SOTN July 1 ??
prep - shower with Caprina Fresh Goat’s Milk Fragrance Free bar soap
razor - Canadian Pre-War Fat-handled Tech
blade - Feather (4)
brush - Synbad
soap - Nivea Men Protect & Care shave cream
post - warm water rinse, lots of styptic pencil (Clubman “Jumbo") DSA “Pure & Natural” alum, cold water rinse
aftershave - Clubman Vanilla
music - Moon Phase Radio
Oi!
There I was, on my third pass, thinking "Gee, I've had this Tech for years, but now it seems much milder than I thought."
Immediately following that thought — "snick* — a hole appears an inch below the middle of my bottom lip and blood starts gushing out. Even after many applications of styptic pencil, alum, and cold water rinsing it continued to drip down my chin. This from a cut that looked to be only 2 or 3 millimetres long.
I had to carry around a damp wash cloth for half an hour to wipe the blood off now and again. Good thing it was "Espresso" coloured. Eventually I resorted to applying stamp-sized piece(s) of Kleenex to slow it down, just like Homer does. I've never had to do that before in my life.
We could be Heroes, just for one day.
- David Bowie -