American Giant and the world’s greatest un-hoodie?
I spend too much time on Facebook, that’s obvious even to me. One day, mixed in with all of the cat videos, was a link to a Slate advertorial article, “This Is [...]
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The Smoking Jacket: Skinny and Loving It
By Marc Phillips I’ve been reading a few articles on the cigar websites about lanceros, panatelas and other “skinny” cigars, and how they’re suddenly becoming more [...]
The Smoking Jacket: The Down Under Smoker
by Marc Phillips Have I told you about my trip to Australia this summer? That’s kind of an in-joke around here, since I can’t seem to shut up about it and I’m really [...]
The Smoking Jacket: Born to be Mild
By Marc Phillips When I opened a cigar lounge in Kyle, Texas back in 2011, I took a rather didactic approach to my marketing efforts. At the outset of this venture, one of my [...]
The Smoking Jacket: Tiny and Bold
By Marc Phillips “Way out west, a story is told About a bunch of cowboys, tiny and bold Riding tall, tall in the saddle Herding cows the size of schnauzers but they’re [...]
The Smoking Jacket: The Online Smoker
By Marc Phillips Have I told you about my constant struggles with smoking premium cigars in my isolated town on Colorado’s Western Slope? I’m sure that I have. In fact, I [...]
The Smoking Jacket: Go Figurado!
By Marc Phillips A few years ago, but more recently than I’m willing to admit, I visited my favorite cigar store in Austin and stocked up on a few Don Pepin Garcia Cuban [...]
The Smoking Jacket: The Courteous Cigar Smoker
By Marc Phillips “How much longer are you going to be smoking that cigar?” I’ve been smoking high-quality premium cigars for about 17 years now, and not once has anyone [...]
The Smoking Jacket: Do You Really Need Cuban Cigars?
By Marc Phillips Colleen and I just returned from a dealer event in Phoenix a few days ago where we introduced our new Axis VoiceBox S monitors to the Arizona Audio Video [...]
Passages: A Watch by William Shatner and Egard
Filed under: Looks Nifty Indiegogo is stuffed to the gills with nifty little projects. I’ve been tracking the LH Labs adventures with their Desktop Headphone [...]
