December 2005
13 posts
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Ray
I want to tell you about my friend, Ray Dupont, now that he has announced that he will be soon be leaving us.
I placed my first order from Classic Shaving in 2004, and got a nice note from Ray afterward along the lines of, “It’s nice to see someone so high-tech who’s interested in traditional shaving!” Ray knew me from my gadget segments on the “Today” Show,...
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Dry Shaving
Today’s Shave: Taylor’s Avocado shaving cream, Gillette Super Speed, tiny mystery brush, Trumper’s lime skin food.
How come when I was shaving with a Mach3 and mediocre shaving cream I could use the same rig all year long without noticing any difference in my shaving, but now that I’m a fancy lad who shaves with safety razors and high-end creams, I need a...
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Everybody Must Get Stroned
Nancy Boy shaving cream, Gillette Super Speed DE razor, tiny shaving brush.
Shavegeeks tend to romanticize the past, and I’m as guilty of it as anyone. I talk about safety razors like they’re some pure manifestation of The Greatest Generation, used by JFK, Cary Grant, and Lee Marvin, back when men were men and shaved like men, even though the women probably had legs that felt more...
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Rewind
Back in grade school I had a teacher who asked us to write out the step-by-step directions for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and then the teacher followed each set of instructions literally, to the letter. As in, “take a piece of bread” meant he ripped apart a sealed bag of bread to get a piece of a slice, because the instructions didn’t spell out untwisting the...
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Olive Oil Soap
Today’s Shave: Savon De Marseille oilve oil soap, Vulfix #2234 brush, Gillette Super Speed DE razor.
One of my goals lately has been to get rid of all shower gel in our bathrooms. Beloved Wife started using this expensive (10 bucks!) (of course, when I spend 10 bucks on an eBay razor I never wind up using, that’s a prudent purchase) Pre de Provence shower gel when I started this...
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Brothers
Before I begin today’s entry, an introduction of a new feature here at Shaveblog — the dreaded SOTD, or Shave Of The Day. You know, when a guy lists the products he shaved with that day. Ewww, right? I used to see these “SOTD” posts on the shavegeek forums and cringe, but then I started keeping a blog about shaving, which is even lamer. So, in response to reader requests,...
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Best Badger
I’m currently in the process of unlearning all the misguided dogma I picked up when I first started checking out the shavegeek forums in search of a better shave. And by far the biggest dogma pile has to do with shaving brushes. More specifically, big-ass shaving brushes. As in, you need a big-ass shaving brush, or else don’t even bother.
Me, I’ve come full circle back to a...
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I Don’t Like Mondays (or Silvertip)
From the day I bought my first shaving brush, “silvertip” grade badger bristles have always been held up as the ne plus ultra, the top of the line, the best of the best. Silvertip brushes — so named for their Johnny Winteresque white hairs, which only turn black at the very bottom where the bristles come out of the handle — are by far the most expensive of all shaving...
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But What About The Blades?
If there’s ever to be a true and lasting peace in the Middle East, we need bold new ideas. And speaking from Mecca today, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad put forth an idea that was plenty bold and pretty darned new:
Move Israel to Europe.
Now, as I see it, the real issue here is razor blades. Israel’s got a factory in Nazareth that makes those excellent...
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Airport Shaving
Mobile shaving is my new ya-ya. It started with shaving at the gym, then spread to shaving in an airplane bathroom right before landing after a 14-hour flight to Tokyo, and now that I’ve caught my first shave in an airport lounge shower, I have a simple question:
Where have airport lounge showers been all my life?!
Why don’t people talk about taking showers in the...
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I Will Never Drink Anything Else But Boylan’s
Shavegeeks of the world, move over. Your time in the sun is through. A new age is upon us, and it belongs to the rootbeergeeks.
Ah, root beer. It makes perfect sense. What’s more important than root beer? Even those little root beer “barrel” candies are awesome. The only hard candy that tastes like what it’s supposed to be. They put it the time to make it right, and why?...
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Dopp Bop A Loo Bop
I hate business travel so I tend to eat too much and obsess about little things like making sure I’ve got milk in the room to go with the bathroom Mr. Coffee joe because seriously, I will hang myself from the sprinkler system spigot over the bed before I put that fake powdered “creamer” shit in my coffee.
Another thing I do to offset the fact that I’m not doing what...
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Return of the Featherjector
I’ve been on such a nice roll lately with my shaves. All the tumblers seem to fall into place, and I lucked into a combo of products that took the routine to a whole other level.
Discovering how insanely great the old 1940’s Gillette Super Speed safety razors are — and how these non-adjustable, seemingly timid DEs actually shave consistently more closely and comfortably than any...