MUSTACHE WEDNESDAY: DANNY TREJO

by Orson on May 6, 2009 4:23 PM EDT

Danny Trejo, a.k.a. "Machete," is your honorary (but late) Cinco de Mayo-themed Mustache Wednesday:

Happy Mustache Wednesday, cabron!

Perhaps best known as Charles Bronson, Salsa Flavor, Trejo's long streak of playing tough guys was preceded by life as a drug addict and small-time criminal known for street fighting in the nastier bits of Los Angeles before he decided he wasn't hard enough, went to jail, and then became a boxing champion in two classes WHILE IN PRISON. Boxers are hard anyway, but like anything else it all sounds so much tougher when you put IN PRISON on the end of it, like "It was bad, but I helped myself by bettering myself while working as an administrative assistant fluent in javascript IN PRISON."

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Are you a Mexican or a Mexi-can’t?

by Signal to Noise on May 6, 2009 4:28 PM EDT reply actions

I’m going to start adding “…in prison” instead of “…in bed” to all my fortune cookies.

by Oops Pow Surprise on May 6, 2009 4:35 PM EDT reply actions

Take away the knives, he’s still not someone I would want to bump into in a dark alley.

by General Disarray on May 6, 2009 4:39 PM EDT reply actions

You just fucked with the wrong Mexican!

by Tom Kazansky on May 6, 2009 4:42 PM EDT reply actions

Nice! My second-favorite ’stache.

by Reed on May 6, 2009 4:43 PM EDT reply actions

The greatest face in HD, ever.

by Holly on May 6, 2009 4:48 PM EDT reply actions

By far, one of the most bad-assed mustaches you will find these days. 100 margaritas to you sir!

by jacketexan on May 6, 2009 5:26 PM EDT reply actions

I don’t know if you guys caught CNNSI but a very prominent mustache in the northeast was featured yesterday on the front of the college football section.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/kevin_armstrong/05/04/frank.spaziani/index.html
Spaziani ready to make most of chance as BC’s new head coach

FLY EAGLES FLY

by Milam on May 6, 2009 5:27 PM EDT reply actions

Trejo would not be caught dead in a pair of these….http://teebows.com/

Orson, on the other hand?

by hlh on May 6, 2009 5:56 PM EDT reply actions

Someone please take these cutleries from my knees

by blazin on May 6, 2009 6:51 PM EDT reply actions

Yeah, it was a good documentary. Gotta love Netflix.

by Trae on May 6, 2009 7:29 PM EDT reply actions

Not surprised he had it rough. A face like that tells his whole life story.

by MCab on May 6, 2009 7:31 PM EDT reply actions

Sr Trejo needs to star in “Brokeback Mountain 2 – Montanas Mariposos”

by vegas_buckeye on May 6, 2009 11:14 PM EDT reply actions

“You serve food, José?”

“Best in Mexico.”

“I kinda doubt that.”

by Jack on May 7, 2009 9:42 AM EDT reply actions

Did anyone see him on Breaking Bad a couple of weeks back?

Check out the exploding turtle on youtube sometime.
wow

by JoeTheMethHead on May 7, 2009 11:39 AM EDT reply actions

I know it sounds too good to be true, but a full-length movie of Machete is supposed to be in pre-production. Rodriguez is apparently shooting it along with Sin City 2.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985694/

by Will Q on May 7, 2009 2:36 PM EDT reply actions