December 2012
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October 2011
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Insanely Great
I’m sad today. I knew Steve Jobs was very ill but somehow I thought he’d pull another rabbit out of the hat. I’d been getting mixed signals from my SiVal sources, some saying he looked terrible and some saying he looked good, real good, and was just recharging his batteries.
Steve Jobs is one of my all-time heroes and I don’t have a lot of those. Obviously it’s...
September 2011
1 post
Seriously, can the fucking Mad Men bullshit. It's... →
July 2011
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Best. Shaving Cream Pie. Ever.
January 2011
1 post
November 2010
2 posts
How To Be Perfect
The Right Good Rev. Daniel Harrell has honored this Vile Wicked Blog yet again with another volley in what some are calling “the greatest game of Layer Tennis ever played”.
In our case, instead of two graphic design goofuses lazily farting Photoshop wankery back and forth on a slow Friday when they should be dodge’n’burning the new Kal Kan ad for the Thrifty Nickel,...
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Movember
Philip Bloom is a filmmaker and evangelist of “HDSLR” - shooting high-definition video on one of the new high-end digital SLR cameras instead of a traditional video camera. Ever since I got my GF1 and hacked its firmware for better video quality, I’ve leaned on Bloom’s blog and marveled at the technical and artistic quality of the short films he makes with little more...
May 2010
2 posts
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They can shut the Internet down now
Nothing will ever be better than this.
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I'm not good at getting praise
So I’m hunting the Intertubes for confirmation as to whether the kinda sorta grayish market GF1 camera I bought online locks shutter at 1/100 (Canadian version) or 1/120 (US market) in Flicker Reduction Mode when word comes from Young Petrovich that one of our jointly favorited sites, Rands in Repose, has kinda sorta grayishly mentioned this very site you are reading right now with an...
March 2010
3 posts
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Lifehacker: You Suck At Shaving Tips
Seriously, Lifehacker, enough with the shaving tips. Between this and this and this, you keep reminding me why ever since Trapani left your site’s become the joke of the Intertubes, and considering this site is also in the running, that’s saying a lot.
Extra threw-up-just-a-little-bit-in-my-mouth points for casting the Colonel from Boogie Nights as the Shirtless Rotarian...
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It all makes sense now
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This made me cry
Seriously, you guys are the best. I love you all.
January 2010
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Chopper
Corey-
I’m tempted to switch to old school shaving, but have a question – would your methods/equipment change for a bald(ing) man who shaves his entire head 2/3 times/week?
Thanks, Landesman
Landesman,
Not being bald myself I can’t state for certain that what’s good for the puss is good for the pate, but feedback from some of my readers who do chop it all off seems to indicate...
November 2009
1 post
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Help Me Out Here
The guns I get. The ammo, sure. And the speedloader, the mags, the black Speedo, even the odd discoloration on the upper thigh near the crotchular region. I get all that.
Why the Guitar Hero controllers?
WHY?
October 2009
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Rule #1: Use a shaving brush
Glad to see one of my favorite new blogs gets Rule #1 exactly right.
What’s doubly cool is Walker and his wife ended up having a girl, but he continues to advise his future son anyway.
September 2009
2 posts
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Idiocracy Pt. 4,067
It’s been the Summer of Dunce, and with a bang and a whimper, it’s finally over. I mean, I knew this country was 75% Deliverance Boy but ye gods, after this summer I feel like there are eight sensate Americans left and seven of them are sterile.
Speaking of idiocracy, I freely admit that making fun of the “advice” found on such unpaid intern written sites as Lifehacker,...
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For The Ladies
Nope, no site reboot today, I’m afraid. There are still some kinks to be worked out with the new layout, and some of the old links and pics weren’t working right with Today’s Wordpress aka Blogger For Masochists (“Now With 10% Less Banging Your Against Your Desk!”), so give me a few more days of forehead bruising and I should have something a lot nicer and much more...
June 2009
1 post
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Depression Shaving v2.0
Friend of Shaveblog Father Ian writes in:
“We keep a food pantry at our church for individuals who need it to get by. The other day one of our regulars asked for men’s toiletries, toothpaste soap and shaving stuff. Shaving stuff? How could I not have thought of stocking up this essential of human worth and dignity? Kraft Dinner and canned soup are good for your belly, but what about...
April 2009
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Older Budweiser
Corey,
I ran across your blog “Hail Andy!” from almost 4 years ago and am thinking about trying those feather blades. You mention that the Pro Guard blades worked great, but the Professional didn’t. You said you were going to experiment a little more with the Professional and Professional Super, but I can’t seem to find the results.
Did you ever...
February 2009
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Curses! Foiled Again!
June 2008
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Big Bowl Of Wrong
I can’t decide what’s wronger: that there’s a reality show called “Jingles”, or that these two dillweeds thought they might win it with this video.
Honestly, when I see stuff like this, I have to lie down for a while and try not to think about my children and the world they’ll be living in.
April 2008
1 post
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Thank you
Some readers sent me this clip and I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m choked up with emotion as I type this. Thanks kids, and I promise I will at least consider it. Namaste.
