Aug 29, 2021 – Austere August. Day 29.
- Prep: Hot Shower
- Brush: Zenith - B16 24mm Boar
- Razor: GEM Micromatic Open Comb Gen 2
- Blade: GEM PTFE (29)
- Lather: Stirling Soap Co. – Sheep
- Post Shave: Zingari Man – Unscented - Aftershave Balm
- Music: Tupac – Changes
Really nice shave today all around today. The MMOC gave me a nice, smooth shave, and while the blade is getting a little tired and doesn’t glide as well as it did earlier in the month, it still gives me a really, really good shave. I just strop it on my forearm before and after every shave now.
This Zenith brush may have slowly become my favorite brush. It’ll be fun to use one of my synthetic ones again to compare/contrast, but I’ve come to really enjoy this one far more than I ever expected. While the process of breaking it in wasn’t super-fun, it wasn’t as awful as I originally expected it to be.
Today’s #sidetracked is brought to you by ‘Pac. I’m an East Coast guy, but I always took the West Coast rap scene’s side in their East vs West feud. As a white kid growing up in Massachusetts, Tupac’s music spoke to me so much more than Biggie’s did. Changes was released after Tupac got ~~murdered by the LVPD~~ shot and killed and is a phenomenal song. Tupac was no saint, but he was clearly passionate about the problems people like him face on a daily basic. Listening to this song (that is about 25 years old) is interesting because it focuses on problems that we’ve since completely solved – police brutality, race relations, drugs, the struggle of poverty, and wars in the Middle-East. Thank God we’ve solved ALL of those issues in the last 25 years and we never hear about any of them at all anymore. I have to wonder what my kids will think of this song in another 25 years. I really hope Tupac is wrong when he says “That’s just the way it is”.
Tags: #unscented #rawhoggin #GEMsOfWisdom
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