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.

JZ, is your big girl big enough for the Tiki shirt now?

I think Suri Cruise may be bogarting much of the world's baby hair.

Wearing Cuban heel stockings to work today. V. exciting.

Kat--I hope you feel less at the end of your rope than you did yesterday.

Robin, happy birthday! It's been a full couple of weeks, huh?

Annabel was fuzzy-headed for the first few months, but then quickly grew lots of hair. I once had another mother ask me, apparently in all seriousness, how I got her hair to be so thick. I can't remember what I said, though I wish I'd either said, "DNA," or, "Why, I've been rubbing her scalp with Rogaine since we brought her home from the hospital."

Thanks Steph! I, to am an average cook, but I am sick to death of hacking away at my vegetables with a paring knif I paid $5.99 for at the grocery store!

I am in a bit of a panic, because my university has decided to change all the Healthcare Plans to make them "more fair" (I wish they would just say to save money). The upshot is that I used to pay nothing for my benefit and a $15.00 co-ay, and now I am basically going to have to pay $56.00 a month to get the same benefits or pay less and take a change that I have to come up with thousands of dollars if I am sick. My cost of living raise raise per month this year comes out to $61.00. Also, if I get my expected re-classification and big raise, I will have to pay more! And we have to pay $500.00 a year to park here (well, I don't, because I don't have a care.)

It is very anger making because the reason most people came to work at the University when there were higher paying options was because of the free health benefits and free school. Now that the other business in the area have crapped out and the University is now the highest employer in the area, they have been slashing our benefits. PLUS they are doing that crappy wellness thing where they pay you to take a health assessment survey-- which in my brain is just going to lead to me paying higher insurance because I am fat and depressed (although quite physically healthy).