January 2008
1 post
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Clean Shaven Man
February 2007
1 post
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Gillette Fusion Power Phantom
November 2006
1 post
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The Gentlemens Refinery
For the past several years, no trip to Vegas has been complete without checking in on my pal Daphne Gastis who runs Truefitt & Hill’s shop at Caesar’s Palace. Beyond just the sheer amount of brushes, razors, creams, and assorted poultices to peruse, it’s always a treat talking with Daphne — for some reason, most of the men in this business are odd, cranky loners, but...
September 2006
2 posts
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YouNube
Since that Dutch researcher is theoretically paying me 343.873 guilders to deca-opine about modern man (Note to the Netherlands: I want it in stuivers and dubbeltjes, or else the deal’s OFF), I guess my job is to shamelessly work the words “modern man” in for nine more missives, whether it makes any sense or not.
Like I’m really going to stick to this plan — I can...
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Walter Mitty Rides Again
Fantasy seems to be a constant theme with modern man (you’ll be seeing the term “modern man” a lot over the next ten Shaveblog installments, because some research study in the Netherlands asked me to do a series of essays on “modern man”, offering 200 bucks upon completion — shyah, like I’m ever going to see guilder one, but it’s a good excuse to...
July 2006
2 posts
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Nationwide Campus Injector Razor
When I first got hooked on shaving with old safety razors, I started out with the classic double-edge DE. And I loved this type of razor to death until my pal Gordon (not this Gordon — this Gordon) turned me onto the other classic safety razor from wetshaving’s golden era — the almighty Schick Injector.
At which point I went on a serious, serious bender with these things....
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Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba
The most amazing thing happened to me the other day.
Back when I hit my teens, I graduated from comic books to hifi magazines, partly because DC and Marvel started simultaneously sucking in the 80s but mainly because I wanted to build a stereo so loud it would drown out my dad’s screaming at me to turn that @%#$ music DOWN for @%#$’s sake.
Most of the guys who wrote for hifi...
June 2006
2 posts
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Summer Shaving
Ahh, summer. Though it’s only 6/6/6 and we’ve still got two weeks and a day till the official start of summer, we’ve had a few days of searing, wavy-lines-off-the-sidewalk kind of heat here on the Forgotten Coast. And that can only mean one thing to inveterate Shaveblog readers:
It’s shaving season again!
Yes, Planet Shavegeek rejoices once more, as cruel, cruel winter...
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Get Musgo Real
Chasing the elusive 5-minute quickie shave lately, I’ve been revisiting some old favorite shaving creams that work especially well without a brush, just slathered on with your bare hands like a heathen. And it occurs to me that I’ve never really blogged about one of the very first high-quality shaving creams I tried back when I first picked up a Merkur safety razor to give this whole...
May 2006
3 posts
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Shaveblog is One
Thanks go to Beloved Wife for reminding me that it was exactly one year ago today that I launched Shaveblog, and to young Petrovich for helping me put the icing on the birthday cake that is this blog’s move from Blogger to WordPress (the move also means Shaveblog’s RSS feed has changed, so you need to reset your subscription if you’ve been Atomizing).
It’s been a strange...
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Hedwig and the Optical Inch
Philips and Norelco aren’t brands known for edgy bathroom humor. The last time I attended the IFA show in Berlin, about the farthest out Philips was willing to go was dressing up several hundred German youth in orange lederhosen and matching Raggedy Ann and Andy wigs and making them all do Up With People style dance numbers — to introduce the company’s new line of DVD players.
...
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Lush Life
And now for something completely different: Lush.
This UK brand of unabashedly girlie soaps, bath bombs, and haircare products has been flying under my all-seeing, all-knowing radar since it launched in 1994, probably because I’m not so much into $5 lacrosse ball-sized Bromo Seltzers scented with jasmine and ylang-ylang you dump in the tub to make fizzy-fizzy. I guess I’m just...
April 2006
7 posts
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Scuttlebutt
Part of the problem with shavegeeks is that most of the guys who’re into this trip don’t understand the difference between “classic” and “olde-timey”: Classic = using a hand-cranked churn and elbow grease to turn ice and rock salt into the kind of ice cream that makes you spit “feh!” the next time you taste store-bought. Olde-Timey = ordering the...
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Saving You Hours and Hours Throughout the Lifetime
The Internet has long been a place where the “You Must Be This Sane To Ride This Ride” sign is a mere ha’-proton above the floor. Only fools are forgiven for being shocked anymore that someone tetched enough to have a hankering deep inside for some good old-fashioned Photoshop conjoined porn has the Webwithal to actually quiet the shrieking voices inside his head or at least...
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The Good Doctor
I’m proud to report that the Ray Dupont Memorial shavegeek rig on eBay was taken with a whopping winning bid of $810! Congratulations “ForestFace”!
So the Simpson Chubby #3 Super Badger shaving brush donated by Lee’s Razors plus the Merkur Vision DE razor and the Classic Shaving hard shaving soaps I added to the kitty are currently banging around in the hold of a FedEx...
