It's always nice to see mainstream media cover our little niche.
Who needs Facebook? These Flint guys have pipes
Who needs Facebook? These Flint guys have pipes
Great Local Media Article on Pipes Smokers & Paul's Pipe Shop, MI
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Nice article.
What I like to hear: "...meetings [with] no agenda or higher purpose other than enjoying some good whiskey and a pipe." :
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What I like to hear: "...meetings [with] no agenda or higher purpose other than enjoying some good whiskey and a pipe." :
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That store is insane. It's like an explosion in a pipe shop. There are pipes everywhere. I was up that way in 2008. They also have a pipe club in Michigan which has a small pipe show. It's around the same size the Ft Wayne show (RIP) used to be. I have never been to it but I bet it would be fun. There's also a bunch of college clubs in the state as well, and you have Brian Ruthenberg, Russ Cook, and Lee Von Erck who live in that state. Michigan is full of pipe smokers.
Great article! Two observations:
1) I'm starting to actually have some hope that pipe smoking isn't going to die off altogether in another generation or two.
2) Re: Cortez's comment...even though they say there is no "higher purpose" involved, I'd say there really is. Consider the following excerpt:
"You take forty-five minutes, an hour, out of every day, and sit and smoke a pipe, you're not putting new things onto your plate, and your subconscious is hashing out other things from your day," he said.
And he's clear that pipe smoking is different—not only in taste and smell, but in personality—than other forms of tobacco. Cigarettes are all about "instant gratification," he said. "Getting that nicotine, that's all it's about." Cigars suggest money and power, people who will pay twenty dollars for one smoke and throw half of it away, "because they can."Chewing tobacco and snuff imply yet other things.
But pipes—pipes are different.
"Pipes are associated with brotherhood, fatherhood, wisdom, thought, philosophy and also relaxation," he said.
In the context of today's society and culture, that qualifies as a higher purpose, imo. "Wisdom, thought and philosophy" are not exactly common place these days.
1) I'm starting to actually have some hope that pipe smoking isn't going to die off altogether in another generation or two.
2) Re: Cortez's comment...even though they say there is no "higher purpose" involved, I'd say there really is. Consider the following excerpt:
"You take forty-five minutes, an hour, out of every day, and sit and smoke a pipe, you're not putting new things onto your plate, and your subconscious is hashing out other things from your day," he said.
And he's clear that pipe smoking is different—not only in taste and smell, but in personality—than other forms of tobacco. Cigarettes are all about "instant gratification," he said. "Getting that nicotine, that's all it's about." Cigars suggest money and power, people who will pay twenty dollars for one smoke and throw half of it away, "because they can."Chewing tobacco and snuff imply yet other things.
But pipes—pipes are different.
"Pipes are associated with brotherhood, fatherhood, wisdom, thought, philosophy and also relaxation," he said.
In the context of today's society and culture, that qualifies as a higher purpose, imo. "Wisdom, thought and philosophy" are not exactly common place these days.
Great article, I really don't think pipes will die out. Everything old is new again! Men are finding out that they require relationships with other men, that it makes us more complete. We were not meant to be solo creatures who live in a nest and never venture out.
Great article!
Am I the only one who was a little amused and simultaneously a little sad at the captions underneath the photo stream attached to the article?
Joe Blow, 23, is one of the growing number of young people interested in using a pipe to smoke tobacco....
Amused at the pains the author took to infer IT'S NOT FOR THE REEFER and a little sad that it was necessary to do so!
Am I the only one who was a little amused and simultaneously a little sad at the captions underneath the photo stream attached to the article?
Joe Blow, 23, is one of the growing number of young people interested in using a pipe to smoke tobacco....
Amused at the pains the author took to infer IT'S NOT FOR THE REEFER and a little sad that it was necessary to do so!
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