
I get a boatload of requests to join Facebook fan pages. Most of which I ignore. (Sorry, I really can't get behind your Fans of Blue-Bellied Whippoorwills page. So stop inviting me.)
But here's one I really want to see succeed:
"Can This Beard Get More Fans Than Lady Gaga?"
The challenge? Get this straggly, unkept, fire beard to surpass Lady Gaga's 5.2 million fan mark, to prove you don't have to be an androgynous pop warbler to score a small city's population worth of fans. Sending a message that sitting atop the Top 40 isn't the only way to become hugely popular.
Can the beard sing? No. Dance? I think the closest it comes is swaying in the wind. But you can't tell me that tangle of chin hair doesn't have at least twice the personality of your average pop star. Or Twitter-happy cougar husband.
Join the movement.
Click here to become a fan. Only 5,210,720 to go...