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• Notes on the Número 4 by Martinez Cigars

  

  Ring Detail – Portrait of Antonio Genaro Martinez on a New York City Blend – Número 4 Cigar / Martinez Hand Rolled Cigars, New York, NY / Leica D-Lux 4... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• To Re-live the Gilded Age a Century Later / Notes on a Cigar from La Gloria...

  

  Ring for a La Gloria Cubana – Gilded Age – Toro / Leica D-Lux 4 In our modern world we tend to focus on the future. Feeling we have arrived today’s moment, whic... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Into the Cigar World and Its Selection of Men

  

  There might be some truth to the quality of company we are as a bunch in smoke lounges. It might be accurate to describe ourselves as a league consisting in par... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Possibly a Reason Why We Mind the Leaf, the Smoke and the Ashes – The Buccal...

  

  To Believe and the Truth – A mouth has two roles – to take in and to give out. It is the main form of supplying the organism with the necessary nutrients, as... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Barista-Bartender-Tobacconist Brewing a Siphon Coffee

  One of the most wonderful, advanced, primitive and scientific things we have achieved as humans is fire placement and control. Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Coffeehouses and the Banning of Smoke and House

  NYC Fine Cigars, New York, NY / Leica D-Lux 4 On an intercontinental level, for the past five-hundred years, the cultural centre of humankind has been the... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Gurkha, Epoca, Fuente, Caldwell and Nat Sherman

  

  Clockwise from the top (midday). Some of the ones I shall be burning and tasting over the next few days – courtesy of Eddy. Thank you! Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Schadenfreude: a Sort of German Lesson

  I do not know his mind, for I do not know him. Thus I cannot know if his is a caprice based on historical reference, or merely a jovial twisted mind. I do... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Pipe Tobacco, Dark Chocolate, Espresso and the ‘Lyric Pieces’ from Edvard Grieg

  Just as I had been taking notes; searching in my memory for possible conceptual connections; considering all the things we might understand under the term... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• With / Within

  

  On the emergence of an odd conflict in the wonder world of the smoke lounge With the regularity of a weekly rhythm I am reminded and reaffirmed in my decision o... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Leaves

  

  waiting to be rolled into Camacho Corojo Cigars / Davidoff of Geneva, New York, NY / Leica D-Lux 4 I eat (by increasing order of taste strength and intensity)... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Myth and Reality to a Smoke Lounge

  Believing seems to be a human necessity used in supporting our dealings with things we do not understand, as we yearn for security and completeness. Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Aesthetic Line Compositions and Beauty – On Contemplating Femininity

  Contemplating a feminine female being moves special forces in a man’s will. This flow of energy will move him on grounds of carnal desires, as well as through a... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Arturo Fuente – Chateau Fuente, Rothschild Natural / A Review

  

  A strong taste was always my taste. My coffee I like intense. The usual seven grams that compose a classic Italian espresso was seldom enough for me, just like... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Yakov

  

  One more supporting experience for the importance of the Smoke Lounge in our society. Yakov sat next to me. With some shyness, we both looked for eye contact,... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Smoke from a Small Cigar

  

  Sales Associate/Tobacconist / Nat Sherman, New York, NY / Leica D-Lux 4 Sales Associate/Tobacconist / Nat Sherman, New York, NY / Leica D-Lux 4 Sales... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Happy Birthday, Marjorie!

  

  Marjorie (pre-celebrating her Birthday on 3/25/2015) with a Cigar, after seeing ‘The Lion King’ on Broadway / NYC Fine Cigars, New York, NY / Leica D-Lux 4 Whil... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Note from a Friend

  Much of my life has been set and guided by taste. Taste for melodies and rhythm, taste for colours and shapes, and certainly through the taste my palate has... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• To Nose

  The enjoyment of Whiskey and Pipe-Smoking might occupy the very top spots on the list of things we humans succumb to with fine attention to the palate, as well... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Non-Fine-Smoking Starts in the Mind

  I believe that everything we do is a crucial part of our existence. Every single thing! Every single breath we take instigates the next and every breath is... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2015 SELF EXPRESSION