AUG 28, 2011
In the autumn of 1990, my father, who had been clean-shaven all his life, decided to experiment; he grew a moustache.
Nobody cool in America had a moustache in those days. Magnum PI, which starred Tom Selleck and his moustache, had already been off the air for a few years. Even worse, Saddam Hussein had a moustache. And more than anyone else in suburban Baltimore, where I was stuck in my junior year of high school, my father – with his moustache – looked a lot like Saddam Hussein. [full story]