What Are You Smoking? - September 2019.

Good evening, gents. Smoking Orlik Dark Strong Kentucky in a Savinelli Alligator 320 KS with water on the side. Watching Sherlock Holmes (1988) starring Jeremy Brett, the best Holmes since Basil Rathbone.

Finally sitting down and putting a match to Louisiana Red in my Stanwell Black Diamond 404

Now smoking FVF in a 2014 Savinelli Gaius smooth brown slight bend 320KS author with a tapered black acrylic military mount stem and ferrule. Going to work now.

Smoking D&R Three Sails in a Kaywoodie Prince with water on the side.

Hello from Greece, yesterday we had the first rain of Autumn here in Athens.



Wessex Balkan Supreme.

Watch City 558 in a Legend

Good morning ‘ leaguers. My first pipe of the day is WCC Deluxe Crumble Cut in a sandblasted Urbino bent apple with an acrylic stem.

Dunhill Flake (‘11) in a no name bent Dublin with a plateau rim and vulcanite stem.

Good Morning, peoples and persons. SWRA in the JB Devil Anse stack. Peet's espresso. Low sodium V8. Cool water. Local news on the tube.

I just finished a bowl of RD Mix/Off The Rails in a Stanwell Selected Briar bent acorn with a vulcanite stem.

A quarter of the way through this bowl of 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. Watching Mad Dog Russo.

ODF in a MM Legend cob with a black Forever Stem, military style, finishing up the Ken Burns Country Music series.

Enjoyed a light lunch, and am now smoking Sutliff Eastfarthing in a 1990s smooth Peterson Captain Pete XL80 bulldog with a black vulcanite stem and p-lip.

Solani Aged Burley Flake in a Savinelli Chiara prince.

Sutliff Vanilla Custard in a MM Washington with a Diplomat stem. Iced tea on the side.

Half way through this bowl of Sutliff Eastfarthing in a 2002 Ser Jacopo Delecta Fatta A Mano R1 sandblast Rhodesian with a smooth extension at the shank with a military mount and a black acrylic tapered stem.

Esoterica Dunbar Charatan's Make Free Hand. This 8 oz. bag was gifted to me by Mark. Hope he's OK. I think of him every smoke.

Now smoking Esoterica Dunbar in a smooth straight late ‘50s, early 1960s Lane era Charatan Selected 43 Dublin with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

JimInks wrote:Now smoking Esoterica Dunbar in a smooth straight late ‘50s, early 1960s Lane era Charatan Selected 43 Dublin with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

Copy cat.

A successful batch....


I’m smoking my first bowl of my own 36-D in a sandblasted Peterson donegal rocky bent rhodesian with a vulcanite p-lip stem.

Arango Balkan Supreme in a London Castle (Huybrecht.) Yeah. Cool water to sip.

Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture in a baby cob, chilled whiskey, mind-numbing news radio, workday behind me, hard at work doing nothing for the remainder...

Just finished smoking G&H No.7 Broken Flake in a 2014 straight MM Missouri Pride Legend with a black stem. Editing an article I wrote for a magazine.

Now smoking Watch City Off the Rails in a medium bend raw sienna toned early Radice sandblast egg with bamboo carving on the shank and a black acrylic saddle stem.

Vintage Capstan Blue cob-driven, hot Sake w/honey, inexpert talk radio, window view to the backyard expanse...