2024-06-03 - Soylent Green
- Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Glacial Electric Sheep
- Razor: Clix E-Z Flo #RUSTYBUTTRUSTY
- Brush: Yaqi Metal Timberwolf
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - D-503
- Post Shave: Alum, definitely not Osma
- Fragrance: Imaginary Authors - Telegrama
Where's the Beef: Mutton
Side note: Check out this
rust-free patina. No rusty butts here!
Unifying Theme: Literature
The title of the novel is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
Dude, people aren't even said to dream of sheep.
You're thinking of "counting sheep"; the dreaming part comes later.
You should know better than that, Dick.
::ahem::
Philip K. Dick, of course.
Speaking of dystopian-future novels that I've never read,
D-503 is the name of the protagonist of Мы (We) by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
I wish I could have kept the dystopian-future thing going,
but I had to widen the scope to literature in general,
which is fine because I make the rules!
Even if Imaginary Authors almost feels like cheating,
the aethetic of Telegrama seems at least
vaguely appropriate.
#photocontest
Steampunk is an aesthetic genre that answers the question,
"What if technology was only hot water and clocks and we dressed up all horny about it?"
(paraphrased from u/BennyFeldman @1:25)
I didn't think I was going to have an opportunity to organically
incorporate this into any photo during the Games, but I think
it happens to fit, also vaguely, with the dystopian-future element of
much of my setup today, so that works out. Serendipitous!
#FOF
Are you familiar with mosquito-repellent candles? I am not. If you're unfamiliar
with Electric Sheep, it's worth noting that Stirling has a WARNING on the
product page imploring people to try a sample before a full tub.
I'm pretty sure I dove straight into the latter when I bought this.
I don't know what the fuss is about. It's strong, but refreshing.
Like Lemon Pledge, maybe? I don't know what Lemon Pledge smells like.
It's intense, and the Glacial menthol kicks the entensity levels up to Awesome.
"Not for the faint of heart," indeed.
A dupe of Legend by Mont Blanc, D-503 transitions smoothly,
perhaps thanks to its citrus notes, although those
same citrus notes are the reason (maybe along with the purported 'dried fruit')
that I opted to target the D-503 soap that I had in order to use it up and
get it off my shelf.
It's not that I don't like it—quite the contrary;
tonka and light florals effectively mute the citrus—but it's not a contender
for being among my favorites.
Telegrama deviates sharply from D-503, coming in
firing on all cylinders with powder and linen, falling away to a firm assertion of vanilla.
It's a very clean scent that, in retrospect, actually makes for a pretty
excellent pairing with the sharp cleanness of Sheep. Serendipitous!
I suspect it would also tightly intermingle with Maggard's Barbershop and such
soaps that use that scent mix. But I digress.
OnionMiOsma Day:
I've noticed a tendency in jobs that I've had,
in which I inherited some task—a report or the like—and I later discover that the
person I inherited it from hadn't developed a good understanding of it.
Not only did that person not know the "why," but it later turns out that
the exec or whoever who originally asked for it never really even cared that
much about it, not then and especially not now.
I'm convinced that this challenge is the same.
Alum is handy stuff, but no one really gives a shit about Osma.
For example, consider this
pristine block of Osma.
I'll never need it, because the
giant, chemically-identical rocks of the stuff
that I got for a fraction of the price of that tiny block will last me forever.