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  1. holysmokes

    Have you selected your Christmas tobacco yet?

    @joshwolftree, Thanks for the link to the SH episodes. Most of them I have. If you go to my website, Byzantine Catholic Priest, and go to "Father Michael's Radio Theater, I began this weekend to air an almost forgotten series of 16 shows starring John Gielgud as Holmes and Ralph Richardson as...
  2. holysmokes

    Have you selected your Christmas tobacco yet?

    Here's mine. It's C&D's 2012 Christmas blend entitled "Chestnuts Roasting."
  3. holysmokes

    Erik Nording Signature with two-toned grain.

    The annual pipe show at Ron Kern's Tobacco Village in Whitehall, PA, was great this year. Here's what I came away with: it's an Erik Nording Signature Pipe (my third), but this one has an unusual two-colored grain. I also splurged on the Peterson ashtray; it has two pipe caddies on it -- never...
  4. holysmokes

    Why can't I enjoy any "real" tobaccos?

    Goodness! Some great advice here. It'll take some time to digest it all. Guess it's time to light up.
  5. holysmokes

    Why can't I enjoy any "real" tobaccos?

    Sorry for the provocative subject header, but let me explain... I'm told by my tobacconist that I'm strictly a cavendish man (or an aromatic man, as the case may be). I smoke a half-and-half mixture of pure burley and black cavendish -- sometimes just the black cavendish alone. Every once in a...
  6. holysmokes

    Pipe smoking in the movies.

    I didn't realize there's already a thread about movies. I'll be more careful next time.
  7. holysmokes

    Pipe smoking in the movies.

    One of my favorite pipe smoking films is "The House of Fear" starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Here's some of the more notable dialog: Watson: "There's nothing like the first pipe of the morning. Can I try some of yours?" [Capt. Simpson offers his open jar, blowing smoking in Watson's...