In Your Face!

Hear ye, hear ye...

From here on out, there are no free rides. If a contestant doesn't show up for Check-In, this picture will be attached to their name:


It's a wacky font and perhaps it's tough to read, but I'll make it easy for you: it says "Freshface"

By my reckoning, the following people have not been photographed. No hardcore shame awaits them this week, but next week is an entirely different story:

Lee Hahn
Will Groebe
Jesse Jensen (saved by his shaving video)
Tom Schelesny
Joe Engelke
Sanjay Das

And then there's Matt Jacobs. Hmm. Still pondering that one...

You've Got A Friend In Lake Mary

So, I was checking our visitors map again and found that we've gotten some recurring hits from Lake Mary, Florida. A relative, perhaps? Close friend of a Mantastic Candidate? Who knows, but regardless, we're happy to see you!

And when in Lake Mary, be sure to stop by the Events Center. Something's always going on! Heck, you should even think about moving there, since Lake Mary has been ranked #1 in Florida and #4 in the United States as Best Place To Live!

It's true!

Worthy Substitute

Jesse Jensen, he of the Chester A. Arthur category, was out sick as a dog on Check-In day, but filmed himself shaving his style with a straight razor!

Holy cats!

Yeah, I think that's good enough for a mulligan.

The Right Stuff

There are two ways to do Mantastic: the right way and the wrong way. Candidate Kip Larsen embodies the Right Way. Capital "R", capital "W".

As I mentioned previously, I completely botched things by somehow losing Kip's Check-In photo. No, I don't know how. It was a perfect sequence of idiotic events. What I do know is that I was crushed since he's most definitely a front-runner in his category. He's the New England Patriots right now - the team to beat. In a magnificent display of coming through in the clutch, he'd gotten wind of my gaffe and bailed me out! Not only does he have a fantastic start on his thatch, but he had someone take a photo while he was offsite at a high-toned location shoot. With outsiders! That's a No-Man-Left-Behind attitude akin to shutting down the nuclear plant that's about to blow, saving the town (if not the World), rescuing the cat from the toxic cloud, getting the girl, retrieving his trademark hat, and then deflecting the credit to the bumbling sidekick.

Astounding.

Here is Kip's new Week #2 Check-In, Chester A. Arthur Category:

Turn Your Head And Cough

Welcome to Friday!

This week was a total clusterfuck, what with people not showing up for Check-In, showing up for Check-In but refusing to shave, and showing up for Check-In with girlfriend-approved versions of their selected styles.

Excuse me a moment while I @#$% puke!!

There is one perfect way to get this thing back on track. Two ways, now that I think about it for a gigasecond.

1. Go home, spend two solid, uninterrupted weekend days farming your hair, then come in Wednesday shaved like a winner. Pow. No explanations, no whining, no cock-and-bull stories.

Or...

2. We trim the excess. Get rid of the deadbeats. Separate the wheat from the chaff. Losers go home.

Don't be the chaff. Be the wheat!!