Is It Safe Yet? The Week After The Tabassacre

• Brush: Dogwood Handcrafts Tabak Oridjinal, now with 28 mm Gelousy knot
• Razor: Filarmonica 14 Doble Temple (8/8", extra full hollow, carbon steel)
• Lather: Mäurer & Wirtz Tabac Original
• Aftershave: Mäurer & Wirtz Tabac Original
• Fragrance: Mäurer & Wirtz Tabac Original

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I can’t believe that it has been already one week since the unsettling, alarming, uncalled-for, and traumatic shellacking that was last week’s Tabassacre. I’m still sore and raw and it feels like it was yesterday. My poor Stank Tank® seems to have somewhat recovered, though, praise be, and decided to come back out from the shadows where it and its brothers and sisters-in-stank have dwelled licking their wounds these last days.

With visible trepidation and audibly nervous, however, they delivered the Glorious Old Man Stank® and the stellar performance that comes from 65 years of experience as if nothing had happened. Wow. When praising acts of resistance and collective resilience, one should always worry about romanticising them too much and thus letting the perpetrators off the hook but I couldn’t help but sharing how impressed I was by today’s defiant stankback.