What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

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.

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Originally Posted by c.ortiz108

Yeah... It's apparently a recreation of Bing Crosby's custom blend. His voice was a lot smoother than his tobacco.

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Do you think the displeasure is the Deer Tongue, or a bad blend?

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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Originally Posted by GWBowman

Do you think the displeasure is the Deer Tongue, or a bad blend?

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.

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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.