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This weekend the Financial Times in London wrote about Shaveblog and credited my original article and Today Show segment for starting the wetshaving boom. The article even credited me for coining the phrases "shavegeek" and "faceturbation", which my father, visiting for the weekend, was especially proud of.

It's really wild -- here we are in November, and my original article and TV segment from way back in February are still making news around the world. Clearly, the whole issue of men hating shaving and then flipping their lids when they discover how much nicer and more pleasurable it can be when you kick it old-school is still resonating around the world.

Thanks to this blog and the word-of-mouth that's brought tens of thousands of unique visitors like the Financial Times's reporter here every day, more men are throwing down their Mach3's and Quattros and discovering just how great shaving can be when you do it with a single-blade razor, a badger hair brush, and shaving cream that comes in an old fashioned tub, not a can. It makes me very glad indeed that I was able to help turn millions of guys on to a better shave.

I'm also glad that besides me and Shaveblog, the FT article also highlighted wetshaving retailers Charles Roberts of Enchante and Robert Johnston of The Gentleman's Shop. Along with Ray DuPont of Classic Shaving (who supplied all of the shaving products for the NBC segment and was an invaluable source of information and inspiration) and the other US wetshaving vendors like Lee's Razors, Em's Place, and QED, it's these stalwart retailers who are the true center of the shaving community. They've been beating the drum for traditional wetshaving for many years, and I'm happy they're getting an explosion of new customers in the wake of all of this media attention.

Okay, back to the business at hand. I keep getting emails from out-of-breath shavegeeks demanding to know the identity of the "miracle razor" that's turned my shaving upside down in recent weeks. I keep telling you guys I don't want to spill the beans and start another eBay feeding frenzy like I did when I opened my big, fat mouth about how great old Schick Injectors are, but you won't listen. So I'll give you a couple of clues, but then you're on your own.

I already gave you the first clue in the last Shaveblog entry. Look at that Boney M album cover. That's really all you need to know, to be honest with you. A real Gillette historian, or any imbecile armed with a can of Spicy Cajun Pringles and Google, could figure out what razor I'm using just by studying the Boney M cover.

Haven't had that eureka moment and scurried over to eBay yet? Okay, here's another clue:



Forgive me if this one's too easy. I blame the sugar high I'm riding tonight. Not enough sullen teens came by and I've got bags of candy that aren't going to eat themselves.