I do not have the tallies all in yet, but my estimate is that we raised just about $1500 for The Prostate Cancer Foundation and The Lance Armstrong Foundation at the party!

Thank you to all the people who came to the party, who brought donations both monetary and for the raffle, who helped me keep things running smoothly, and who had a great time.

As I get more pictures and information I will post them both here on my blog and through Twitter so that everyone can get a glimpse of the great fun we had. If you know who all won prizes at the event, I would really appreciate you sharing this information with me so I can share with our sponsors.

Pictures & Articles

@yosoykia took some awesome pictures and posted them on Ossumniss.

Terry Cabeen (@tcabeen) posted an article about Movember.

CBS4 News covered our event!

A roll of raffle tickets and only a small number of the prize envelopes

The movember style guide

@brandonblaine choosing his style

@keithives getting a shave from Brian Poskin

@tekee preparing to get his beard cleaned up into a pretty nice chin strap

@joeburnham pre-shave, getting his shave inspected, and then rocking some awesome handlebars

@markwmann pre-shave, getting his massive beard trimmed down to some amazing mutton chops

@mbernier talking on stage, Mo picture from the day after

@gpelz rocking an awesome Mo-sista ‘stache

@kyleindenver pre-shave, starting the shave, getting shaved, being interviewed during his shave

Special Thanks

I wanted to give special thanks to a couple people who may or may not have gotten that thanks the night of the party:

Thank you to @cerippe and @rackhousepub for giving us this location to have this party, helping set everything up, having amazing food, great beer & whiskey, and for being awesome!

Jason Janell (@meatflag) and Kendal Ruth (@iamkendal) Thank you tremendously for manning the door all night and helping us sell so many raffle tickets

Ashley Kingsley of ASHER SOLUTIONS (@ashleykingsley), Miss Movember herself, thank you so much for helping to gather up so many awesome prizes and for introducing me to the really great people you got the prizes from.

Thank you to @markwmann for helping to organize the event and for bringing Troy Negley (TNegley at archstonemail dot com) our great DJ!

Thank you to @kyleindenver for helping to set everything up and introducing all of us to Brian Poskin

Thank you to Brian Poskin of Ollies for sculpting some amazing Mustaches out of the horrible facial hair most of us called beards.

Thank you to @mistymontano & @CBS4Denver for sending out a camera man and interviewing @kylindenver about our event!

Thank you to @NealStewart & Mike’s Hard Lemonade, Co for sponsoring our event by donating $5.00 for every person in the door and for sampling your great new Hard Cider drink.  I can safely say that people loved the new drink!

Thank you to @RedHeadWriting for introducing me to both Chris Rippe & Neal Stewart!

Thank you to all of the people, businesses and everyone who provided great prizes for the event.

Prize Winners

@snowkitten won the St. Supery Winery Tour

@keithives won The LoHi Steakbar $50 gift certificate

@gabelee won one of the St. Supery Magnums

@DKMayer won the Signed Joe Sakic Jersey Silent Auction

Did you win something? Tell me and I will post your name and prize here!

I guess we will have to try to go bigger and more awesome next year. Since we know we want to do it before Nov 1st, we can be better prepared for an even bigger party!

P.S. If I left anyone out above or you have pics to share just drop me a comment and I will add you ASAP!

We are raising money for the Prostate Cancer Foundation and The Lance Armstrong Foundation through The Metal Mustaches Movember.com team.

The Metal Mustaches are a group of guys and women who have banded together to grow and support the growth of beards and awesome metal mustaches in the name of raising money to fight Men’s Cancers.

RSVP NOW!!

The Rackhouse Pub

Dec 4th, 2009

7:00 – 9:00pm

200 S. Kalamath Street

$10 donation at the door

Gets you 2 raffle tickets. (Maybe more if we can swing it)

$50 at the door

Gets you 15 raffle tickets and a Movie Poster

We have an awesome sponsor!

They will be donating $5 for every person who walks in the door for the event

AND

They will be bringing samples of their new Spiced Apple seasonal drink.

