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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • In the early 2000s plucking and waxing your brows to really really thin was fashionable, esp in certain places. Then people realized it is dumb but if you are around 40 now it was too late. So microblading helps you not look like a MadTV sketch. Source: my wife turns 40 this year, grew up in a particularly hood area of the sf bay area, and from 30 onwards really regretted plucking her eyebrows to almost nothing.


  • Dr bronners for skin and hair (I have very thick indian hair in jata style dreadlocks down to my knees). For a long time I used a charcoal based face wash (lush until they changed their formula for coal face, then some similar brand I found on amazon) but for whatever odd reason after a few years my skin stopped tolerating it and kept breaking out, so I switched to Kate Somerville’s sulfur face wash which works wonders (but does have a bit of a smell to it unfortunately).



  • I can thankfully say in my kids’ bay area public schools (west contra costa unified and berkeley unified over the years) they learn a whole lot of positives about the BPP, including directly tracing their free lunches today back to them. Berkeley High has a bunch of plaque type things honoring famous alum and one of them is for Bobby Seale. Way different than my own upbringing for sure.