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  1. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    H&H Magnum Opus in a Peterson Hudson. Enjoying a richer blend during this cooler weather, because we're supposed to jump back up to nearly 100/F this Sunday.
  2. marlinspike

    James Joyce, the Dubliners and the Pipe

    I've read that Swift was fairly careful in his public life about being seen with her, but this may be a reflection that, as always, there's a morality that is expected that the common folk observe, but that their "betters" aren't obliged to. I agree that Dublin is an interesting place to visit...
  3. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    Sounds like very pleasant weather to me!
  4. marlinspike

    James Joyce, the Dubliners and the Pipe

    I admire anyone who can do much of anything while smoking a pipe simultaneuously. I've tried to work in the yard with a pipe, tried to read, and I just can't seem to make it work. Smoking a pipe has therefore become a kind of meditation to me, the closest I get to meditation, anyway. When I...
  5. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    C&D Star of the East flake in a Falcon shillelagh stem with a rusticated meerschaum bowl. Strong-brewed black tea with a generous dollop of cream to accompany.
  6. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    What's your verdict?
  7. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    Wilke Commander in a Peterson SH Hudson. Ice water with orange slices to accompany.
  8. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    Briarworks Peach Cobbler in a Volkan bullcap.
  9. marlinspike

    HONEY! Really?

    My experience closely mirrors @hoosierpipeguy - all these forms of building cake can just as readily be accomplished with - wait for it! - just packing and smoking the pipe in question. If you want to lay down a few layers of carbonization in a new pipe, smoke a few bowls of Carter Hall or...
  10. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    C&D Star of the East flake in a no-name meerschaum bent billiard. Overcast this morning, and is forecast to be 9-10 degrees cooler this afternoon than yesterday.
  11. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    What did you include in your order?
  12. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    The weather's still very warm, and I didn't want to puff a blend with any robustness, so I've got Wilke Vermont Maple Cavendish in a Volkan bullcap, along with ice water. Thinking cool autumn thoughts while the summer rolls along. Yes, I'm one of those tiresome fall & winter people who drive...
  13. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    Hope it all goes well for you!
  14. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    C &D Black Frigate in a Falcon bent stem with briar billiard bowl. Masala chai with light honey sweetening, to accompany.
  15. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    HH Old Dark Fired in a Falcon shillelagh stem with a rusticated meerschaum bowl. Ice water and orange slices to accompany. Going to be pretty hot this afternoon.
  16. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    A final bit of Walter Raleigh Aromatic that I had misplaced, until I came across it this evening - enough for a bowlful in a MM Missouri Pride cob.
  17. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    H & H Magnum Opus in a MM Missouri Pride cob.
  18. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    Sounds like a winner of a blend!
  19. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    A new Peterson Sherlock Holmes Hudson landed with today's mail from Dear Old Blighty, and I'm about to load it up with some Carter Hall and do a little burley break in session.
  20. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    I have the 45 rpm reissue from Analogue Productions.