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MarkB's Basses, Shaves & Other Obsessions
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This is a sentence you don't usually utter.
Very true. You can try it yourself and see how you fair.
OK, admit it Mark, you’re just making some of these up, right?
Why did I listen to you?!
29 May, 2025
Hello everyone! Hope you had a pleasant evening.
Going with a couple of Rod Stewart for your Thursday. Hope you enjoy.
Excellent shave this morning. New soap/splash/razor day with the arrival of "Atomic Peach" soap and splash along with the "straight" razor from The Hoy Black. So first, the soap / splash. The excellent quality of the lather is a given from PAA, but the scent is phenomenal! Bay Rum + peach may sound like a strange combination but, like bay rum with other fruit scents, this works wonderfully. Great lather built with the Simpson Chubby 2. I was eager to break in the straight so I decided I'd use it for the first WTG pass. I avoid using straights/shavettes on weekday mornings because I shave in the shower and that's not the place to use a filly exposed, literally "razor sharp" hunk of metal. After the first pass, I finished up the shave with the '56 Super Speed followed by alum, Quinn's Pink Grapefruit and Orange Rind witch hazel, the matching aftershave lotion, Pecksniff's "Grapefruit and Citron" talc & Ogallala "Double Strength Bay Rum" EdC.
The "Happy Hogan" Homefront Report: So, a little more on today's shave with the new THB straight... I thought that this thing wouldn't be much different than using my Feather shavette and that maybe I'd go ahead and use it for the XTG pass as well. I found out very quickly that this mother-lover didn't come to play! Immediately on the first pass I felt it dig into the skin. So yeah, instantaneous realization that this is going to be "interesting".. I stop, back it up, re-check my attack angle and proceed. A couple of more points where it dug in left me bleeding on both cheeks. Nothing bad but enough to let me know that this thing requires total focus when being used. As I said, the rest of the shave passed uneventfully. So, lesson learned.. A blood tribute paid to the Shave Gods for my hubris.
Hope you have a great day.
Hello everyone! Hope you had a pleasant evening.
Going with a couple of Rod Stewart for your Thursday. Hope you enjoy.
Excellent shave this morning. New soap/splash/razor day with the arrival of "Atomic Peach" soap and splash along with the "straight" razor from The Hoy Black. So first, the soap / splash. The excellent quality of the lather is a given from PAA, but the scent is phenomenal! Bay Rum + peach may sound like a strange combination but, like bay rum with other fruit scents, this works wonderfully. Great lather built with the Simpson Chubby 2. I was eager to break in the straight so I decided I'd use it for the first WTG pass. I avoid using straights/shavettes on weekday mornings because I shave in the shower and that's not the place to use a filly exposed, literally "razor sharp" hunk of metal. After the first pass, I finished up the shave with the '56 Super Speed followed by alum, Quinn's Pink Grapefruit and Orange Rind witch hazel, the matching aftershave lotion, Pecksniff's "Grapefruit and Citron" talc & Ogallala "Double Strength Bay Rum" EdC.
The "Happy Hogan" Homefront Report: So, a little more on today's shave with the new THB straight... I thought that this thing wouldn't be much different than using my Feather shavette and that maybe I'd go ahead and use it for the XTG pass as well. I found out very quickly that this mother-lover didn't come to play! Immediately on the first pass I felt it dig into the skin. So yeah, instantaneous realization that this is going to be "interesting".. I stop, back it up, re-check my attack angle and proceed. A couple of more points where it dug in left me bleeding on both cheeks. Nothing bad but enough to let me know that this thing requires total focus when being used. As I said, the rest of the shave passed uneventfully. So, lesson learned.. A blood tribute paid to the Shave Gods for my hubris.
Hope you have a great day.
Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements / Simpson / The Holy Black / Gillette / Quinn's / Pecksniff's / Ogallala
I don't care how much he's paying me. I'm still not going to see him!
I have noticed that there's a new fee on my ticketmaster account....Bougie Viewing fee: $30. And that's even when I'm not going somewhere you actually are!!!
The Bougie's Presence fee is starting at $85!!!
30 May, 2025
Hello everyone! Hope you had a pleasant evening.
Closing out the workweek with a couple from T.Rex. Hope you enjoy.
Excellent if rushed shave this morning. Returned to the Palmolive cream with its great scent and excellent lather built with the Wild West Brushworks synth. Two passes (plus touch-up) with the '56 Super Speed followed by alum, Gillette aftershave gel, vintage Avon talc & Guy Laroche "Drakkar Noir" EdC.
The "Happy Hogan" Homefront Report: Got home from work yesterday and immediately smelled the acrid stench of fried electrical components. Sniffed around and discovered that it was coming from our water heater. Peeled back the insulated wrap and found this:
I immediately flipped the breaker and took off the cover for a closer look. Yep, burned right through the internal insulation. So, looks like another trip to Lowes later today to get a replacement.
Hope you have a great day.
Hello everyone! Hope you had a pleasant evening.
Closing out the workweek with a couple from T.Rex. Hope you enjoy.
Excellent if rushed shave this morning. Returned to the Palmolive cream with its great scent and excellent lather built with the Wild West Brushworks synth. Two passes (plus touch-up) with the '56 Super Speed followed by alum, Gillette aftershave gel, vintage Avon talc & Guy Laroche "Drakkar Noir" EdC.
The "Happy Hogan" Homefront Report: Got home from work yesterday and immediately smelled the acrid stench of fried electrical components. Sniffed around and discovered that it was coming from our water heater. Peeled back the insulated wrap and found this:
I immediately flipped the breaker and took off the cover for a closer look. Yep, burned right through the internal insulation. So, looks like another trip to Lowes later today to get a replacement.
Hope you have a great day.
Palmolive / Wild West Brushworks / Gillette / Avon / Guy Laroche
I now want a reality tv show where @MarkB and @NurseDave just go out to homes and identify home repair issues. Mark finds em...and Bougie sits there and says....Yep...that's the issue.
I'd watch that!
