10 Most Inspiring Beards of All Time!

With both David Letterman and Conan O'Brien sporting beards, pop-culture talking heads have been all a buzz of late about the return of the beard. The return of the beard. Which brings us to this blog post from Best Week Ever called, The 10 Most Inspiring Beards Of All Time.

We're as big of a fan of most of the list, snarky commentary and all, as the next person but we especially wanted to call into attention one that stands above the rest. Bob Ross. Painter extraordinaire. Here he is, on the top ten list at number 9:

9. Bob Ross - This Van Gogh of happy trees on TV was like a human Chia pet made completely out of zen, and at the very center of this centered being, was the trademark Jew-fro and corresponding salt and peppered face fur. But like one of his beautiful landscape paintings, in which the color and texture and light and shadow work together to create something of greater and more profound beauty, I like to think of Bob’s whole above-shoulders “head and face” hair ensemble as one big beautiful beard. Not only was this look unmistakable and inspiring, it was a true American masterpiece.

See the whole list here.