Hello, My Name is Matt...And I Am A Chia Pet.
Seriously.
When I started this blog awhile back I orginally included updates regarding my male-pattern baldness. (As opposed to what? Lamp-pattern baldness? Anyway). I'm only 29, but my hair started thinning while I was in college and it was apparent that by the time I was in my early 30's I would be a tall, shiny, baldy top. Which is allright...it runs in my family, I knew it was coming, and I really didn't care. But, one day while strolling around a grocery store, I noticed that Rogaine was much cheaper than I had realized. I bought a three month supply last October and have been using it ever since. So, since I had given updates there for awhile, I just wanted to get back into the habit. Around the end of December I noticed that my hair was growing back. Much to my surprise, the stuff actually works. Now, about five months later, it is really coming in thick, it's actually growing in much more than the instructions said it would. My understanding is that it doesn't really last all that long, maybe a year or two, but it's still fun to grow it back while I can.
I haven't been carded for alcohol since I was 25, but last night at a restaraunt I ordered a Shiner Bock and the waitress asked to see ID...so that was when I knew the stuff actually worked. Anyway, it's just sort of weird. This will be a good time to get my drivers license renewed and to pose for lots of photos, I should do it all while my hair is back. Re-live those folicular glory days, you know?
Your baldy blog is complete...
When I started this blog awhile back I orginally included updates regarding my male-pattern baldness. (As opposed to what? Lamp-pattern baldness? Anyway). I'm only 29, but my hair started thinning while I was in college and it was apparent that by the time I was in my early 30's I would be a tall, shiny, baldy top. Which is allright...it runs in my family, I knew it was coming, and I really didn't care. But, one day while strolling around a grocery store, I noticed that Rogaine was much cheaper than I had realized. I bought a three month supply last October and have been using it ever since. So, since I had given updates there for awhile, I just wanted to get back into the habit. Around the end of December I noticed that my hair was growing back. Much to my surprise, the stuff actually works. Now, about five months later, it is really coming in thick, it's actually growing in much more than the instructions said it would. My understanding is that it doesn't really last all that long, maybe a year or two, but it's still fun to grow it back while I can.
I haven't been carded for alcohol since I was 25, but last night at a restaraunt I ordered a Shiner Bock and the waitress asked to see ID...so that was when I knew the stuff actually worked. Anyway, it's just sort of weird. This will be a good time to get my drivers license renewed and to pose for lots of photos, I should do it all while my hair is back. Re-live those folicular glory days, you know?
Your baldy blog is complete...
posted by Samwick @ 8:49 AM
5 Comments:
At 6:21 PM,
Anonymous said…
So that stuff actually works? But not permanently? Sheesh.
You can also buy the complete opposite: hair inhibitor. Stops hair growing in those places you don't want it.
Whether it's bringing it back or stopping it from growing, I wonder what long-term effects these chemicals have?
If you grow two heads, let us know right here. Also if you lose the one you have right now. :-)
At 5:01 AM,
Tonto said…
Hey Matt...good to have you back.
Yeah the bummer about Rogaine is once you stop using it even for a little while the hair comes out again. You have to use it forever until they come up with something else..but good luck from the one man and the one woman I know who use it...they say it is the best!
Although I would give into the baldness. My brothers went bald around 40 and started shaving their head like Ed Harris and just surrendered...I still think they look great.
By the way..have you seen any good movies lately in preparation for the Oscars?
I saw the Aviator..good but at the same time...I can sum this movie up in one phrase..."Rich dairy addict descends into OCD"...but Cate Blanchett as Kate Hepburn was so good she made me want to go rent a Kate Hepburn movie.
At 8:35 AM,
Samwick said…
Hey guys. Actually, I wonder about the effects of the chemicals myself. I mean, it's going on right over my brain...but what if it makes me smarter? What if I wake up one day understanding quantum mechanics? Anyway, I'm pretty sure that this is the likely scenario, so start looking here for revisions of chaos theory.
And I'm pretty much ready for baldness, I just think of this as a sort of folicular vacation...at some point I'll get tired of using the stuff and just go bald, I'm ready for it.
The only movie I've seen recently is Million Dollar Baby, which was good...well made, but sort of boring. Everyone in it is great, but the story is sort of an old one. I am thinking about seeing the Aviator. You've said it is okay, Georgina, and a few other people have told me that its fun to look at, visually nifty. So, that may be what I see next, the flashy spectacle stuff is nice sometimes.
At 10:43 PM,
Christopher said…
A film I'd like to recommend to anyone reading these comments is "p.s" , starring Laura Linney and Topher Grace - a charming, intelligent, well-written movie, dealing with the issues surrounding a relationship between an older woman and a younger man.
This film came and went in Vancover BC within a few days, which may, in itself, be an implicit confirmation that it is a good film, given the philistine and plebean tastes of the
Oscar-obsessed brain-dead viewing public.
But then, I am a curmudgeon.
At 4:55 AM,
Samwick said…
Thanks for the recommendation Christopher, I'll definately look for p.s.
Is it on DVD yet? I live in a small town where good movies never come, I usually have to drive 3 hours to see anything other than major Hollywood releases, it's depressing.
"This film came and went in Vancover BC within a few days", I agree, a lack of disinterest on the part of the public is usually a good thing. It's why I'm so sick of polls...who cares what the majority of people think? The "majority" watches crap like Desperate Housewives on television, and we're supposed to view popularity as a measure of somethings worth? What? We are really a nation that worships the group, we love mediocrity.
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