What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[Horsefeathers]

Was last night, but a bowl of Dunhill Nightcap in a Stanwell Specialty 172. Overall it was a nice smoke, and I can see my self keeping it in rotation, but was a bit let down given the amount of praise I read online.

[Lostmason]

Just started a bowl of P&C Southern Comfort (Sutliff Kentucky Blend).Thx @BryGuySC ! This is turning into a really Great weekend !

[Alligator Gar]

Last of Christmas Cheer and Sixpence mixed together in a MM Great Dane. I call it Six Cheerleaders for Christmas.

[Alligator Gar]

Nicely bundled on the front porch starting the last bowl of the night.

2015 Dunhill Nightcap (appropriate) in an early 1970s Caminetto Business #104 saddle billiard.

Pictures or it didn't happen.

[freestoke]

Still banging the drum...
2015 Gawith Hoggarth Louisiana Flake in a late 1930s Barling's Make Ye Olde Wood EL, smooth saddle billiard (gr. 4 size).

@freestoke, you're a bad influence on me, hot chicks playing sizzling guitar and smaller bowl pipes (smoked another early this AM), what's next, vegetarianism?

"'Vegetarian' is an old Indian word for "bad hunter". Andy Rooney.

Just another couple of bowls of BBF and another container gone. My program of clearing out the chaff goes on apace.

There is a new plague in TV commercials, probably the product of music education being virtually eliminated in high schools nationwide. (Who needs music when you have ridiculously expensive sports programs to entertain the parents, eh?) Few people now know anything about playing a musical instrument, a situation that extends into popular music, and it is reflected in TV commercials I think. Ad after ad has these plinky little repeated phrases as background to the 5 minutes of warning about a drug guaranteed to smooth your skin while it eats out your liver, or some mindless computer generated rhythm section, available on that Sony electric keyboard at your local online dealer for $79.50, free shipping. What I find revealing about these "musical" fillers is that they are precisely the same sorts of noise generated by beginners as they practice their exercises, or the sort of cacophony emanating from the basement when your teenage son invites his friends over to jam. It is the sound that George Bernard Shaw was thinking of when he said, "Hell is full of amateur musicians." Few have experience with the boredom of such exercises, so that listening to beginner noises as music doesn't trigger suicidal urges as it does with me. The biggest danger of many drugs, even in light of the extensive list of terrifying side effects, is mass psychological trauma of musicians exposed to their commercials.

Nothing but a walk today, despite the sun. Cold.

[NeverBend]

Pictures or it didn't happen.

Jim,

Lol!

If you're relying on me for pictures or it didn't happen then I'm about as real as a unicorn!

I take them but it's impossible to get them posted without building a space shuttle.

[Pugsley]

Popped open a tin of Peterson's Perfect Plug, took a long look at that solid brick of tobacco and decided I wasn't feeling that ambitious. Closed the tin and took the lazy way. Loaded a 20th anniversary, deeply rusticated, straight stem Ascorti Business tomato that I haven't smoked in several years with HOTW. The plug will wait for another day.

[NeverBend]

Popped open a tin of Peterson's Perfect Plug, took a long look at that solid brick of tobacco and decided I wasn't feeling that ambitious. Closed the tin and took the lazy way. Loaded a 20th anniversary, deeply rusticated, straight stem Ascorti Business tomato that I haven't smoked in several years with HOTW. The plug will wait for another day.

Nice to get those boys back in the rotation. I've been doing this and I need to because I'm shipping off 13 pipes to Rich Lewis for treatment and feel inadequately staffed. Maybe I should buy another Barling? Nah, I'd better get two.

just finishing
2015 Gawith Hoggarth Scotch flake Aromatic in a 1961 Barling's Make #5179 smooth saddle billiard.
@freestoke , did you give Maurice Andre a listen and if so your thoughts? I think I'll dial up some Hayden as interpreted by the Frenchman.

[JimInks]

Almost finished smoking Flying Dutchman Match in a slight bend black sandblasted Lorenzo Elba Imperia 8636 with an amber colored acrylic stem.

[NeverBend]

2015 Peter Stokkebye Luxury Twist Flake in a 1982 Ser Jacopo Gemma Rubino canadian.