tinypliny - 02/17/10 18:51
(e:lib), no amount is small because I think every little things comes with an unspecified amount of love and spirit. :-)


AN ATV on Erie?! Those blokes must have been completely sloshed.

libertad - 02/17/10 18:29
Wait now it is unfrozen? I heard about those losers who took their ATVs out on the ice and fell through. I would seriously be afraid to walk on it let alone take a heavy machine out on it.

I can pledge a little bit of money, do you accept small amounts?

vincent - 02/16/10 09:36
Yes! This is great news.

The flip side is that we won't get real spring/summer weather until sometime in June...

james - 02/16/10 09:05
Lake effect snow requires warmer water: :::link:::

So I hope you are right Ms.Pliny

mrmike - 02/15/10 22:48
Lake Effect Blizzard -- Sounds like a treat at Dairy Queen

uncutsaniflush - 02/15/10 22:45
I think the idea that there can't be "Lake Effect" snow without open water. In other parts of the world, blizzards manage to happen without open water. But they aren't Lake Effect Blizzards.

metalpeter - 02/12/10 17:54
It is funny for someone who Claims to not be Violent you had videos with Pepper spray and abuse that leads to murder, then causing a heart attack and a wood chipper good videos by the way.

tinypliny - 02/13/10 10:39
And really? Bad business practices? Hmmm...

Glad the money is going to Roswell then. I know that everything is above board and peer-reviewed.

If you think, why not wigs for cancer patients? Most of them are adults - and I am sure many would appreciate the availability of well-made wigs those initial days of losing hair unexpectedly.

tinypliny - 02/13/10 10:29
@dragonlady7: First of all, YIKES. I would never want any woman to lose her hair. Ever. For any reason.

All my comments about locks of love were merely because the peeps (Matthew and Peter) were considering cutting off their hair and mentioned it in response to my post. And that ArtVoice model - well, she had lovely everything and I couldn't help teasing Peter. :-)

Long hair is a thing of beauty - it has immense cultural significance where I come from. I am not even telling my folks I am doing this because I am sure my parents and brother will have a collective heart attack if they heard. (I have been told that my blog is super-boring for them most of the time, so they don't even bother reading.)

As I said before, this is a personal experiment for me, because research has always been and will be very personal to me. It is not about donating hair - as much as it is about the experience of losing it, empathizing and identifying with women who lose it because of no fault of their own. I want what I work on to have a deeply personal face to it, because my deepest fear is waking up one day, going to work, forgetting why I ever came and not caring. Sometimes, you have to light your own light because so many people have lost their faith and become impersonal. Sometimes idealism is not naïve because you have to believe in it to be yourself.

Maybe you should photograph your hair in all the hot Ukranian braids and post it here. :-)

dragonlady7 - 02/13/10 09:33
I have to weigh in briefly just because, as a woman with very long hair, I am harassed pretty much daily to get my hair cut off. [No one ever bothered me in college, but since I turned about 25 I get two or three comments every time the length of my hair is apparent. I don't even wear it down.]
Simply because I have long hair, people, mostly women, sometimes get quite nasty about my presumptuousness of keeping it to myself. I am a member of an online group-- well, I was-- devoted to the care and maintenance and discussion of long hair, and there were a lot of threads on there about Locks of Love. They have repeatedly been under investigation for poor business practices, and I determined very early on that I would never donate to them.
There are other organizations I would happily do business with, but I strongly encourage you to do research before choosing a particular one to donate to. LoL has, in the past, stated on the record that they simply throw away much of the hair donated to them. (Most of their wigs are for children; adult hair is too coarse to use.)
Some of this may no longer be true. I did all my research about five years ago when people first decided I was too old to deserve my hair. It may be out of date. But I encourage you to explore it now, before you make your donation.

And I applaud your selflessness and resolve. I will not be donating my hair, simply because I receive so much pressure to do so: I will do what moves *me*. I would rather paint houses or dig ditches or contribute in some other way. If I am going to cut my hair off for any reason, I will sell it myself and then use the money how I see fit. No one has the right to demand I give anything up. I don't go down the street yelling at Lexus drivers that they obviously have more money than they need and should donate half of it, or yelling at healthy people that they have TWICE the kidneys they need and should donate one, and yet people feel perfectly free to out-and-out abuse me for the horrible crime of having "too much" hair. No thank you.

