Straight razor my ass.
Ricky at NJD talks about shaving with a straight razor in the shower.
He does clarify in comments that he means SAFETY razor; a straight razor in the shower is just stupid.
Here’s my razor:
It’s a Morris Sculptor Edge, a narrow bladed razor specifically made to shave up under your nose, around ears, etc. I’ve shaved with this bastard for the better part of 25 years. I did so full-face until I was 35, when I grew the beard I now wear, these days I touch up with the Morris at home and when I’m on the road I use a Bic Metal, because it most closely matches the blade feel.
No, you can’t be shaky when you use it. You can’t be less than 100% alert, and if you are, you’re gonna bleed.
All of this started with Instapundit razorblogging.
Left to my own devices, I wouldn’t shave at all, but I look even more like a neanderthal when I don’t shave, so I have to trim some of it off.
How much do you suppose one of those electroclysis machines cost?
10 comments Og | Uncategorized
When I start eating more hair than food or when I get confused for Santa Claus and/or one of the ZZ Top guitarists on a regular basis, is when I take a razor to the edge of the beard. It, the beard, is twenty-six years old this fall. I last shaved the chin complete in 1978. I have threatened the oldest daughter with shaving it off for her up coming wedding and I was told I would be shown the door.(Grin) Now my dad shaves every day, in the morning on rising and just before bed. He says he feels dirty with a beard. Once a Marine…
JD
hmm. It gave me an error message that I did not post, but my post appeared?
JD
Freaky, JD! I’ve had that too, I don’t know why.
Looking at that picture brings to mind Dr. John singing about how he’s getting a doubled-edged straight razor “so when I cut you once, you gonna bleed twice.”
I suspect with these implements of destruction, you might do so anyway if not verrrry careful.
Fun to look at, though; cool that you use one, Og. It’s a thumb-your-nose gesture at the triple-blade, battery-operated, Santa sledding down the hill on the rotary blade world. (If we didn’t see that ad, how would we know it’s Christmas?) Good on you!
your humble TubaDiva
who has a straight razor or two around here somewhere, but is not exactly sure why.
Jenny: I don’t think that ad has been around since 1964.
I’m just saying. Yes, I remember it too.
But, thanks!
I do believe they resurrected ol’ Santa; I’ve seen it since my childhood.
Maybe they just show it down here. I’ve seen it contemperaneously with ads for the Clapper, that’s how I know it’s Christmas.
your humble TubaDiva
These days, I usually see ’em . . . right around Labor Day.
LOL! It could be I don’t see ’em because I never watch regular TV.
Still, we’re showing our age. As is Norelco.
the real mazool
I’ve read a lost of razorblogging posts lately, and I think most of them are full of shit. I am…
No way og — jenny’s right. Santa riding the (I think) Norelco down the hill is a Christmas repeat to this day (brings to mind the old Burl Ives-narrated Frosty the Snowman C’mas animation) —
But sir, I must ask: can one use such a razor under a morning condition caused by lack of oxygen to the medula (i.e., hung over)?
Found my way here from NGD. Glad to visit.
I guess I must just not watch enough regular TV.
Rudolph the rednose reindeer, ah, yes.
Like sands through the hourglass of time, these are the days of Burl Ives.