Now smoking year 2016 Peter Heinrichs Special Curly in a straight smooth brown 1950s The Saint James London Pipe (Comoy’s second) 185M billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
***What Are You Smoking, July 2024?***
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1996 McCranie’s Red Flake in a smooth Nate Rose wide shank dubdog, a drink, and a new book. Happy Friday.
F****ng A brother!Capped off a very strange week that I'm relieved is now in the past with a bowl of Cult BRM in an Al Pascia meer and a Sam Smith lager. Much cooler than they said it'd be, high 70s in my shaded smoking area next to the house. Forgot how hard I can push this blend and still have no chance of tongue tingle. 8.6/10.
Bird report: Western bluebird, California scrub-jay, California towhee, House finch, Steller's jay, American crow, Vaux's swift, Oak titmouse, Hairy woodpecker, White-breasted nuthatch, and Mountain chickadee.
Okay, rant time with Servant King...avert your eyes!
Rarely am I so deeply in thought during an especially long bowl as this (meer's got a pretty deep chamber, as you can see), but I was this time, chiefly due to the global IT problems. It's really just a symptom of a greater problem--this is what happens when you do away with common sense and put EVERYTHING (and I mean that word quite literally) in the hands of the AI. Every single freaking function of life from the global financial markets down to the weather report lying about the temperature here today by a large margin (14 degrees!) has become so utterly dependent on the AI, of course it stands to reason that something like this would happen! Which really just exposes how fragile the whole damn thing is, and it goes without saying that there's no way this is going to get anything other than worse. For a long time I've done my best to withdraw as much as possible from that whole system; I only use cash, I never use a cellphone unless I have to, and I NEVER do software updates on my computer unless I'm literally forced to. Look what happens when the AI decides it's time for another unnecessary "upgrade!" They've got themselves a 10010101011111011100100001010 pipe problem now...
Pessimism is merely the calling card of a denialist, so I don't even wanna hear it! Happy weekend all.
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….and that’s a beautiful meer.
Peterson MM 965 in a new (4th smoke now) IMP bent egg meerschaum. One of two new pipes gifted to me by my wife for my birthday.
Bob’s Chocolate 
Flake in an IMP
Poker
Darn mosquitoes are in force this evening and so much so the thermocells aren’t even biting back.
Rare we have them like this but the weather has been perfect for them.
Flake in an IMPPoker
Darn mosquitoes are in force this evening and so much so the thermocells aren’t even biting back.
Rare we have them like this but the weather has been perfect for them.
Nice
I don't think I've seen this one before. Birth year Dunhill?
BTW I enjoy your backgrounds
The Wager is on my list, but I keep bumping it. I'd be curious to know what you think once you've put a dent in it. Reading The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson right now.
Thank you! Glad you didn't avert your eyes as instructed...
I had a bowl of Sutliff #502 Medium English in a Falcon affixed with a block meerschaum bowl. I can't say that this pouch has produced any good smokes yet; I get a sour bitterness that isn't terribly appealing or tasty, though so far I've only tried it in this particular pipe, and for the next smoke I should break out the cob to give the blend a fair shake. I think I'll head out right now to do just that!
That is not a rant brother, that's the truth and I'm right there with ya.Capped off a very strange week that I'm relieved is now in the past with a bowl of Cult BRM in an Al Pascia meer and a Sam Smith lager. Much cooler than they said it'd be, high 70s in my shaded smoking area next to the house. Forgot how hard I can push this blend and still have no chance of tongue tingle. 8.6/10.
Bird report: Western bluebird, California scrub-jay, California towhee, House finch, Steller's jay, American crow, Vaux's swift, Oak titmouse, Hairy woodpecker, White-breasted nuthatch, and Mountain chickadee.
Okay, rant time with Servant King...avert your eyes!
Rarely am I so deeply in thought during an especially long bowl as this (meer's got a pretty deep chamber, as you can see), but I was this time, chiefly due to the global IT problems. It's really just a symptom of a greater problem--this is what happens when you do away with common sense and put EVERYTHING (and I mean that word quite literally) in the hands of the AI. Every single freaking function of life from the global financial markets down to the weather report lying about the temperature here today by a large margin (14 degrees!) has become so utterly dependent on the AI, of course it stands to reason that something like this would happen! Which really just exposes how fragile the whole damn thing is, and it goes without saying that there's no way this is going to get anything other than worse. For a long time I've done my best to withdraw as much as possible from that whole system; I only use cash, I never use a cellphone unless I have to, and I NEVER do software updates on my computer unless I'm literally forced to. Look what happens when the AI decides it's time for another unnecessary "upgrade!" They've got themselves a 10010101011111011100100001010 pipe problem now...
Pessimism is merely the calling card of a denialist, so I don't even wanna hear it! Happy weekend all.
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I wish it were just a rant, believe me. That way y'all could just tell me to shut up and go back to my Montel Williams and my 40 of Steel Reserve.
I kid. I'm more of a Ricki Lake kinda guy...
Bone dry Amphora Kentucky in an Andreas Bauer straight billiard sterling silver spigot meerschaum with acrylic stem and 9mm filter.
... its contours and edges" (?) --- what an absolutely awesome phrase (!!!)
By the way, I still have some McClelland Oriental #14, from about '05 or '06. If interested, I'd be open to trading some samples of it for And So To Bed.
‘23 Rouxgaroux, hanging with my boy…..conversations without words are some of the best.
PS LBF in the same Peterson I was smoking earlier.
the new GL Pease Horizons. Its good but its hard for me to name a Pease Blend that isn't good.
Another Cigar tonight: Oliva Free Will
Okay, having now finished a bowl of Sutliff #502 Medium English smoked for the first time in the pictured MM Morgan, I can say that it appears that this blend does not present well in my Falcon Meerschaum. In the cob it was much more pleasant, giving the latakia-smoky & lightly soapy notes (both in room note and flavor) that I expect from English blends, rather than the sour, bitter, almost acrid aromas/flavors that I was getting in the Falcon.
I wouldn't say it's a great blend, but at least it was much better this time around than the previous two times I'd smoked it. Next time I'll try it in a briar.
Near the half way mark of this bowl of 2019 C&D Yorktown in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Terracotta 4AB No.108/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem.
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