Category Archives: Out of the Ashes

The NeatPipes/Radice AeroBilliard

G. L. Pease This little review has been a long time coming. Too long. I have my reasons, my excuses. And, this time, they’re actually pretty good ones. Mostly, it’s […]

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The Irony of Tolerance

G. L. Pease "A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts […]

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Looking In Mirrors

G. L. Pease Some years ago, a certain tobacco, one that was evidently quite popular, highly regarded, and fairly readily available, routinely found its way into my pipes. I bought […]

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Three By Three

G. L. Pease Some months back, I embarked on a little experiment, smoking three recently opened tins, and for reasons I can’t really explain (because I haven’t a clue), I […]

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Ashes to Ashes

G. L. Pease Over the years or decades that some of us have been pipe smokers, we’ve seen blends come, and more often go. For a variety of reasons, many […]

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Beauty and the Billiard

G. L. Pease In the (somewhat more than) three decades I’ve been accumulating pipes — I choose the word purposefully to distinguish the briar aggregation that currently shares my residence […]

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It’s Not That Simple

G. L. Pease After a few hundred years of people smoking pipes, you’d think we’d have figured it all out. It seems a simple thing: Choose a pipe, fill it […]

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Creatures of Habit

G. L. Pease What sort of pipe smoker are you today? Do you like to play the field, constantly trying new blends, endlessly seeking the next great pipe? Or are […]

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Nothing Endures but Change

G. L. Pease Decades ago, a talented blender in a small town Tobacconist’s Shoppe, in a land known for its fragrant and delicious blends, produced a magnificent mixture of such […]

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Indulge Your Pleasure

G. L. Pease I knew a guy whose pipes all had little grey, rectangular tags dangling from their shanks by thin white strings, each one showing the date of the […]

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