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

[Boko_Fittleworth]

DPE Mixture from Leavitt & Pierce in Cambridge, MA, in a Castello Sea Rock.

 

[PaulRVA]

Paul, it is a forgone conclusion that "all things cool" originate with you....... or at least in your back yard.

Dean Martin used to come to you for lessons and tips on how to be hip.....
Mick Jagger calls you to find out where the cool parties are happening.....
Clint Eastwood studied under your oversight to develop the "stare" for his "Man with no name" westerns....
Peyton Manning used to text you for tips on how to read defenses in the NFL....

But for us that are made of lesser stuff, what in the hell does "Out with the wife to get her wig smoked" mean???

Does it mean getting her hair cut or "done?"
Or maybe getting white powder placed on a literal wig so she can serve as a British Barrister?
Perhaps it's a hipster thingy???

I just "gots" to know!!!

It’s Street Lingo for getting your hair cut! Example: Holly Golightly, played by Audrey Hepburn, nibbling on a croissant as she gazes into the window of New York’s Tiffany & Co
had her “Wig Smoked” prior to the famous scene which helped her keep her youthful appearance and added style to the iconic scene.
Example 2: Not more than 2 minutes after getting off the Bus and finishing the duffle bag drag we were in the chair getting our “Wigs Smoked”

 

[JimInks]

Almost half way through this bowl of year 2024 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Fed everything that looks like a cat. Abner the Eager is the only feral who is inside. He's snoozin' away the afternoon now. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[Bananacaravanadium]

Van is packed for the camping trip and I’m having a bowl of Yorktown before we hit the road. Trusty Savinelli Roma

 

[warren99]

GLP Samarra in an S. Bang “B” bent brandy.

 

[Peter Turbo]

Simply Cavendish in a Meer

 

[PaulRVA]

Simply Cavendish in a Meer
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That’s a stunner with that cap and stem combo !

 

[Peter Turbo]

That’s a stunner with that cap and stem combo !

Thanks! The stummel is Tekin Meerschaum and the band/stem was done by Ryan Alden after I chomped through the original acrylic.

 

[Skink]

C&D Cavendish Cut Burley in a Savinelli Trevi #311 KS Poker with a mug of black coffee.

 

[bobpnm]

Burley Flake #3 in this old Peterson Deluxe. Iced coffee (yes it’s leftover from breakfast) on the side. No one should be surprised the heat index is 115F. It is summer in the Florida Panhandle.

 

[Roach1]

Briar Fox in a Savinelli Dolimiti 311KS.

 

[JimInks]

Did a set of walking reps on this hot and very humid day, and smoked a bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in a slight bent black pattern etched 1977 Lorenzo Lorsan Sigma level top billiard with a gray swirl acrylic saddle stem. Got Daisy the Feral Princess and Tomato the Brave in before the next thunderstorm comes. I hear the booms and bangs in the sky now, and the rain is about to start. Dunno where Harry the Hairy is.

 

[Peterson314]

Had a bowl of Noble Aztec (RIP) in my Peterson 05 Copper Spigot Christmas pipe. It doesn't exactly feel like Christmas--this heat and humidity has been unbearable. But the pipe is nice, and I got in a session in the shade.

 

[type B]

MB Vanilla Roll Cake in a cob

 

[Puff nstuff]

Granger in a cob, followed by some Mixture 79 in the same, with my morning coffee. It's a warm and sunny day in Southern California. Cheers!

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am almost a third of the way through this bowl of year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Gold Star Peruvian Macchu Picchu, neat, is my drink.

 

[JOHN72]

Having Sutliff The Old Boss 175th Anniversary in a marTelo (Gustavo Cunha) Sandblasted Swan Neck Bent Billiard with Ivorite accent and purple and pink swirled Vulcanite stem.

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I’m glad this went over well. It was a lot of fun to put together. I’ve amassed enough little doodads to change little things up once in awhile and look forward to doing so. This kind of thing reminds me of when I was in art school. My friends and I would create artwork to amuse each other, almost like making inside jokes within a class assignment. Much of the time, we got inspired by each other and made the art for each other. This forum is often times very much the same for me—I get inspired because of many of you, whether it’s to make a fake tobacco blend to amuse a single member (or all of you), or to go to the nth degree with something as goofy as creating an entire environment for a pipe rest. I explored 1:12 stuff far deeper than I expected, especially for what started out as a whim and amounts to an amusement, but if you’re going to do something, you may as well do it right. Plus, it’s fun.

Speaking of art school, I had a part-time job in my freshman year at the School of Visual Arts in 1981–82. My friend, John B. and I would punch in our time cards, and sweep up several drawing rooms in two different buildings. It usually didn’t take too long, so we would stop into a little hole in the wall candy store on 23rd Street that had a Williams Defender machine. We would play Defender until it was time to punch out. All of the top scores were held by someone with the initials “ABM” with 999,975 points holding each spot. One evening, ABM was in the store playing; that’s when we learned about shooting all the Landers that were picking up people before they could turn into Mutants, catching the humanoids and holding onto them while reversing back and forth to kill Baiters and landing all the people before killing the last adversary onscreen for bonus points. That’s when we also learned that ABM would just let himself die when his score reached 999,975 so that he could hold and fill all of the top scores—if you scored any more points, the count would roll over to 0 and you’d be playing an advanced level, but have your score start from the beginning. It wasn’t long before John and I were turning over the machine and playing for over an hour on a single quarter, much to the dismay of the shop owner. I also got very good at Robotron 2084 and was able to turn that over eventually (I bought an Atari 7800 to make a dedicated Robotron 2084 set up at home and still have it). I never played Stargate long enough to get good at it. The Inviso button was a fun twist, but I didn’t put in the kind of hours playing to get good enough to ever turn the machine over.

Believe me, if there were good 1:12 scale Williams arcade machines like Defender, Robotron 2084, or Stargate, they would’ve been part of my little room. There is a dealer who had a so-so 1:12 scale Defender, but the real deal breaker is that it has a generic plastic base with two joysticks—I refuse to have something so “wrong” for Defender in my little microcosm, hence my inclusion of the more accurate, albeit slightly less cool 1:12 scale Namco machines.

With my little foray into the 1:12 scale dollhouse world, I’ve learned it’s no different than anything people get passionate about like pipes—if there’s something you want, chances are someone makes it—it can be crappy (or acceptable) and made by a factory in China, halfway decent by a guy with a 3D printer, or beautifully done by an artisan, all at commensurate price points. I got the pipes from a dealer that sells all kinds of dollhouse scale stuff and was pleasantly surprised that these were decent enough that I wouldn’t be embarrassed to include them in the scene.

Once Larry mentioned pets, I knew I needed to have a little version of Wasabi included (those of you that follow the WAYS thread for cigars are very familiar with him). This 3D printed sculpt is a good bit chunkier than our little tyke, but I was just thrilled that I could even order a long haired Chihuahua. It was fun to paint it to match Wasabi’s markings (Susan asked if I included the little lighter fur friar hairline on the back of his tiny head—I did).

@Sobrbiker Your quote got deleted, but I meant to include it.

Really beautiful. I love it.

 

[krizzose]

McClelland 40th Anniversary in a Savinelli Zulu. The tin outshines the rather pedestrian pipe

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

This morning,Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

The bowl this morning was so good, I decided to trepidation the Sir John's Flake Virginia in the same Altinok.