In the Name of the Father
We know we ask you guys to do a lot of stuff for us.
“Come to our site.”
“Share our posts.”
“Shave our backs.”
“Wire us money when we’re in jail.”
But today, we need your help because we’ve decided to pick a schoolyard fight with the biggest bully on the block: CANCER.
He was a handsome man. Mustache added for scale.Six years ago, I lost my father to cancer. It took 7 hours to get to his bedside. I told him softly that it was okay to go. I was there in the room when he passed. I felt the room change when he stopped breathing.
Today, I sit here, not as a spectator to cancer, but as a contestant in the frigging decathlon of cancers. I’ve lost 5 people close to me in three short years, including my last remaining grandparents.
This year we’re doing something about it. We’re growing Mustaches.
We’re participating in Movember, a charity devoted to raising vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancers and other cancers that affect men by getting men to sport their “MO’s” as a sign of solidarity for the entire month of November.
I bet you were wondering where all the Magnum PI and Burt Reynolds lookalikes came from? Well, you can blame one charity organization.
Please donate whatever you can, in my father’s honor and in honor of anyone you’ve lost to this ridiculous malady: DONATE HERE.
In closing, here’s my OPEN LETTER to CANCER EVERYWHERE:
Dear Cancer,
You f*cking wuss. You don’t stand a chance because you’re a coward and liar. Meet me on my Movember page, Cancer.
You suck,
Charlie
Charlie
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24 Responses to “In the Name of the Father”
Amen Charlie! I lost my dad to cancer too, in 2007. Unfortunately I wont be growing a stache this Movember because (a) my upper lip scarf is a thin whiskery abomination and (b) I have a post-doc interview later this month. I’ll donate to the cause though. Show cancer who’s boss.
Thanks for donating. It doesn’t have to be much. Just a showing of that fact that we remember and we give a crap. Know what I mean?
I lost my father when I was 15 and unfortunately a number of friends and relatives through the years. I’ll be sporting my stach! F U cancer…..we are fighting back.
SPORT THAT STACHE!!! F U CANCER!!
Cancer can choke on a bag of dicks. Asshole.
This comment is perfection.
I lost my dad to cancer when I was 5 and the treatments in those days were truly atrocious so my dad spent the last 2 years in hospital on and off.
I fucking hate cancer!
Ridiculous. Isn’t it? Enough is enough.
F##K CANCER!!! EAT PUDDING MADE OF DISEASED RAT S##T MIXED WITH HYDROCHLORIC ACID FROM A BROKEN BOTTLE A BUM USED TO PISS IN, CANCER!!!!
Don’t hold back, Andy. Say what you feel.
Every time someone stares at my budding ‘stache, cancer winces.
My stache will be so ugly cancer will wish it had never been born.
I lost my grandmother, grandfather, and YOUNG sister in law all in August last year. I was a live in grandaughter the last 2 mos of my grandmother life & saw up close what an a**hole cancer is. Im all for Movember but im afraid i cannot grow the stash. For one,testosterone is expensive. And im not sure my husband would appreciate my hate for cancer as much if i looked somewhat like a dude. But anyhow, sorry for your loss & ill continue supporting cancer research. Lets kill this b*tch C!
Donation hath be made. Make it happen, Charlie! I want to see handle bars, or little beads on the ends.
You are a saint MotherDuck. Thank you.
Saint of ROCKSTARS!
Donation made. I lost my Dad in 2008 to cancer. I can’t grow a mustache, but I won’t pluck the stray hairs on my toes for a month. Hubby will be so proud??
We love you. Cancer hates you. All is right with the world and toe hairs. THANK YOU!
I wish i had cash to make a donation, but as a single dad it’s hard to come by. However to support Movember. Me and a friend decided to have a NO SHAVE November of our own. My work won’t let me have just the “mo” so full beard it is.. Or i guess in my case patchy beard.
This is totally AWESOME! I came across your site looking for dad’s who “rock the casbah” and yours is the real deal. And, because I have zero ‘stache-abilities, (seriously lame ability to grow a mo’), I’m donating instead. Keep up the great work!
Guess who’s rocking the casbah? You! We say “Thank you” and Cancer says “Damn you!” waving its maniacal tumor fist towards the heavens.
Also, did you see the shout out we did to your smartyparents account from our Twittertron?
Dudes. How about whipping up some “Free Mustache Ride” t-shirts with the HTBAD logo on them? I’d buy one.
I am sorry, but I can’t not share this.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/11/18