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Win a Simpson Chubby 3 Shaving Brush
Shaveblog has teamed with Lee Cantor of Lee’s Razors to auction off a brand new Simpson Chubby #3 Super Badger shaving brush to benefit the hospice which helped care for our friend Ray Dupont of Classic Shaving, who passed away on Saturday, April 8th.
Those wishing to bid on this brush may do so here, for eBay auction #6621529102. The winning bid will be donated to the Visiting Nurse...
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Ray Dupont, Traditional Shaving’s Guiding Light,...
Ray Dupont, whose lifelong fascination with old-fashioned straight razors and safety razors changed the way legions of men shaved every morning and led to the creation of ClassicShaving.com, the Internet’s largest and most successful shaving goods store, died on Saturday, April 8th at his home in Palm Springs, California. He was 54.
The cause of death was cancer. Mr. Dupont had been a...
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Maine Vain
Shaveblog gets a lot of shaving products sent here for review, but Maine Shave is the first line of men’s shaving products that was actually inspired by me, which is more than a little weird, I have to say. Flattering, certainly, but still weird. Tom Jones inspired women to throw panties — I inspired a shaving cream? Doesn’t seem right, though we both love stuffing.
Maine...
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Rush
I was halfway out the front door in pre-workout Hobo Lite regalia — shorts (okay, so they’re bathing trunks from the Gap, but they have this netting inside that kinda sorta subs for a jock) , t-shirt, hadn’t shaved yet (saving that for the Y) — when friends of ours showed up at the appointed time for a visit I’d completely forgotten about, their car pulling up in...
March 2006
5 posts
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Oracle
I got an email this week from a guy at Microsoft who’s getting into wetshaving, lamenting the fact that he can’t find a 1940’s Super Speed razor for a decent price on eBay now that my comments have driven the market for vintage Gillettes to irrational exuberance.
“You’re the Alan Greenspan of shave,” he compl-imented/ained. “Say something nasty about...
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Welcome New York Times Readers
Thank you, Peter Jaret, for the nice writeup in today’s Times! For Times readers checking Shaveblog out for the first time, I thought it might be good to repost the oft-linked wetshaving primer I wrote last year that started all of this — the Today Show segment, the MSNBC article, the old-school shaving boom, and this blog. I’ve updated the text with new tips and links...
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Blessed Art Shaveblog
Given the sheer number of “Jesus Shaves” t-shirts and posters, the parodic parochial mashup between wetshaving and Son-O’-God rivals the Darwin Fish as the most widely-deployed display of Rebellion Lite since the barbed-wire bicep tattoo.
But I say to you, woe be unto him who gets his yuks at His expense. For it is written in Isaiah 7:20:
“In the same day shall the...
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Rosehip
Back when I first started shaving as a kleen teen, I ended all my shaves the way every utha brutha on the planet did back in the day — with a bracing splash of alcoholic Old Spice on my freshly bloodied puss that stung so bad for those ten seconds of searing pain I saw acid tracers in front of my face even though the only thing I’d ever dropped was an entire bottle of boysenberry...
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The God of Shaving
Ever since I’ve been into this old-school wetshaving trip, Cary Grant has been my personal God of Shaving.
I mean, the man always had an Alpha Shave — his face was never less than perfectly smooth and hairless, like he’d never grown a whisker in his life. His skin was more alabastery than most of his leading ladies.
Few men have ever been photographed as much as Cary Grant,...
February 2006
4 posts
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Timeless Elegance
Yes, you too can own a lucite toilet seat embedded with real razor blades and barbed wire. For only $14.99 or fourteen-hundred and ninety-nine easy payments of just one penny, you can take a load off at the end of a busy day running a major corporation, competing in an Olympic athletic event, or taking a horse-drawn carriage ride through Central Park with a beautiful woman, on this luxurious...
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Wee 3
I thought I was done scoring razors on eBay. I thought I’d seen it all. Gillette 50s fatboys, Eversharp bakelites, Schick magazine repeaters, and then finally 40s Super Speeds, my main razor these days. I yoinked ‘em in nickel and in gold, and always in multiples of at least three, for reasons I’m ashamed to go into. I’ve got problems. Big problems. But no matter. I did...
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Avocado a Mano
As reported here last week, Taylor of Old Bond Street has updated some of its classic English shaving creams, to meet both new EU regulations over there, and FDA regulations over here. So I had Taylor send me some tubs of the new versions of Taylor’s Avocado and Lavender creams to compare with the old versions.
The new Avocado cream’s green logo appears on a clear sticker on the...
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The Shavegeeks Are Falling! The Shavegeeks Are...
It’s not even the second week of February and I’m already breaking my New Year’s resolution to stop making fun of the hapless flailers on the shavegeek forums.
I want to be good and leave the geeks alone, really I do. But 30,000 Shaveblog readers can’t be wrong. You people want me to make fun of shavegeeks. You need me to make fun of shavegeeks. You demand that fun be...
