Moustache Monday: Becoming Adolf
Posted by Qais Fulton
In the most recent issue of Vanity Fair, writer Rich Cohen documents the trials and tribulations of growing (and sporting) what has come to be known as “The Hitler.”
Obviously anyone wearing the infamous moustache is going to immediately be compared with Hitler. It’s simply one of the icons the fuhrer stole and warped for all time. Attempts at reclamation result in derision or mockery. I occasionally spy the local hipsters with a “Hitler”, attempting to be clever or ironic and accomplishing neither. Derision and mockery (thinly veiling the shame of being unable to grow one myself) generally follows.
Cohen’s article is fantastic, not only documenting his personal experience with the most famous of moustaches but the history of “The Hitler” itself.
Becoming Adolf [Vanity Fair]
Categories: Insanity, Berlin, Moustache Monday
Posted at 8:53 pm on October 22, 2007
6 Comments -
i played a game for awhile where i’d paste a toothbrush moustache onto a celebrity and ask “Chaplin or Hitler?”
Comment by Haux — October 23, 2007 @ 12:45 am
Pure genius. I’m stealing this idea for my next party.
Comment by Qais Fulton — October 23, 2007 @ 2:01 am
I got an ever so slight hazing at Destructoid for posting this, but my misfiring mess of a brain still finds it amusing.
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m117/fixxxer667/IMGP2338.jpg
Enjoy, yours truly. And no, it wasn’t anywhere near Halloween.
Comment by FiXXXer667 — October 23, 2007 @ 6:25 am
here’s a link to some of the CoH polls i did with my friend tjcrowley:
http://tjcrowley.livejournal.com/tag/chaplin+or+hitler
that’s me at the bottom of the 2nd page, sporting the “Chipler” (”Hatlin”?)
Comment by Haux — October 23, 2007 @ 3:57 pm
When I was a teenager in Germany (c. 1960), I asked one of my teachers if she had ever seen Hitler. She said yes, in Munich, before the war. “He used to arrive late to the opera, and the performance had to come to a complete halt while the ‘great man’ and his entourage of thugs found their seats in the royal box.” Ooo, I said, what did he look like? She made a German noise expressive of scorn, and said, “Like a streetcar conductor!” She and the other intellectuals in her group were smart enough to flee to the USA before things got bad. My question, fifty years later, is where are we going to flee to, when monster mediocrity takes over the USA?
Comment by Mogo the mmoMugger — October 24, 2007 @ 5:11 pm
You’re welcome on my moon-base anytime Mogo. Sadly, that may not be far enough.
Comment by Qais Fulton — October 24, 2007 @ 5:14 pm