bienvenidos

good day. welcome to the sage 'stache. this post will serve as an introduction of sorts.

i am a scientist currently living in mexico city as part of a research project measuring air quality in mexico city. the short answer, without looking at a shred of 'scientific data', is that the quality is poor. but, it's getting better. and it's a great place to learn about atmospheric dynamics.

outside of my work as a scientist, i'll be focusing on life in mexico city with special emphasis on the mustache. apart from random experiences i have, i'll be posting pics of mustachios that i find striking, shapely, or different. growing a mustache is a fascinating experience, and should be shared with more people. at least, i'd like to think so.

a brief personal history of my own mustachio trials and tribulations: in the summer of 2004, i grew my first official mustache. my mustache took on the moniker of "summer 'stache", and i was known to morph into an alter ego known as havana felipe during certain crises. i would be hesitant to claim that i look good with a mustache, and would even argue that there is an exceedingly small percentage of the population that looks better WITH a mustache. but, i digress. at the conclusion of that fateful summer, i put my stache to sleep, for what i thought would be a very long time. more recently, however, i have been inspired by the local population to re-visit my inner stache and subsequently decided to begin growing/grooming version 2 of my outer stache, "El Bigote".

i think that serves as an adequate introduction to the stache. but, this is the "sage stache". as such, i'd like to end each post with some (encouraging) words of wisdom for all the mustachios out there:

** a man never forgets his first mustache. choose wisely. **