Last chance to donate to St. Baldrick's

Well, I'm just a few hours away from shaving my head to raise money for the St. Baldrick's Foundation.

If you feel like throwing a few dollars their way, my personal fundraising page is here. Or you could click on that link over there on the right side of this page.

I promise to post "after" pictures of my absurd bald head. If you don't donate, well...I might revert to posting awful pictures of healing surgical scars. Do you really want that?

Yep...shaving my head

On Friday, April 24 I'm shaving my head. I've had a good run with the fake Elvis hair, no doubt about it, but it's time to try something new.

My friend John started a team to raise money for the St. Baldrick's Foundation, a children's cancer research charity.

You can click on this here link if you'd like to donate. Every little bit helps.

The last time my head was shaved was in August, 1983. I looked like this:



I'm hoping that this time the shaving doesn't reveal any forgotten tattoos from reckless nights in San Antonio, Texas.

How's about a raffle ticket?

One advantage--along with alcohol consumption during religious services--that Roman Catholicism has over many Protestant denominations is tolerance of gambling. I don't recall ever being at a bingo game or casino night sponsored by a Baptist church, and I've been in some excellent Baptist churches.

Here's the deal:

My brother's parish is holding a raffle, and my brother (like all the other parents with kids at that school) has to sell at least 3 tickets. The tickets cost $100 each. Top prize is $20,000, second prize is $10,000, and...well, just go ahead and read the flyer. You have a 1 in 20 chance of winning something.

My brother and sis-in-law are in a bind because, in today's climate, where the hell do you find the nerve to approach people and ask them to give you $100 for a freaking raffle ticket?

That's where I come in. My family figures I know more degenerate gamblers than most people, so they came to me for help. $100 is a lot of kale, no doubt about it, but you can split tickets among a group. Who isn't dying for a chance to parlay $25 into $5,000? I know I am. Or let's say you might even have $100. Why not find 3 other investors, buy 4 tickets, and instead of having one chance to win $20,000 you can have 4 chances to win $5,000! Think of the permutations. The mind reels.

So, if you're interested, and you'd like to see my niece and nephew continue to get the education that children in our family so desperately need (we are horrible sinners, after all) please get me by email and we'll work something out.

Like I said earlier, the children are our future. Now let's all get lucky.