My Case for "Unshaven"

While there's been a number of work-in-progress titles floated out there by Seder to put a name to this monster he and Maron have on the slab, I'd like to make a case for the boys to stick with 'Unshaven'. There have been some snort-inducing names that were tossed out there in the brainstorm; 'Jews and Technology' surfaced largely out of frustration on a memorable clear Fall day in Bryant Park. The lions in front of the NY Public Library are still snickering about that one. I was expecting Foley to say to Maron, "Let me have a look at yer notebook, get this goddamn show on the road..."

'Unshaven' is as perfect a title for what you're seeing. You have two exhausted guys, one by fatherhood, the other by, I'll say, life, meeting on line to discuss the events of the day in a balls-out, unexpurgated fashion, they come as they are, and they bring it raw. Seder has said his [most excellent] appearances on MSNBC's "Countdown" will be fewer since he became Hudsonified and stubbly. I say any program that demands you show up clean shaven is not interested in content over style. I love how Maron plunks himself in his backyard in the morning, as is, with a water glass of black 'Chock Full o' Nuts', a cigar, and the occasional breakfast item. Often he'll be joined by special guests Monkey and LaFonda, or whoever is under his chair at the time. His feral buds are low on input but high on cute.

'Unshaven' is also the content; the kind of rage-fueled discourse complete with the language that it warrants, unshaven of the invective that is the earmark of these guy's passion for progressive discourse in an increasingly loud and stupid world.

And while every political and self-promoting tome out there has a subtitle, might I propose the following: 'Unshaven--Life, Liberty and Hirsute Hotheadedness'

Whatever face it takes, dag it, I'll be there!!