I am sorry to rant; I get this all the time, however, and it's only going to get worse as I get older.

tinypliny - 02/12/10 18:55
Take a look at the Locks of Love Guidelines -> :::link::: Looks pretty straightforward. They just need a 10" minimum in a ponytail/braid.

Shorter hair is just sold for money. Layered hair is made into multiple ponytails. I think they only don't accept chemically bleached/damaged hair. I think you are okay - unless you have bleached your hair recently.

metalpeter - 02/12/10 18:12
The one misgiving I have is that I don't know if you like put it all in one pony tail or two (not all my hair is the same length) and no idea where to go, I looked into it once but forgot what I found. Also my hair doesn't seem very strong either. It is an idea though.

tinypliny - 02/12/10 18:08
With the length of my hair being what it is, anything less than going bald would hardly be fair to anyone including me. LOL

You have some fabulous locks! You should join me and donate to locks of love. Imagine how gorgeous women (who have lost their hair) will look with your golden highlights and deep/light chocolate hair! :-)

metalpeter - 02/12/10 18:05
Well I saw some guy on the news and he was a teacher and he didn't go all the way bald and that is true of the other person on the news also. But look into that. In Terms of Locks For Love, I've been thinking about that for some time. I think it would still make my hair kinda long not sure.

tinypliny - 02/12/10 17:05
@(e:carolinian): I am not very good at covering my head generally. I should really take your advice on this one and super-LOL at the NCP dome-showing at Goodbar. Haha Sounds very 80s biker-hair-metally for some reason.


@(e:Jason): Excellent point, but have you personally known a woman who has had a diagnosis of breast cancer in her 20s or 30s?

carolinian - 02/12/10 16:33
I recently took off all my hair as a New Years Resolution. My advice: buy lots of warm hats.

Perhaps we should have a "Nair Club For Peeps" night at Goodbar where all of us bald estrippers show off our domes.

jason - 02/12/10 15:38
IMO, raising money for research is more important than trying to feel a measure of the "blow to vanity". It's crazy and it's wonderful. Good for you. And I can't wait to see (e:Matthew) down to the wood.

tinypliny - 02/12/10 15:34
It's 03/10. And I cannot believe it but my generous little family away from home at Roswell just donated $100 for my little resolve and anti-vanity experiment! :::link:::

heidi - 02/12/10 12:59
ooops... your bday 3/13?

tinypliny - 02/12/10 12:16
I am having palpitations now and my palms have gobe sweaty. I just registered.

Who knew I was THIS vain! I am just finding out!

tinypliny - 02/12/10 11:59
Wow, thanks so much, (e:Matthew). Mine is 10 days before yours.

I think you have a long enough hair to donate to the locks of love! Is your hair at least 10" long?

I am registering by the end of today. Not sure whether to join "Trump's troops" or start a group of our own.

Anyone else in? :)

matthew - 02/12/10 10:52
I'll do it if you do it Tiny. My birthday is 3.18 and I've been thinking about chopping it for the exact same reasons.

tinypliny - 02/12/10 10:35
Thanks, Heidi!! :) (It's actually not for another month - but hey I will accept all good wishes any time!)

(e:Drew), maybe for a bloke, but quite honestly, I am finding out how nervous its making me!! I think its good to go through all these feelings, it makes me think I have been taking the patients too lightly. Its almost like a real-time psychological lesson.

drew - 02/12/10 10:11
Shaving your head is fun.

heidi - 02/12/10 10:06
Happy birthday, (e:tinypliny)!!! (Tomorrow, right?)

tinypliny - 02/12/10 01:20
That's incredibly sweet of you say. :-)

It's not really an attention-getting maneuver though. I am not even going to ask anyone to donate (though people may feel free to pitch in if they really want to). I am just viewing this as a fresh start to a new decade in my life. A sort of renewal of what I set out to do. It sounds kind of sad that I need a visual cue to start afresh but it just might shake me out of the rut I seem to have settled in.

Besides, my hair grows like the amazon - you have no idea. ;-)

enknot - 02/12/10 01:10
I really don't know how else to say this, but um please don't. I really really reeeeeealy like your hair. Aaaaand whos gonna pay attention to lil ole pliny when the CEO has no beard.