My power animal is the skunk? That's just mean.

I hope these two things are unrelated.

Yes, yes they are!

When is she gonna start growing her hair out?

A topic of much discussion, to which the answer is, "Hell if we know. Possibly never." Hec does have a dear friend back East whose daughter was almost totally bald until at least 2. We used to have several years' worth of Christmas pictures on the fridge door, of three strapping, sweet, bushy-haired boys and an 8-ball-bald baby in a frilly dress, then an 8-ball-bald toddler in a frilly dress, then a self-possessed, regal, queenly and 8-ball-bald little girl in a frilly dress. She's had nice sprightly ponytails for the last couple of years, but it was really looking dodgy there for a while.

This is the most, and the most visible, hair Matilda has ever had.

Not very many of me exist, and apparently we're all cantankerous Switzerlanders. Our power animal is the Crab-eating Macaque. All your Ebola vectors are belong to us.

Hec does have a dear friend back East whose daughter was almost totally bald until at least 2.

One of my girl cousins was like that. Totally adorable! She has had gorgeous hair for the past 24 years or so though.

So who knows what event happened this day (August 6)?

When filmmaker Steven Okazaki took to the streets of Tokyo to ask people what important historical event had occurred on Aug. 6, almost no one knew the answer. This was startling, because what happened on Aug. 6, 1945 -- when the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima -- permanently transformed the Japanese nation.

In the 62 years since the only two instances of nuclear warfare in history (the bombing of Nagasaki followed three days later), historians and political activists of all stripes have debated the morality behind the act. Did President Harry Truman's decision to use the bomb shorten the war and save lives, or was it a horrendous war crime that cost the lives of more than 350,000 civilians?

But these arguments, Okazaki believes, have diverted us from looking at the horror of what actually happened, which only increases the risk that it could happen again. His new film, "White Light Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (which premieres Monday on HBO), strives to strip the politics and ideology away from this central event of 20th-century history and explore it through the memories and testimonies of those who witnessed and survived it.

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I'll be watching this tonight. Oh, and I just knew the bombing of Hiroshima happened early August (1945).

It's a Scrappy inferno! Also, congratulations to my sister, who will be rollin in the dough. Roll, flea, roll.

filmmaker Steven Okazaki

I heard this fellow on public radio the other day. Hell of a project. Apparently, there are enough Hiroshima survivors living in SF that they have a monthly get-together to talk about the weird ilnesses they get/have gotten over the years.

JZ, Matilda continues to be adorable. It's weird because Grace is now completely bald of our own doing. Or really to correct the terrible cut the nurses gave her. She has a Natalie Portman/V is for Vendetta thing going.

Happy birthday, Robin.

I have a million things to do today and absolutley zero motivation to do them.

She does so exist

Look at that big girl! What happened to your baby???

a long time ago someone (I think it was Steph L. passing on her brother's recommendation) recommended a good value knife from target. Does anyone remember which one?

Sophia, it's this knife set. It's quite good for an average cook like me.

Burn Scrappy Burn!!!!!

Legend has it that bald-for-a-long-time babies end up with curly hair. Don't know if the olde wives are correct on this one, but they were on my sisters who were duck-fuzzed past two.