Category Archives: Out of the Ashes

Hobgoblins of Consistency

By G. L. Pease In one of his essays on Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emmerson wrote, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers […]

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Indistinguishable from Magic

By G. L. Pease What makes a truly great, memorable smoke? I don’t mean the every day good smoke that we become accustomed to, but those stand-out smokes where everything […]

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The Blends of Summer

By G. L. Pease There’s more than a little irony to be found in the notion that, as I begin to write an article about seasonal smoking, and especially summer […]

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Affordable Luxury

By G. L. Pease Recently, the "market value" of some vintage, no longer produced blends seems to have skyrocketed to record-setting altitudes. A 2oz tin of a once popular English […]

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Making it Real

By G. L. Pease Pipe smoking today is often a solitary affair. We are too frequently accompanied only by a good book, good spirits, and our thoughts when striking the […]

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The Stuff of Legend

By G. L. PeaseMemory tells me it was the summer of 1977 or 1978. Giants game at the ‘Stick. I was in the bleachers with a friend who didn’t smoke […]

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Saving for a Rainy Day

By G. L. Pease In the early 1980s, when I first took up the pipe seriously, aging tobaccos wasn’t something many smokers talked about. Most pipe smokers simply bought their […]

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Shapes of Things

By G. L. Pease It’s almost universally accepted that different pipes can smoke differently and taste unlike one another. Much talk about wood sources, curing methods, airway diameters, stem funnels […]

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Don’t Think of a Purple Giraffe

By G. L. Pease In some ways, what follows is sort of a continuation of my last column, The Fickle Nature of First Impressions, so if you haven’t read it, […]

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The Fickle Nature of First Impressions

By G. L. Pease I’ve always wondered a little about guys who claim to know everything they need to about a tobacco blend from only a single bowl, or, in […]

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