The Lex Files:
A Retired Blog

Ramblings

December 12, 2003 on 6:47 pm | In Leth and Sex News, Life Updates, Television

As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, a screw-up involving my name has ruined me, if by ruined me, you mean made me not be the first result for ‘Lex Friedman’ when you search Google, which I do.

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Line of Fire has now shown two episodes, each of which was excellent. But what has ABC done with NYPD Blue? Why can’t Sipowicz Sipowitz Dennis Franz’s character and friends get a regular television season? I know it’ll come back, but why interrupt it?

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A month or two ago, I had planned to share — I swear this is a true — a photo essay and written tribute to Shick’s new Quattro razor. (I use a mix of a Norleco Advantage electric shaver and a Gillete Mach 3 razor ‘normally.’) On a whim, I purchased the Quattro and was in love as I took it out of the box.

(The box was one of those super annoying vacuum-packed packages sealed to exactly fit the item — you know, the packaging that’s impossible to open without a scissors, upper body strength, a high tolerance for pain, and the alignment of specific celestial objects. But THIS annoying packaging had PERFORATIONS, so you could just pop the sucker right out of there!)

I put the razor to the test, where by “test” I mean, “skin.” Ouch! Ok, new razors sometimes take a few days to adjust to. But the problem with the Shick Quattro isn’t that it hurt to use the first time.

The problem is that it sucks.

You know how, when you use a razor, you chop off some hairs, rinse the blade, then chop off some more hairs, and so on? The Quattro is very bad at the second step — the rinse. There are four tightly-arranged blades (not surprisingly) on the Quattro. So tight are these blades, in fact, that even a high-pressure blast of water from the skin WON’T CLEAN THE JUST-CUT HAIR OUT OF THE RAZOR.

Which means that after, say, your right cheek, the blade is filled with hair and of no use to you anymore.

I’m thinking of putting the blade in the laundry machine.

I’ve literally shaved with the blade just 1.5 times, because I can’t get the sucker clean.

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