My Movember Diary (Or 'It's not just dirt above my lip honest')- Day 7

Day 7

The "Is-that-even-hair?" face

Okay, so the idea of a day to day photo diary of my Mo journey was well and truly shot down when, on days two through to five there was very little change in the smooth surface of my face. So it'll be coming a week at a time.

I haven't put a photo on my actual MoBro page yet- so unworthy a 'tache it is. And I've raised a grand total of £0 so far, as many people at work have mentioned ( and I agree with this idea) that money will come my way when a)they get paid and b) there is something mighty enough on my face to be seen. So stay tuned for next week, when it'll be properly visible.

Donate here- http://uk.movember.com/mospace/1901064/

Our engineers are working hard to resolve this problem...

Hello again, all. Due to a recent increase in my daytime activities thanks to gainful communicative effort in a society of business and the commencement of involvement in a national social event there will be no Sunday Evening Read review on this day.

Basically, I've been buggered for time trying to up my wordcount for NaNoWriMo this weekend after work. So I haven't managed a book review. Don't worry, I've already got the book in mind, read and re-read it recently and have plenty to say, so it will be up next Sunday. Here's a hint- it's horror, written by a modern author, and involves the Moon somewhere in its title.

In the next seven days I promise I'll have it written up and scheduled. In the meantime, happy November! If we all wish it enough, it might finally start getting frosty and cold 'dahn sahf' like this time of year should be.

We apologise for this interruption...

There will be no Graphic Novel Review today. In between the determined concentration behind trying to force hair out of my face so I don't look like a fraud for Movember, the flurry of words, keys and pen against paper that is NaNoWriMo, and a few other things, I haven't had time to finish reading Neil Gaiman's The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists.

So, I'll get to reading it in the few moments I have free now, and normal service will be resumed next week with a review of it. It might be worth a wait, I couldn't say just yet

In a messed-up wo-o-orld...

Hi everyone, cheers for popping by- this is a second quick update between the pub, NaNoWriMo and sleep, but I feel it's important to post because it's pretty disgusting yet phenomenal that people would go as far as to do such a thing.

I direct you to this link here, featuring real life Barbie Feet.

I don't want to go into the why's and wherefores, the contexts and containing features, the reality and the "what if?"s and the wonderings. I'll just spread word, via io9, via this link, of the horrifyingly real pedicural, perambulatory problems being pushed on owners of feet everywhere. They might not exist yet, but when they do...

Support this as & when you can- http://mobro.co/ChrisHousden

Tolkien didn't just write- he drew, too

Hi everyone, cheers for popping by- this is a quick update between the pub, NaNoWriMo and sleep, but I feel it's important to post because it's pretty cool. Like Tolkien, and the histories he wrote? Take a looksie...

Never seen original concepts of the Lonely Mountain before?

It includes loads of great artwork you'd never see anywhere else, unless you paid phenomenal amount for books with artwork. Surely worth a look?

My Movember Diary (Or 'It's not just dirt above my lip honest')- Day 1

Day 1- Bare-faced

Shaved it all off and I'm now clean shaven, a blank canvas upon which to grow a masterpiece.

Donate here- http://mobro.co/ChrisHousden

The November Experiment- see you on the other side

So I graduated a few months ago, I've got around to the pay-off of weeks of soul destroying job hunting and a naff unpaid placement in the form of a pretty sweet job, and I'm starting to plan properly a trip somewhere abroad which I've had in mind for ages to take place next year.

Things are looking up and up. And tonight sees the end of October. It heralds the beginning of November. A month in which two organised, month-long events are held which I have, in the past, ignored or shied away from as taking up too much time or being "not for me". Well, no more. As of tomorrow I'm correcting the imbalance of writing I've been doing by embarking on NaNoWriMo.

I'm also shaving my beard and 'tache off, for the reason of getting a clean slate for Movember. From that blank canvas a mighty handlebar shall grow. I may end up looking like Rufus Hound. Or being beaten up.

If I'm not dead from trying to write a novel in a month or from attackers objecting to the facial hair I shall cultivate, I'll see you on the other side.

Also, you can check up on the writing here- http://www.nanowrimo.org/, searching for CJMK2

and can donate to the cause for prostate and testicular cancer research here- http://mobro.co/ChrisHousden. Please give, even a little.