Tag Archives: Cancer Research

St. Baldrick’s

April 27, 2015
Hawaii

Walking into my first St. Baldrick’s fundraising event for childhood cancer research I didn’t know what to expect. I just knew by the end of it I’d be bald. It’s one of those things that sounds awesome until you realize, oh wait, I’m actually doing this. This is happening. This was a great idea about a month ago when it was WAY in the future. Now I’m about to go all Uncle Fester upstairs and there’s nothing I can do to stop this shave train. Then I walked into the St. Baldrick’s registration room at Dave and Buster’s and everything changed. Continue reading

Stand-Up to Cancer

April 6, 2015
Comedy, Hawaii

I’ll never forget seeing a newspaper article several years ago about a group of fifth-grade boys who shaved their heads so their friend with cancer wouldn’t feel out of place. One of their 11-year old classmates went through chemotherapy and lost all his hair so the kids rallied together to ensure no one could tell who was sick. How cool is that. I remember being pretty obsessed with my hair at that age, meticulously shaping my jr. mullet with neon green Dep hair gel. I used Aqua Net if it was windy. #Confession is good for the soul. This was the 80’s man, it could of been worse, I knew guys with perms. Continue reading