Our weekly dispatch from the nation's foremost mustache expert.

As mentioned last week, despite leading the foremost facial hair advocacy organization and think tank in the world -- the American Mustache Institute -- this week I condoned, and myself committed, so-called "flavor-saving genocide."

Yes, for the first time since Richard Nixon was in office, my lower nose garden is bare, as part of the Movember charitable mustache-growing campaign to benefit the Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG.

And while I bear too much shame to show myself in public sans mouth brow, the chairman of AMI, Dr. Aaron Perlut, was wiling to go on television and have his dental filter removed, courtesy of former Mustached American newsman John Pertzborn of KTVI FOX-2 in St. Louis.

We will be all right, of course. A regimen of scotch and 2.3 bowel movements daily for the foreseeable future will have us properly lip-sweatered in just 11 days. And as part of this effort, we hope you would be wiling to explore your Mustached American capabilities for the next month by joining the AMI Movember Team, which of course will be celebrated Dec. 4 in St. Louis at 'Stache Bash 2010.

You can see Dr. Perlut's sacrifice below.




For Dr. Abraham J. Froman's mustache perspective, check in every Wednesday on Asylum.