Thread: On My Birthday

Happy birthday. Enjoy and don't drink vodka and ...

Happy Birthday and many more to come. You paint a beautiful picture with words.

Happy Birthday, Obie! It's a relief to know you're only 27--that means we'll have the pleasure of your elegant, thoughtful posts for many years to come! Here's to you, my friend!

Brook

I don't know you Obie, but from reading your posts you strike me as a true gentleman.
As a new member here, your posts, to me at least, personify the spirit of SRP and help make my experience of visiting these boards a real pleasure.

Happy birthday!

Have a wonderful birthday Obie *hug*

Happy birthday!

You have given me lots of advice and guidance with your amazing posts. I hope to be able to help someone even half as much as you have for many of us.


Ps what is this Obie opus? Sounds interesting

Dear Uballit
May this year prove to be yet another year of health and prosperity. Furthermore, may 2010 (or your 27th year of celebration) harbor more additions to your Thiers Issard collection.

Did you hear? Thiers Issard is rumored to be forging a new blank called the "Obi(e) One Kenobi - Mark 27"!!

Have a wonderful and very happy birthday. Celebrate it with a bang...wish I was there to celebrate it with you, but since I can't...this one's for you Maestro . Cheers!

Originally Posted by Obie

Ladies and gentlemen:

Today is my birthday. I am 27 years old. I have been 27 for many decades.

I began to shave with the straight razor late in life, concluding that anytime is a good time to fulfill youth's dream. I wanted to shave with the straight razor many decades ago, but, as I have written here, life has a way of getting in the way. Mine did.

So here I am, on my birthday, at a late 27, with a modest collection of 20 straight razors, one of which, a gorgeous little 4/8" Wostenholm hollow point, I use for traveling.

I like all my razors. Some I love: the Filarmonic 13 Doble Temple, the Wacker 6/8" 1st Edition Sheffield steel with bone handle, and the 6/8" Revisor muted spike. The Thiers-Issards, however, outnumber all the other brands.

Yet, for me, shaving with the straight is less about having a large collection and more about the pleasure of shaving. I would be satisfied with just one razor, as long as I can lather up every morning and listen to the dialogue of the blade and my face.

No, a baby-bottom-smooth face is not my ultimate goal. The pleasure of the shave is what matters: the making of lather, the adventure of stropping, the feel of a great razor in my hands, and the final delight of applying aftershave. Life is full of sweet moments. That morning shave with the straight razor is one in a string of sweet moments in my day.

I shave every day. Of course, I must because of a heavy beard. Yet, if I had a light beard, I still would shave every day — as long as I can enjoy the ritual of wet shaving with the straight razor.

This morning, on my birthday, I lathered up with Castle Forbes, a 24 mm. Thater silver tip, and shaved with the 1/4 hollow Le Grelot. I had a great shave. Not, not because of the products I used; rather, it was because I did something l love today to celebrate the day I was born — in a far off land many decades ago.

So here is to the age of 27, my age, where I intent to remain for many more decades.

Regards,
Obie

Happy birthday Obie. May you have many beautiful shaves to satisfy your desires.


Mick

Originally Posted by BladeRunner001

Dear Uballit
May this year prove to be yet another year of health and prosperity. Furthermore, may 2010 (or your 27th year of celebration) harbor more additions to your Thiers Issard collection.

Did you hear? Thiers Issard is rumored to be forging a new blank called the "Obi(e) One Kenobi - Mark 27"!!

Have a wonderful and very happy birthday. Celebrate it with a bang...wish I was there to celebrate it with you, but since I can't...this one's for you Maestro . Cheers!

ROFL ... mark 27 'snort' !


To Obie, happy birthday, what a pleasure to read....


+B

Originally Posted by basil

Happy birthday!

You have given me lots of advice and guidance with your amazing posts. I hope to be able to help someone even half as much as you have for many of us.

Ps what is this Obie opus? Sounds interesting

Hello, basil:

Than you for the good wishes, and for the kind words. I am delighted to help out fellow gentlemen shavers.

"Obie's Opus" is my second book. The first, my novel, "Will's Music," is a gentle, sweet and sentimental love story set in the world of radio and dance in San Francisco. My good friend and SRP member LinacMan just finished reading "Will's Music" and tells me he liked it. That's good.

"Obie's Opus," on the other hand, is a collection of humorous anecdotes and little stories about the lives of the great composers. Also, "Obie's Opus" has a few autobiographical notes. Here's a snippet from the book:

When composer Giacomo Meyerbeer died, his nephew, while visiting Rossini, insisted on playing the march he had written for his uncle's funeral. Rossini listened to it. "Very nice," he said, "but wouldn't it have been better if you had died and your uncle had composed the march?"

The renowned conductor Toscanini loved everything about women: the games, the courtship and the ceremonies. He once wrote: "When I was very young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day and, believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco."

Anyway, the book is full is little stories like that. Thanks for asking.

Regards,
Obie