Summer 2019 Now Available | The Occasional Magazine
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The Smoking Jacket: The Ballad of El Gordo
By Marc Phillips “It looks like you’re smoking a big sausage!” For years I’ve been fond of the 6 x 60 cigar size, long before the nickname gordo became the [...]
The Smoking Jacket: The Flavored Smoker
By Marc Phillips “Why, them cigars are fer Girl Scouts and Methodists!” In the world of serious cigar smokers, flavored and infused cigars don’t get a lot of respect. [...]
The Smoking Jacket: The New York Smoker
By Marc Phillips Since I started smoking premium cigars back in 1998, I’ve lived in several states: California, Washington, Texas, Colorado and now New York. [...]
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 [...]
