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  1. dino

    What Is Your Craziest

    Early 1960s piled high pompadour:
  2. dino

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2025?***

    I sat out under the gazebo this July 4th. evening while my neighbors filled the sky with prodigious displays of fireworks trying to outdo each other. It was glorious. I savored a Fuente Fuente Opus X No. 4 and a glass of Jack Daniel's Old No. 7, Frank's Way, 3-2-1. (Mr. Sinatra drank his with...
  3. dino

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2025?***

    HeavyLeadBelly, hope you had a good one! Happy Birthday!
  4. dino

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2025?***

    Dan, our own Clay King! Sorry I'm a bit late, but... Belated Happy Birthday!
  5. dino

    What Are You Listening to? - July, 2025

    As this is the time of year we celebrate our National Birthday, here is a song from the Frank Sinatra short film The House I Live In, as performed by Frank and Neil Diamond:
  6. dino

    ***What Are You Smoking, June 2025?***

    I had a very nice meeting with the Sunday ZOOM group as I smoked my Big Ben Commodore 426 filled with McClelland's Samovar. A tall berg-filled tumbler of Peach/Mango Green Tea kept me hydrated.
  7. dino

    ***What Are You Smoking, June 2025?***

    While hangin' with the Usual Suspect on the Saturday afternoon ZOOM meeting, I smoked my 2002 Peterson POYT, a pipe my wife bought me at the Grafton Street store in Dublin during our trip in 2002, filled with 23-year-old University Flake. Great smoke and great company. My beverage on this humid...
  8. dino

    ***What Are You Smoking, June 2025?***

    During the Saturday afternoon Zoom meeting with my guys, I smoked a bowl of 2015 Samovar in my 1964 Dunhill Tanshell 83 F/T Zulu. Great smoke, great friends, great conversations. A tall tumbler of Peach/Mango Green Tea with a fistful of bergs and a splash of Honey Jack was my beverage.
  9. dino

    ***What Are You Smoking, June 2025?***

    It was a nice warm afternoon, although quite cloudy. I relaxed under the gazebo as I smoked a bowl of recently purchased Newminster No. 400 folded and stuffed into my Colm Magner rusticated 1/4 bent billiard with a saddle stem. A large berg-filled tumbler of Bombay Sapphire and Fever Tree Tonic...
  10. dino

    Favorite Whole Album

    With respect to cosmic's original post, here are three of my favorite "concept" albums (of the more than a few thousand LPs in my collection) that are always played from opening track to closing track on my turntable: Only The Lonely by Frank Sinatra Waltz For Debby by the Bill Evans Trio Tommy...
  11. dino

    What Are You Listening To? - June, 2025

    Well, it's 'round midnight, so let the Misty Miss Christy usher in June:
  12. dino

    ***What Are You Smoking, May 2025?***

    I spent the afternoon with my ZOOM buddies while smoking a Sherlock Holmes themed combination: my 1891 A.D.P. pipe, with a bone stem, filled with year 1999 McClelland Arcadia Mixture. The pipe smoked beautifully, but the tobacco, though well mellowed with age, was too mild an English for me. My...
  13. dino

    What Are You Listening To? - May, 2025

    Miles Davis was born 99 years ago today, May 25, 1926. Here is "Flamenco Sketches" from Kind of Blue:
  14. dino

    ***What Are You Smoking, May 2025?***

    Just finished the Saturday afternoon Zoom meeting with my smokin' buddies. I filled my Peterson System Standard 305 with Drama Reserve and enjoyed the smoke, conversation and camaraderie. Our own cross-country "smoking tent".
  15. dino

    Arlington Pipe and Cigar (Illinois)

    This is the usual meeting place of the Chicagoland Pipe Collectors Club. We meet monthly and are well accommodated by the owners. And often, members of the club gather for a "social smoke" at the lounge on Thursdays. Check out the club website: https://chicagopipeclub.com/
  16. dino

    ***What Are You Smoking, May 2025?***

    SmokeyJock, sorry I missed a timely birthday greeting: Happy Belated Birthday!
  17. dino

    What Are You Listening To? - May, 2025

    Pete Townshend is 80 years old today (5-19-45)!
  18. dino

    ***What Are You Smoking, May 2025?***

    While hangin' with my Saturday afternoon Zoom buddies, I smoked a bowl of 1989 McClelland No. 24 Virginia in my Cellini (Victory Pipe Craftsmen of Chicago) partially rusticated bulldog. I sipped the usual Peach/Mango Green Tea with bergs and a splash of Honey Jack as we spoke of many things, of...
  19. dino

    ***What Are You Smoking, May 2025?***

    I'm still not caught up on this thread since the Chicago Show. But I thought I might at least mention my smokes at the show. Friday night in the tent I sat with a bunch of friends and smoked Samovar in my Peterson Sherlock Holmes Hudson. Saturday evening, late, I sat with some of my fellow club...
  20. dino

    What Are You Listening To? - May, 2025

    Keith Jarrett (May 8, 1945), from the best-selling solo album in jazz history and the best-selling piano album, The Köln Concert. This is the 50th. anniversary of this concert and album. Keith plays the final piece, "Part IIc".