Thread: Sun August 11th - Sat August 17th

Originally Posted by celestino

* Thank you for your kind words, Carl! i had never heard of Caravaggio.
Also, my "i" completely understands your "i". Both our eyes see each other in the same way and we, all, will always share the same view no matter if we view it differently.

Nice words. You are a real Gentleman.

Originally Posted by ElTioDelUkelele

http://straightrazorpalace.com/shave...ml#post1196511

I've a DonJae Chopper with blue acrylic scales, and i love it. But your red one is stunning.

Originally Posted by celestino

Originally Posted by sashimi

... Custom silvertip badger brush ... The smoother your shave, the quicker it goes, but the longer you want it to last. The tuggier the shave, the longer it lasts, but the quicker you want it to be over... It must be nature's laugh at us.

* That is a fantastic brush handle!

That brush is a dream, i quote Celestino. I like that funny thought!!

Originally Posted by sashimi

I like the toilet seat in that composition!

You are not the first ... and the answer is: to share is an intimate thing!

Originally Posted by celestino

* Thank you for your kind words, Carl! i had never heard of Caravaggio.

Caravaggio was an absolutely incredible artist. We were very fortunate here in Ottawa a couple of years ago to have an exhibit called "Caravaggio and his Followers in Rome" visit the National Gallery. I don't think it was a one-off show, but rather may have been a travelling exhibit touring the world. But if you do see it coming to your part of the world, don't pass up the opportunity. He was truly a master, and as can be seen by the works of his 'followers', awfully influential too.

Not to mention a bit bonkers. He lived quite the eventful (albeit too short) life.

Originally Posted by Cangooner

Caravaggio was an absolutely incredible artist. We were very fortunate here in Ottawa a couple of years ago to have an exhibit called "Caravaggio and his Followers in Rome" visit the National Gallery. I don't think it was a one-off show, but rather may have been a travelling exhibit touring the world. But if you do see it coming to your part of the world, don't pass up the opportunity. He was truly a master, and as can be seen by the works of his 'followers', awfully influential too.

Not to mention a bit bonkers. He lived quite the eventful (albeit too short) life.

Yeah. I love the fact he used to swagger around with a sword, and brawl and stuff. He used peasants to represent people from the Bible in his works, which was very much frowned upon by the church. There's a web site that discusses the mystery surrounding his death. I'm buoyed by the fact that, stemming from this conversation, I now know what to do tomorrow; I'm going to the art gallery...

Friday

Razor | Mühle R 89 | Soap | Edwin Jagger Sea Buckthorn| After Shave | Lavanda | EDT | Joop! Jump

Quick shave with the DE this morning. The Lavanda went well with the Joop!. There was only time for a quick workout at lunchtime; just bench presses, lat pulldowns and some arm curls and dips.

Also, no bouldering tomorrow because my son has a bad back. I guess a bit of a rest is good, especially as I noticed some bruising of my fingers the other day…

From my Orange Daytona

Originally Posted by sashimi

That is a fine read. It reminds me of one of my favourite passages from the great mister Huxley in his more morose moments writing about the impossibility of communication. Here goes:

"We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes. Most island universes are sufficiently like one another to Permit of inferential understanding or even of mutual empathy or "feeling into." Thus, remembering our own bereavements and humiliations, we can condole with others in analogous circumstances, can put ourselves (always, of course, in a slightly Pickwickian sense) in their places. But in certain cases communication between universes is incomplete or even nonexistent. The mind is its own place, and the Places inhabited by the insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling. Words are uttered, but fail to enlighten. The things and events to which the symbols refer belong to mutually exclusive realms of experience."
— Aldous Huxley (The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell)


I like the toilet seat in that composition!

Oh well now, I love Aldous Huxley, I especially like 'Chrome Yellow', I have an audio book of it that I could listen to until I die. I haven't read The Doors of Perception; and I don't really like Brave New World, but I love how Chrome Yellow alludes to some of the themes in Brave New World. I also like Those Barren Leaves; and love how that alludes a little to Chrome Yellow. Aldous was on a journey, I think.

Back to our regularly scheduled program...(you guys are some DEEP thinkers).
The Brummel did its job silently and well, coupled with the PdP products, a blissfull shave for the end of the work week!

Have a Great Friday Gents!

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Oh well now, I love Aldous Huxley, I especially like 'Chrome Yellow', I have an audio book of it that I could listen to until I die. I haven't read The Doors of Perception; and I don't really like Brave New World, but I love how Chrome Yellow alludes to some of the themes in Brave new World. I also like Leaves of Grass; and love how that alludes a little to Chrome Yellow. Aldous was on a journey, I think.

You need a good orator (think that's the proper word for reader) to make an audio book great, my wife used to listen to them while she ironed, some of them were probably good books, but if I didn't like the voice of the reader then it was ruined.

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Also, no bouldering tomorrow because my son has a bad back. I guess a bit of a rest is good, especially as I noticed some bruising of my fingers the other day…

Sounds like an excuse to me
I like your bowl its pretty (but manly pretty)

Prep - None
Soap - Palmolive shave stick
Brush - Muhle XL synthetic silver tip
Strop - Neil Miller 3 inch shell Cordovan leather/English linen
Razor - Puma 18 rescale
Post - Alum Block
AS - Aqua Velva Ice Blue

Cold water face lathered shave.

Bob