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End of the month, so I'm retiring this month's injector blade. I'm feeling the need for some variety, so I think I'm going to use a Sensor Excel for December. The line up for the month will be:
Gillette Sensor Excel
Semogue 1470/Vintage Vulfix Boar/B&B Essential Boar
DR Harris Windsor soap
Lucky Tiger AS
Gillette Sensor Excel
Semogue 1470/Vintage Vulfix Boar/B&B Essential Boar
DR Harris Windsor soap
Lucky Tiger AS
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How many carts for the month do you expect, Bob? I would guess 3-4.
Holy cow, I use my Schicks for 10 days .
Best cart I ever used. They could have stopped at 2 blades, as far as I'm concerned (of course I tried every model up to and including the first Fusions).
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Mmm…good ol Lucky Tiger!
Totally underrated
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It’s part of my charm!
I got weird(er) a couple of years ago and worked to find blades that I could stretch out for a month without an appreciable drop off in comfort or performance. Easy to make it work with the Sensor carts, and I can get a good experience from the Schicks. The DE’s really poop out after 14 days and I’m pushing it after 10, but they’re so cheap that I don’t mind changing them up after a week.
I started with sensors and went up to Fusions before I quit the arms race. Then I went backwards to Mach3 (and even still have a Rooney Mach3 handle in faux ivory that I got from Jim Ayers at Vintage Blades), before finally settling on the Sensor with a stick handle.
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One of my resolutions this year is to listen to more music. In the last 5-10 years, I have contented myself with audiobooks and podcasts in my ears at the expense of music. I started early to rectify this, and have been listening to Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways. This song, Murder Most Foul, is nothing short of astonishing.
Dylan chronicles American culture better than anyone I can think of. Here's his tribute to Woody Guthrie:
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I couldn’t hear the mic drop, but then you know he doesn’t have to. Anyone who questioned his Nobel Prize can go pound sand.
Agreed.
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Starting 2022 with a multimonth commitment to my on-going 3017 of my DR Harris Windsor puck. I'm finding that a light hand with the water while face lathering gives me the best combination of cushioning and slickness. The scent is just great. I will also continue my use of Lucky Tiger AS Lotion and Face Tonic for the duration of the winter. Who knows, I may be able to finish it by Spring.
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Part of my music resolution this year is an album per day. I’m not going to sit in a corner like the guy in the Maxell tape ad (remember him?) and focus only on the music. It has to fit in with life, so it will be in the background sometime and foreground others. I hope to reacquaint myself with old favorites and make some new friends in the process.
Today’s listen was The Honeydrippers, Vol. 1 by, um, The Honeydrippers. This was a early to mid 80’s concoction by Robert Plant and Brian Setzer and was their take on 1940’s big band music. I have loved this EP for almost 40 years. My favorite track is Rockin’ at Midnight. It was a nice stretch for Plant from his Zep days and early solo work (Pictures at Eleven and The Principle of Moments). I like to think that it helped inspire his current collaboration with Alison Krauss. In any case, it’s well worth the half hour time commitment to listen.
Today’s listen was The Honeydrippers, Vol. 1 by, um, The Honeydrippers. This was a early to mid 80’s concoction by Robert Plant and Brian Setzer and was their take on 1940’s big band music. I have loved this EP for almost 40 years. My favorite track is Rockin’ at Midnight. It was a nice stretch for Plant from his Zep days and early solo work (Pictures at Eleven and The Principle of Moments). I like to think that it helped inspire his current collaboration with Alison Krauss. In any case, it’s well worth the half hour time commitment to listen.
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I broke out my Simpson Gary Young Limited Edition (Light) in 3 band super today. After using boars for the last few months I realized I had forgotten how soft Super Badger knots were. So. Good.
I also listened to The Mountain Goats’s ‘Tallahassee’ album today. Last year someone had highlighted one of their songs that was apropos for 2020, so I went back to what seems to be their most listened to album on Spotify. I can’t say that I liked it much. My daughter yelled down to the basement asking if I was listening to Green Day, but alas I wasn’t. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
I also listened to The Mountain Goats’s ‘Tallahassee’ album today. Last year someone had highlighted one of their songs that was apropos for 2020, so I went back to what seems to be their most listened to album on Spotify. I can’t say that I liked it much. My daughter yelled down to the basement asking if I was listening to Green Day, but alas I wasn’t. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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I'm going to make sure all of my brushes get used this year. Some haven't been touched in a couple of years. I'll give each brush a week and start doubling up once I get through them all once. As mentioned above, this week's brush is the Simpson GYLE (Light) and it really delivers. The lathers I get from synths are better, but I ain't complaining.
Today's album, courtesy of Spotify, is The Wall-Live in Berlin, by Roger Waters. I remember having the house to myself in 1990 after graduating college and listening to the live broadcast. At one point, Waters had vowed to play the album live after it came down, so he convened an all-star cast to put it on (minus his former bandmates in Pink Floyd), so you have Sinead O'Connor singing Mother, Paul Carrack on Hey You, The Band backing up on multiple tracks, Joni Mitchell and James Galway on Goodbye Blue Sky, Van *frickin* Morrison on Comfortably Numb...excellent. Waters singing the lead vocals on Nobody Home betrays the loneliness of the song (he's singing it as I type).
Today's album, courtesy of Spotify, is The Wall-Live in Berlin, by Roger Waters. I remember having the house to myself in 1990 after graduating college and listening to the live broadcast. At one point, Waters had vowed to play the album live after it came down, so he convened an all-star cast to put it on (minus his former bandmates in Pink Floyd), so you have Sinead O'Connor singing Mother, Paul Carrack on Hey You, The Band backing up on multiple tracks, Joni Mitchell and James Galway on Goodbye Blue Sky, Van *frickin* Morrison on Comfortably Numb...excellent. Waters singing the lead vocals on Nobody Home betrays the loneliness of the song (he's singing it as I type).
Now that's an all-star band. I especially love Van Morrison's music. 
Van is like Dylan - he can be grumpy on stage. Maybe you caught him on a bad night.
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I hope that's it. I thought it might have been me.