am now at 15,816 words this month written!

Not to bad, but with 5 days left, I am hoping I can pull some long posts out and get to 25,000, I think that is a respectable showing!

Now that the end of MOvember is coming, I have been so busy.  We have new employees in the office that I am helping, tons of projects that need to get done, I am going to the UK on tuesday and updating the blog has taken a small toll because of this… but I am doing my best people!

I am so stoked for Saturday.  I know our I Love Moustache Party is gonna be Hype!  

Till tomorrow Mo bros and Sisters, this cat needs his beauty sleep!

Dogs love Moustache!

Another day in Paradise, Gambling, Martial Arts, New Co Workers… All in a days work, and not in that order either.  The moustache has hit a new level of awesome.  Today I can now say I have experienced what experts call… “The Flavor Saver”.

My routine starts at 5:30, I wake up, let the dog out, eat my lucky charms, shower, walk the dog, feed the dog, get ready for work, brush my teeth, get my computer and run off to work to get there by 7am.

Today Was a bit different, I somehow in my sleep turned my alarm off - so luckily my good ol’ internal clock woke me up at 7:30, so I was running around trying to get to work as quick as possible.  Let the dog out, eat my breakfast, shower, walk the dog, feed the dog, started getting to work and then hopped in my car to work.. and thats when it happened.  I licked my lips and to my great suprise, tasted the minty freshness of my tooth paste in my flavor saved moustache!  Brilliant!

So I tested this new found power out at lunch when I went to the sticky wicket.  I had passion fruit juice and like clockwork, on the drive back to the office, I tasted the wonderful sweet taste of flavor saved Passion Fruit juice!

Although, I am loving my new found moustache power, I must say, this beast is getting itchy!  I am wondering if it stops itching after a while or if people just get used to the itch!

Another BIG thank you to my boss and good friend Rob!  Rob, thank you so much for donating to my extremely gross (and by gross I mean sexy) moustache, and for letting me sport it in the office.  In fact I think Rob takes great pride in knowing about my Moustache accomplishment!

Rob donated $100, which brings the total up to 1210.56!  We are ALMOST there people!! I really think we can make $1500 by Nov 30th!

Thanks again!

Lynn you have always been so generous I hope that some of it rubs off on me, I think you are an amazing person and have always looked up to you with your caring and generosity.  I honestly have learned from you that simple things always mean the most, like a card on your birthday, and even supporting growing a horribly gross (by gross I mean sexy) Moustache!

You are wonderful and I really love that you have helped support me in this great cause.  Come visit me down here, I’m sure you need a Caribbean Vacation!

Love ya!

I have to admit, I love people, I am a people person, but sometimes I LOVE just spending a night on my lonesome.  Friday was one of those nights.  Stayed in, ate junk food and played video games and watched tv till 4am just because I wanted to.

Saturday was a ridiculously great night.  Our German/Austrian country manager is in Antigua for the week and he flew in on Saturday.  So we took him out.  5 shots of jager each and a few mixed drinks with a beer or 3 to top it off, I should interject here and let you all know I get drunk off of 2 beer, it was a good night!  I love my friends in Antigua, they are so welcoming of new people and they all took Christian the Country Manager in with open arms and a drink in their hands to “Prost” the 6″6 tall Austrian man.

Saturday at Abras with good friend Manon!

Today, was wonderful and I wish I had brought my Camera to document the epicness that was today.  It was my friend Nick’s birthday and when it comes to birthdays on the island, all the expats come together to celebrate!  Today was no different.  It seems like when you have cheap alcohol, skilled people, and beaches where you can set up a giant sound system with djs, construct a tent out of wood and a tarp and BBQ and drink to your hearts content, it will always equal an amazing day.  Well that was today in a nut shell.  Perfectly sunny, waves were crashing and all our good friends were at Half Moon bay!  AND I FINALLY SPUN A REALLY GOOD DJ SET!!!!!  

I didn’t have my camera, but tons of pictures were taken, including some with me and my mo bro Sam!

This was an unreal weekend!  Makes me remember how sweet life really is!