In-laws and that side of the family are gone... It's still about 55 out, so I'm taking a bowl of Sam Gawith Medium VF outside, and I'm also taking out the laptop so I can start watching CBGB on Netflix.
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In-laws and that side of the family are gone... It's still about 55 out, so I'm taking a bowl of Sam Gawith Medium VF outside, and I'm also taking out the laptop so I can start watching CBGB on Netflix.
Yeah... It's apparently a recreation of Bing Crosby's custom blend. His voice was a lot smoother than his tobacco.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruck
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How does the Medium compare with FVF? I don't see it for sale often.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndyCAYP
Now smoking the best durn tobacco made today: Strang in a 2003 smooth medium bent straight grain Ardor Venere Extra signed by Dorelio Rovera Dublin.
It's the lighter, brighter, sweeter little sister to FVF. Lots of oat, lemon, and cream. It's a phenomenal tobacco and one that, as you said, isn' available enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by c.ortiz108
SPC Deception Pass in a MM cob. This is one of my first tin tobaccos i've ever smoked and thumbs up on this first smoke.
SPS Alexander Bridge in my Middletonian
Getting in a bowl of Elizabethan Mixture in my pre-Republic Peterson Shamrock before the rain hits. Getting windy out here on the balcony.
Watch City Deluxe Crumb Cut in a 2015 Basil Meadows smooth straight thin shank and stem with an aluminum band Bing Crosby Merchant Service replica.
G&H Ennerdale Flake in a MM cob
Listing this a few minutes early: 2012 Rolando’s Own in a 2015 smooth unfinished Savinelli 320KS author.
Not far from finishing this bowl of Peter Heinrichs Curly Block in a mid-1970s black rusticated straight Savinelli Estella 915 KS billiard.
Just finished smoking MacBaren Symphony in a very ugly reddish color 1980 medium bend Lorenzo Leganza Sigma 8635 etched rough top.
Super Value Bourbon Whiskey in a 2002 IMP smooth full bend egg shaped meer.
Jim's Half Va., Half Burley w/Per in a 2003 medium bent straight grain Two dot 2 P. Ardor Venere Extra Bucaneve with a silver ferrule signed by Dorelio Rovera.
Do you think the displeasure is the Deer Tongue, or a bad blend?Quote:
Originally Posted by c.ortiz108
I believe the warm weather is what has my allergies in overdrive. Yesterday one bowl of custom blend by @NeverBend in a bent Irish Second. Right now, Pete's blend G in a small meer.
Wanting to smoke more, but my sinuses are a train wreck. Oh well.
Ennerdale while I read a fine presentation from The New Yorker on Orson Welles.
As with most film buffs I love Pauline Kael's writings, but I often wondered where her disdain for Welles came from. With so many holding her views as gospel, it's nice to see someone sticking up for the non-Kane works of Welles and helping to point out where Kael went wrong.
Orson Welles at a Hundred - The New Yorker
Windsail Original in a 2003 smooth Peterson Sherlock Holmes Series Baskerville.
Listing this early so I can concentrate on work for a while: Rich Dark Flake in a straight sandblasted black billiard 2013 PSF POY Kaywoodie with an amber colored lucite stem.
Bari Wiking....
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Good question. I seem to have an aversion to Burley so it may be that. I found the blend really harsh and cigarette-like. Even just a little snorking and incidental side stream inhaling irritated the hell out of my throat and sinuses. I'd like to try deer tongue in a non-Burley blend but I don't think one exists. I didn't really taste vanilla like people say.Quote:
Originally Posted by GWBowman
McClelland 2015 in a Comoy's Tawny Saddle #66.
Delicious.
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Try some C&D gentleman caller. Its a Burley, Perique, Virginia blend with less Deer Tongue.Quote:
Originally Posted by c.ortiz108
Been meaning to try some myself. maybe next baccy buy.
Not sure about the pipe, but it says "Ambassador" "Algerian Briar" and "Made in France"....
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GQ Christmas Blend 2015 in a 2003 IMP horn Meer.
Just fished a bowl of PS Lux Navy Flake in a Polo vest pipe.
I gotta say it: you know you can easily restore your stems, right? Not much efforts get them to a nice shiny black.Quote:
Originally Posted by droy1958
Candy Corn in a Cob
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Mississippi mud
I like the yellow look....I'm Chinese....Quote:
Originally Posted by c.ortiz108
More Elizabethan Mixture today. I forgot how much I liked this stuff. I'd ran out and hadn't ordered any more for about a month.
Got a tin in and it's darn near been all I've smoked since.
I have some of that Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture in my cart, but I'm trying to decide what else to buy....Quote:
Originally Posted by Cool Breeze
Long ago, in a galaxy far away..... Oops, wrong filmQuote:
Originally Posted by AndyCAYP
There used to be books, beginning in the early 1970s, that rated films (1 to 4 in 1/2 star increments) with capsule reviews. One of the earliest was by Leonard Maltin (when he was a yung feller).
I began writing alternate reviews on movies that I felt had been dissed. Continued for several years until I was sidetracked by my Magnum Opus, Greatest Worst Movies Ever Made, (no, not bad like, Plan 9 From Outer Space, more like Brain Damage or Bad Taste).
Touch of Evil received negative reviews in the rating guides, 1 to 2 stars (1-1/2 average). I gave it 4-stars (highest) and I wrote a scathing attack on the (lack of) review prowess of aforementioned Mr. Maltin. Of course I never sent it to him but within some years, Mr. Maltin had revisited and given this film 3-1/2 stars. Mind control. Touch of Evil may be the quintessential Film Noir and the opening scene is to die for :).
I didn't believe the hype before I'd seen Citizen Kane, then I saw the film and thought it underrated. Magnificent Ambersons has greatness in it too. Take that Ms. Kael!
Smoking the second best durn tobacco made, Esoterica Stonehaven in a Plateau top Ben Wade Freehand. @NeverBend My wife produced a straight to VHS movie for Maltin called Cartoons for Big Kids. Also produced his wrap arounds for Turner Classic Movies. Says he was great to work with.
St. Bruno Flake in a small 1982 three quarter bend meer with a smiling turbaned Turk's head.
I'm holding out hope that we'll get a definitive Magnificent Ambersons as long as someone, somewhere has copious notes from Mr. Welles and the footage still exists.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverBend
And, I agree about Touch of Evil!
It wasn't just on paper or behind the camera that he excelled, though. The triumvirate of awesomess that was Welles, Joseph Cotton, and Carol Reed combined to create one of my favorite films and, to me, the epitome of noir: The Third Man.
SPC Mississippi River of courseQuote:
Originally Posted by droy1958
and don't forget a tin of nightcap and early morning pipe
MacBaren Burley London Blend in a 2015 three quarter bend two tone Chacom UPO Rouge squashed tomato with a black acrylic stem and shank.
Ended up with:Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
Cornell & Diehl Billy Budd
Cornell & Diehl Haunted Bookshop
CB
Dunhill Nightcap
Dunhill Aperitif
Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture
Double post.
Have you had these before, or are you trying some new things?Quote:
Originally Posted by droy1958