After a month of dedicated mustache growing, our efforts were rewarded with Playmates and Canadian Club whiskey. Mo Bros and Mo Sistas from the New York area gathered at Capitale for one last pro-mustache, anti-prostate cancer celebration.

Playboy’s “MOlympians” joined Playmates Stephanie Larimore and Stephanie Glasson for a quick photo that could double as a Fourth of July gathering from 1976. 

After extensive touring of the United States over the past few years in support of their albums Living in America and Dying to Say This to You, The Sounds retreated back home to Sweden, presumably to record more of their signature pop-punk aural candy, savor their successes abroad or both. Last Thursday at the newly reopened Palladium, Los Angeles got a sneak peek at what’s next for the quintet at a sold-out, one-off show that featured three songs from their upcoming album. Singer Maja Ivarsson—the leggy, lung-y lead singer—said one as-yet-untitled ballad was inspired by California, an area that is most receptive to the Sounds’ nu-new wave aesthetic. With her peroxide blonde hair, black jacket, matching short shorts and high heels, Ivarsson reminds one of what watching a young Deborah Harry with Blondie at New York’s CBGB back in the ‘70s might have been like. Ivarsson strutted, posed and belted out Sounds staples like “Hit Me,” “Seven Days a Week,” “Ego” and “Queen of Apology” before kicking off her heels, diving into the audience, and crowd-surfing her way back to stage to do it all over again. All Sounds concerts have this kind of energy and sexy stage theatrics, as you can see from the picture included with this article. 

Whether you are one of the Gen Y audience members slam-dancing to the music or one of the Gen Xers thrilled to see this scene happen all over again, long live rock ‘n’ roll—even if we have to import it.

First of all, Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families! So what's on the agenda for my blog this week...

Beautiful celebs like Gisele and Jessica Simpson have been seen dating NFL players. Would I go out with a celebrity, and if so, who’d be my choice?

Eagles QB Donovan McNabb said he didn’t know that games could end in ties. Guess what — there’s probably a lot of us pros who didn’t know that.

When the Pats’ Matt Light and Miami’s Channing Crowder got into a fight last week, the TV announcer said, “This is not hockey!” Want to know my take about trash-talk and fighting?

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So it's Thanksgiving week. Lots of football on TV. Personally, I’m grateful to be part of the National Football League and for every year that I get to play. It’s not an easy road to get here and your career can be over in a second. But I’m thankful for a lot of other things as well, man. Just being where I am today. Overcoming personal adversity, being able to be independent yet provide for my family despite all that we’ve been through. As for being there with them for Thanksgiving dinner, I haven’t been back home since before college. But I’ve got some great memories. We’d get together at my grandmother’s place, and she sure can cook.

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At 39, grown-up Goonies child star Josh Brolin quietly established himself as a talented movie actor with his starring role in the Coen brothers’ Oscar-winning No Country For Old Men. Now, fresh off this year’s starring role as President George W. Bush in the Oliver Stone biopic W., Brolin takes a second seat to Sean Penn who plays martyred gay civil rights leader Harvey Milk. In the Gus Van Sant-directed biopic Milk, Brolin co-stars as real-life family values San Francisco city supervisor Dan White who, in 1978, assassinated San Francisco mayor George Moscone and fellow supervisor Harvey Milk. Van Sant’s movie chronicles Milk’s historic fight against and defeat of California’s anti-gay Proposition 6, making the subject matter of this period piece unexpectedly timely. We talked to Brolin a few weeks after the passage of California’s controversial Prop 8.

PLAYBOY: What will straight audiences get out of Milk?

BROLIN: People are going to take from it what they take from it. If I were to make something up, I’d say “Your voice matters.” It’s nice to have heroes who put themselves in harm’s way knowing that harm or death is near or possible. It’s amazing and we don’t have a lot of those people anymore. We used to. You look at Harvey Milk; you look at Martin Luther King; you look at a lot of these different people who Howard Zinn talked about in The People’s History of the United States. He says democracy was built from the bottom, not the top, and I love that quote. It’s about the people, ultimately. I think the same thing goes for W. Why do you empathize with this guy? You watch this movie and the question is, “Why did this guy… how did this guy become president of the United States… twice?!” We can’t write him off as being an idiot because we are responsible for putting him in there. Forget about ballot manipulation and all that—which is obviously a huge issue—but still 45 million people voted for the guy. So within that, what is it about people that needs somebody like that at that moment in our history, and how can we learn from that because look at what’s become of it?

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Hey wassup? It's Thanksgiving week and personally I have a lot to be thankful for. Basketball has impacted everything in my life. It helped me get a free education from one of the best universities. Now playing in front of 20,000 live and millions of people on TV, I'm financially stable so I can help my friends and family. There's lots of stuff that I'm so blessed to have. Basketball has opened so many doors, it's even brought my family together - my mom and dad divorced when I was three, but they'll sit next to each other to watch me play. It's meant so much more than words can express.

In last week's Bulls game, I almost had one of those "want to get away" moments at the Staples Center. I had the ball stolen off me, totally clean. But as the defender headed up the court for an easy lay up, I knew I was going to block that shot whatever it took. Luckily, I caught up just in time -- plus I have a 43-inch vertical -- and I swatted the ball away. Not in my back yard!

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It’s in your bookstore. In a society that markets youth ad nauseam with a need to stay abreast of the latest fashion trends, have countless plastic surgery procedures, and keep up with the latest facets of pop culture, aging gracefully is not acceptable. Andrew Zuckerman challenges this ideal with his latest project, Wisdom. The book of portraits was inspired by the idea that wisdom is gained by experience. Zuckerman says, “We are a culture entirely obsessed with youth. There is a generation of extraordinary individuals with perspectives that aren't being heard right now.” 

For twelve months the award-winning photographer and filmmaker traveled the world to photograph and have a direct dialogue with fifty of the most intelligent, creative, and spiritual individuals over the age of 65. “These faces are important because being that they are over the age of 65, they’re not necessarily pushing an agenda, whether it’s a movie or a campaign. They can sit back and share their perspective. We are having a conversation more so than an interview.” 

The project includes portraits of familiar politicians such as Edward Kennedy and Nelson Mandela, musicians (Willie Nelson), artists (Andrew Wyeth), writers (Nadine Gordimer), actors (Clint Eastwood, pictured on the book cover), and religious leaders (The Dalai Lama). A one-hour documentary DVD is included with a behind the scenes look at the discussions. Wisdom is much needed material in a society that seems to be preoccupied with musicians resembling more of an Ashlee Simpson act than gifted talent, young Hollywood starlets' rehab stints, and self-absorbed celebrities boasting about lavish spending habits. Billy Connolly, 66, describes wisdom as “the constant questioning of where you are. And when you stop wanting to know, you’re dead. You’re walking but you’re dead.” 

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