Casualty!

Well, not so much a casualty as someone who revealed his soft, white underbelly.

James Brown is now officially out of the contest. The question is: was he pushed? His excuse was that he had to go to meet with the director of our new in-house project. Seems reasonable....or not. Let me put it to you this way: He was interviewed for a featurette for the DVD release of our most recent project, not only in full Handlebar, but wearing his Mantastic 2006 t-shirt and angling his body to the camera so it could read the shirt loud and clear.

Hmm....

Let's review:

- A permanent DVD record of his moustache and shirt which will be available to the globe for less than $20 or the price of a rental: Mantastic.
- A fleeting get-together with a director who's already forgotten his name and the meeting itself: Shaved.

Either there was some heavy pressure coming from above or James Brown is as downy soft as a week old duckling.

I'll leave it to you to decide for yourselves.