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August 30, 2005
I Disregard the Promise of Motorcycle Athleticism in Favor of Marvelling at Facial Hair
This morning I found a hastily scribbled post-it note stuffed in my wallet:
stunt team... russian "cossacks" but also from seattle? embroidered polos, the biggest mustaches, generous tattoo work
When an incongruent trio of men walked into Taco Mac last Thursday, I was undeniably intrigued. There was a young, broad-shouldered guy, clean-shaven and with a hint of fuzz for a haircut. His red, silk-screened t-shirt boasted the cartoonish outlines of three men, presumably with epaulettes and military hats, standing on each other's shoulders while the bottom fellow gripped the handlebars of his cartoon motorcycle. "A thrift store find, perhaps?" I thought. And a good one, at that.
The second man, middle aged with iron-gray hair pulled back into ponytail, had a luxurious handlebar mustache of such proportion and thickness that would churn up viridian envy in any respectable mid-19th century gentleman. His tattooed arms bulged out of his dashing leather vest and polo shirt combination.
Their companion was wheelchair-bound. But, as his silvery, dense mustache, elaborately-inked arms, impressive girth, and rumbling laugh would suggest, he was the patriarch, the figurehead, the proprietor of whatever bewildering bond existed between the three.
More men filed in -- almost twenty at the highest count -- the majority of them with upper lips so fastidiously groomed into mustaches of fantastic shape and size that you might momentarily suspect that you had intruded upon a meeting of upper-lip horticulturists. But the t-shirts, embroidered polos, and emblazoned caps gave it away: they were the Seattle Cossacks, and they were in Chattanooga to make the fantastic happen at the National HOG Rally.
I never saw them ride, per se, but the facial hair alone was enough to make me a fan.
Carefully Dramatized Life Accounts , People-Watching | By elissa | 10:11 PM
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...reminds me somehow of a chapter in The DaVinci Code...
Posted by: CRM-114 at August 30, 2005 10:35 PM
