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There's a guy on Style*Dash that I just can't get enough of - Jonathon Morgan. Here's a snippet of one of his columns; below it is the link to the whole article.

Porn star moustache: New trend alert?
Posted Dec 20th 2007 1:27PM by Jonathon Morgan
Filed under: Men, Celebrity Style

Starting last spring, I noticed the hipster guys around town were shaping their facial fuzz like...well...porn stars. It was a rough time for the fashion-forward set -- we'd been stuck in a seemingly endless 80s revival, and the obsessively stylish were trying anything to break out of the mold. I figured it was a brief, ill-advised foray into alternative grooming that'd quickly be forgotten.Until today. Word on the street is Pete Wentz, bassist for Fall Out Boy and boyfriend to Ashlee Simpson is sporting an adult movie star motif above his upper lip. Gross!

http://www.styledash.com/2007/12/20/porn-star-moustache-new-trend-alert/

Reading this kind of breathless hokum is kind of like picking scabs off my arms - it's uncomfortable and unpleasant, but somehow I can't stop. There's also a curiosity angle: how many times in a row can this guy make me actually snort and shake my head with disbelief? So far, all of them.

I guess it goes without saying that I'm not a "hipster" or a member of the "fashion-forward set", let alone "obsessively stylish".

But who really decided that this sort of moustache should be known as the "porn star moustache?" In fact, it was in Jonathon's column that I first heard it described as such, so what sort of Freudian admission is he really making here? The first time I saw it was on my grampa's cowboy associates back in the 1960s, and the most memorable time I saw it was on the face of a six-foot-five Rhodesian commando with arms like banded steel. In fact, I've always called it a "cowboy moustache", which suggests to me that the only cowboy Jonathon sees is the one in old Village People videos.

But just to slake my twisted curiosity, am I to understand that last spring was a rough time to be a fashion-forward type but now, apparently, it is not? I'm curious what changed in the interim. The rediscovery of chaps, perhaps?