Showing posts with label St. Baldrick's. Show all posts
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St. Baldrick's - The Results

March 14, 2012 St. Baldrick's , 2 Comments

I hope you all remember my post last month called Going Bald for St. Baldrick's - Or, Star Trek Made Me Do It!

I decided to take the plunge and get my head shaved in support of the St. Baldrick's Foundation, which raises money for children's cancer research. I made a goal to raise $1500 and I did. In fact, I raised more than that, but they are still tallying in the amounts and accepting donations. You can still donate via my fundraising page.  


Here is my "before" picture. I was fortunate that it turned out that an old coworker's daughter was one of the shavers for the event. She did a super tidy job on me, which I thank her for. I've heard that they have to go through so many people that sometimes the shaves get a bit messy.


In fact, there were over 200 people that got shaved that night. I had waited for my friends to come and so when I got into the line for shaving, it was over a half hour wait! 

The shaving turned out to be a lot of fun. You can't help just laugh away as it is happening since you can't see it happening. Thank goodness my friend Rodney was there filming the whole thing for us. These are his pictures and video.


Here I am with event organizer and friend, Henry de Vere White. His pub, de Vere's Pub, hosted the event and has another one tomorrow night at their Davis location. The goal for Sacramento was to raise $150,000. They are still counting, but it should be very close.

And now, for your viewing pleasure, you can watch the whole thing:








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Going Bald for St. Baldrick's - Or, Star Trek Made Me Do It!

January 19, 2012 bald , cancer 2 Comments

I am a Classic Trekkie. That is, I prefer the original Star Trek over all the incarnations that followed it. In fact, when I was a preteen, I kept a binder with listings of all the episodes, books, and photonovellas that were out. Yes, I am a geek.

This was back in the late 70's. I was still living overseas and was excited yet disappointed when the first Star Trek movie, Star Trek: The Motion Picture came out on December 7th, 1979. I remember the day exactly because of my birthday, but I was half a world away and would have to wait to finally get to see it.

In that movie the Indian actress/model Persis Khambatta played the bald headed alien, Ilia. She was gorgeous even without hair. Even though the movie stunk for overall quality, it was still a hit and Khambatta's role was unforgettable. It was then that I first had a curiosity over what I might look like bald. Enter the 80s and now we had people like Sinead O'Connor and Grace Jones. Later on you can add Natalie Portman, Demi Moore, and most recently, Britney Spears. Certainly if they could do it, I could too.

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