• 2 Large Format St. Supery Cabernet Sauvignon bottles
• 1 Tour of the St. Supery Winery for 4
• Large Men’s Colorado Rockies Jacket ($120 value) (picture here)
• $50 Gift Certificate to the LoHi SteakBar
• $78 value First Class Gift Certificate to SkyVenture Indoor Skydiving
  
• A gift box of Gourmet Spices Savory Spice Shop
  
• Gourmet (and super fancy!) Chocolates donated by Wen Chocolates
  • In order to keep them fresh for Dec 4th, they will be donated the week before
• Joe Sakic signed NORDICS Jersey (pictures here)
  
• John Elway signed mini helmet (pictures here)
• Bass Ale Mega Cooler (pictures here)
• Thriftonista: $100 worth of personal styling and vintage clothing from Thriftonista. This will include a 1 hour personal style consultation (worth $50) and $50 in expertly sourced vintage clothing.  This prize IS transferable so that the winner can give it as a gift to any friend of family member
• PlumSage Flowers: $75 Gift Certificate
• LaXWorld Colorado: One new Lacrosse Stick, Ball and a Shirt
• Laser Hair Company: 1 gift Certificate for $250.00 and 1 for ½ of 1 Package Deal.
• $25 gift card to Indulge Wine Bar
• FettMarketing will be providing:
  • 3 – $500 SEO Website Reviews
  • 1 – $3500 SEO Website Analysis and Game Plan
• 1 Men’s t-shirt from SnowTees
• 1 Women’s t-shirt from SnowTees
  • Movie Posters provided by AMC Theaters
    
  • Pirate Radio
    
  • Men Who Stare at Goats
    
  • The Box
    
  • Xmas Carol
  • Surrogates
  • Where the Wild Things Are
  • Law Abiding Citizen
  • Final Destination
  • Fourth Kind
  • Aliens In The Attic
  • The Goods
  • Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Got a Beard?

We will have barbers on site to give you an awesome Metal Mustache

Important Links:

• Cancer is serious about you. Return the favor. - T-shirts and stickers, profits are being donated.
• Join the Metal Mustache Team!
  

Joshua Duplechian will be photographing the event www.joshuaduplechian.com

Reinforce Media, LLC

ASHER SOLUTIONS

@AshleyKingsley

@Amanda5280

@KyleInDenver

@DKMayer

@mbernier

Joshua Duplechian for photographing at the event

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RSVP NOW!!

I am back in Denver and in full swing for the party on Friday.  I do not know how to say it any louder or more annoyingly, PLEASE RSVP for the love of all that is good in this world, PLEASE RSVP.

We need your name on the RSVP list if you are coming.  This will help us to know how many people are coming and whether I am letting down our sponsors (Mike’s Hard Lemonade Co and The Rackhouse Pub).  I personally promised a ton of people and I need your help in making that happen. SO PLEASE RSVP NOW!!

Movember Links:

• RSVP for the Party on Dec 4th at The Rackhouse Pub

• Join the Metal Mustache Team
• Donate money to the Metal Mustache Team to benefit The Lance Armstrong Foundation
• Cancer is serious about you. Return the favor. T-shirts and stickers.  The profits are being donated.
• Metal Mustache Movember Team Press Release

I don't know if you can tell, but I am worn out!

I am sorry to say there are not a ton of Movember updates for today.  I went to KC on black Friday to get my new truck, replace some parts & do maintenance, and then today I drove the whole day away from KC to Denver.  Basically, I did zero amount of work on anything pertaining to computers, the internet or Movember (other than grow my beard) this weekend.  I am crashing pretty quickly so it is off to bed for me.  I have to get up and be a programmer in the morning, so sleep is imperative.

Day 27 – A haircut, but no shave

November 27th, 2009 § 0

I decided that both growing my beard and my hair out was a bad idea. I had entirely too much hair atop my head, so one had to go. I gave myself a haircut.

Please RSVP for the party we are holding on Dec 4th, there will be over $1500 in prizes available!

Movember Links:

• RSVP for the Party on Dec 4th at The Rackhouse Pub

• Join the Metal Mustache Team
• Donate money to the Metal Mustache Team to benefit The Lance Armstrong Foundation
• Cancer is serious about you. Return the favor. T-shirts and stickers.  The profits are being donated.
• Metal Mustache Movember Team Press Release

I decided that both growing my beard and my hair out was a bad idea. I had entirely too much hair atop my head, so one had to go. I gave myself a haircut.

Please RSVP for the party we are holding on Dec 4th, there will be over $1500 in prizes available!

