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Wildwood Crest – 2009

As some of you may know, I mentioned in one of my Stogie Review Videos, that I was heading down to Wildwood Crest for the weekend. This morning while walking around, I pulled out the Flip camera and shot a little video. Below is about two minutes of the Atlantic ocean from a couple of [...]

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Shooting The Breeze: TV Shows

When Jerry and I used to get together for YQMA on Stogie Review, one of the most common off topic questions we used to get asked was “What do you guys watch on TV?”. That same question has carried over to this personal blog and comes up every now and again. Since I’ve been doing [...]

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Shooting The Breeze: Booze

Last week I did a Shooting the Breeze video to try and kill some time while Stogie Review was down. During that video I asked for some suggestions for discussion topics. One of the questions that came in was about what I stock in my liquor cabinet. I turned on the camera and just started [...]

First Impressions: Heeren van Ruysdael – Brazilie Editie
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First Impressions: Heeren van Ruysdael – Brazilie Editie

A couple weeks back, Jerry and I were fortunate enough to score a couple of press passes to Cigars International’s annual Cigarfest. While making the rounds, I was approached by a fan of Stogie Review. This person introduced themselves as Alex and began speaking to me about Dutch cigars. Alex went on to tell me [...]

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Shooting The Breeze: More Dog Talk

This week I had plans on either doing a review for Stogie Review or a First Impressions video for this site. Before firing up the camera I discovered that Stogie Review was having server issues. Getting frustrated with the situation, I figured that it wasn’t the best time to try and focus on a cigar [...]

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Shooting The Breeze: Reading Phillies Game

Last week my wife was at work and came to find a stack of free tickets to a Reading Phillies baseball game. Having gone to a game the week before, we had a good time and were looking forward to going again. My wife picked up two tickets and made plans to attend the game. [...]

Stone Temple Pilots – Thank You (Greatest Hits)
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Stone Temple Pilots – Thank You (Greatest Hits)

The other day I had plans to do some work in my basement. The job was going to take a fair amount of time so I grabbed an old pair of computer speakers and plugged them into my iTouch. From there I loaded up my Slacker Radio player and started listening to the Rock station. [...]

First Impressions: Mystery Cigar
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First Impressions: Mystery Cigar

After a little bit of a drought here content wise, I decided fire up the camcorder and record another First Impressions cigar review. This time I was craving something mild and creamy as a first cigar of the day. The first cigar that came to mind was one that Davidoff sent me a little while [...]

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Shooting The Breeze: Dog Training Progression

Over the past few weeks I have been trying to shoot a video to share a few words on how Syrus’ obedience training has been going. This week I was unable to attend the class and my wife filled in for me. Without any first hand information, I decided to skip the video this week. [...]

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Shooting The Breeze: City Centric Foods

Not long ago I put up an article on a local eatery called The Yellow Submarine. Included with that article was supposed to be a video of me discussing the restaurant, in my haste I forgot to encode it and it never made the final cut. I encoded the video a few nights ago and [...]

Watching ALF on Hulu
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Watching ALF on Hulu

Last week I was having trouble sleeping one night, so I jumped on the computer and tried to find something to do until I got tired. I headed over to Hulu and started browsing through some of their featured content. Not seeing anything I was interested in, I started browsing though their complete listing of [...]

Stuck in the 80′s Movie Realm
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Stuck in the 80′s Movie Realm

So the other day, my wife and I were hanging out in the living room watching television. I don’t think anything decent was on so I was randomly flipping through channels to see if I could find something interesting. Wouldn’t you know it, before long I found an older movie that I enjoy watching anytime [...]

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First Impressions: AVO LE 09 Compenero

This week I take a first time look at the new AVO Limited Edition 2009 (LE 09) Compenero. This cigar was a gift from my local tobacconist. Once day while hanging out in the shop, UPS dropped off a package that contained several boxes of cigars. As he unpacked those boxes we were talking about [...]

Frontier Horizon
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Frontier Horizon

After an evening of working with the dog on heel training and teaching him the off command (so that he stays off of my leather sofa), the night wound down and I felt myself getting bored. My wife was half asleep watching Property Virgins on TV, so I thought I would sneak off and have [...]

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Heading to Cigarfest

If you have been following either myself, @jcruz, @dcamacho, @mountchuck, @tightash, or several other cigar buffs on Twitter, you probably know that we are all headed to Cigarfest 2009. Because the event takes place on Saturday, many of us are making a weekend trip out of it and planning on arriving today. Having attended last [...]