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  Quality cigar at a very quality price Wrapper: Ecuadorian Des Florada, Aged Nicaraguan Habano (Double aged Nicaraguan Habano picked

Going down the road feeling bad

Commentary, Life Style and Common Sense   I live in a canyon with a 5 mile road that dead ends

Tonight’s Cigar delight

Relaxing with La Palina Nicaragua 

How much is enough?

Cigar Talk, Cigar Commentary, I have 3 humidors of cigars with a pretty full stash. Each holds about 50 smokes

Loser, Dead and Company, 5/27/16

            Keep smoking

Fire on the Mountain

Life Style , Commentary  Be Prepared is the Boy Scouts motto.  I was an Eagle Scout so I have no

Dead and Company, for true believers

 Report from the Vegas show will be forthcoming from one of my Dead head buddies. Keep smoking ARTICLE Dead &

It could be worse

Memorial weekend at the Lone Wolf Cigar  Lounge, no traffic on the LA streets and smoking a very good Cuban

It’s N.R.B.Q. Baby

Here is a tale of musical connections. The string starts in 1972 when I was an Assistant Scoutmaster for Troop

Follow up photos on new Xikar lighter

Cigar Talk , Cigar products, Cigar commentary Here are two photos of the retooled Xikar Stratosphere 2 Lighter. It’s clearly

True to their word, Xikar products

Cigar talk, cigar commentary , product review I previously commented on the design flaw concerning Xikar’s Stratosphere 1 lighter. I enjoyed the

It’s a good day to smoke in Los Angeles

Cigar review, cigar talk A great way to spend my Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles. The weather was in the

A Tale of two cigar events

Cigar Talk , Cigar News, Cigar Events Cigar events are always a big kick to me.  You meet a wide

Cigar bundles, love them or ?

Cigar Talk, Cigar Commentary  While many a cigar “expert” disdains bundled cigars for their inferior quality and look, you cannot

Todd Rundgren I saw the light , 1973

                          The immortal Todd performing one of his

Todd Rundgren , A rock wizard

                    A Rock Music Story I was a true Todd Rundgren

New Riders of the Purple Sage

One of the many subsets of the Grateful Dead, NRPS were a great compliment to the Dead Family. They could

The Grateful Dead and Cigars

For those who know my history , I am a Dead Head. Not the extreme Dead Head who travels all

New La Palina Cigar Release and Event

LA Palina is now producing  dynamic new blends with a moderate price point. I reviewed two and have had good

New Cigar Stash

                           Cigar Talk, Cigar Discovery Just received this great

Cigar Event at Lone Wolf Cigar Lounge, 5/18/17,

  You are cordially invited to The Lone Wolf Cigar Lounge For an evening of good times and for a special cigar

He would be banned by the FDA

         Wonder what he would have thought in today’s  anti cigar mind set?        

My dad’s favorite cigar

  White Owls were  considered a step up from the usual machine made smoke. “First produced in 1887, are manufactured

Design flaw?

 Cigar Talk, Cigar Commentary I own 4 Xikar lighters which have provided mostly reliable service. I also possess two cutters

You bet your life, real world

Cigar humor and history Groucho Marx’s son Arthur remembers, fondly, that he was the recipient of his famous father’s second