Movember Links:

• RSVP for the Party on Dec 4th at The Rackhouse Pub

• Join the Metal Mustache Team
• Donate money to the Metal Mustache Team to benefit The Lance Armstrong Foundation
• Cancer is serious about you. Return the favor. T-shirts and stickers.  The profits are being donated.
• Metal Mustache Movember Team Press Release

Only 8 days left until the big party at The Rackhouse Pub with Mike’s Hard Spiced Cider!  We are going to have tons of people there and raise a ton of money for The Prostate Cancer Foundation and The Lance Armstrong Foundation.  I hope to see you there! PLEASE RSVP NOW!!

My Emo MySpace-esq Picture

Movember Links:

• RSVP for the Party on Dec 4th at The Rackhouse Pub

• Join the Metal Mustache Team
• Donate money to the Metal Mustache Team to benefit The Lance Armstrong Foundation
• Cancer is serious about you. Return the favor. T-shirts and stickers.  The profits are being donated.
• Metal Mustache Movember Team Press Release

It is almost here! I know I keep saying that, but it is pretty exciting to me that all of this has  come together so fast and that so many people are interested in the event.

With all of the excitement though, I STILL have not seen very many RSVPs to the event.  PLEASE RSVP!!  We really need to know that people are actually coming, and we are hoping to raise a bunch of money to fight Prostate Cancer.  Without YOU we cannot raise enough money.

Movember Links:

• RSVP for the Party on Dec 4th at The Rackhouse Pub

• Join the Metal Mustache Team
• Donate money to the Metal Mustache Team to benefit The Lance Armstrong Foundation
• Cancer is serious about you. Return the favor. T-shirts and stickers.  The profits are being donated.

There have been some great people working behind the scenes on the Dec 4th event.  Notably:@rackhousepub,  @ashleyKingsley, @amanda5280, @DKMayer, @KyleInDenver, and many more.

As a team, yesterday and last night, we were able to secure the following prizes for the party:

• Joe Sakic signed NORDICS Jersey
• John Elway signed mini helmet
• Bass Ale Mega Cooler
• Thriftonista: $100 worth of personal styling and vintage clothing from Thriftonista.
  This will include a 1 hour personal style consultation (worth $50) and $50 in expertly sourced vintage clothing.  This prize IS transferable so that the winner can give it as a gift to any friend of family member
• PlumSage: $75 Gift Certificate
• LaXWorld Colorado: One new Lacrosse Stick, Ball and a Shirt
• Laser Hair Removal Package: (Still waiting on amount but I think it will be $150) from Stacey Davis

Prize Pictures and my pic of the day:

Movember Links:

• RSVP for the Party on Dec 4th at The Rackhouse Pub

• Join the Metal Mustache Team
• Donate money to the Metal Mustache Team to benefit The Lance Armstrong Foundation
• Cancer is serious about you. Return the favor. T-shirts and stickers.  The profits are being donated.

As the month is closing out, I am finding that the Movember party is getting closer much faster than I anticipated.  Despite this, I am getting tons of help from great people in Denver.  There are so many prizes in the works right now that are not even mentioned on the event page, I just hope to get the info up before the event!

My requisite #movember picture of the day:

It'll fill in eventually...I hope

Important No Shave November/Movember Links:

• RSVP for the Party on Dec 4th at The Rackhouse Pub

• Join the Metal Mustache Team
• Donate money to the Metal Mustache Team to benefit The Lance Armstrong Foundation
• Cancer is serious about you. Return the favor. T-shirts and stickers.  The profits are being donated.

No Shave November Updates:

• 2 – $200 Gift Certificates from Ananda Art & Tatoo
• Mike’s Hard Spiced Apple will be at the Party and donating $5 for every person who comes in the door
• St. Supery will be donating wine in a “large format” bottle for the raffle

Important No Shave November/Movember Links:

• RSVP for the Party on Dec 4th at The Rackhouse Pub
• Join the Metal Mustache Team
• Donate money to the Metal Mustache Team to benefit The Lance Armstrong Foundation
• Cancer is serious about you. Return the favor. T-shirts and stickers.  The profits are being donated.

Cricket wanted to help with this picture

Melissa and I have just been hanging out at the apartment for most of the day.  I made some phone calls yesterday and found the truck I have been looking for in Kansas City.  So, I have been working out all the details for me to go into KC next weekend to pick it up, do some work on it and drive it back to Denver. I am very excited.