389. Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!—Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit! Happy St. Patrick’s Day to You! This morning I’ve invited Jason Canady, the blog’s resident St. Patrick’s Day commemorative expert, to step in and take a look back at what will go down in Kapp & Peterson’s history as the very finest SPD ever issued (and you ought to look
388. A Visual History of Peterson’s Bulldog Shape, Part 1: The Patent Era (1891-1919).
PSA: If you missed out on the mugs, flatcaps or tampers, see the end of this post. The quest for the perfect Peterson bulldog began for me with the first pipe I smoked, my Dad’s Kaywoodie White Briar shape 12B, one of his two Kaywoodies. I knew nothing about pipes except that I wanted to
387. Jacques Cousteau, Divulgationist Thinking Man (+Introducing the Collector’s Corner)
Pete Geek Hats Shipping Out! If you ordered, you should have received an invoice yesterday. See end of post for more information. Cousteau smoking a Peterson Mark Twain commemorative This morning I wanted to continue our survey of the great Thinking Men—and often men of action—who have taken up the Peterson System Pipe. This short
386. International Peterson Smoking Day 2024: The Beauty and the Beast Challenge
Before he could ask, she smiled and whispered, “Mackenzie, we all have things we value enough to collect, don’t we?” —Sarayu, in Wm. Paul Young’s The Shack (91) Here we are at the 17th annual International Pipe Smoking Day–or as we like to think of it, the International Peterson Smoking Day. Chuck Stanion has a
385. Robert Donat: Knight Without Armor & Peterson Pipeman (+ Last Call for IPSD Event!)
LAST CALL! If you want to participate in the Pete Geek 2024 IPSD Event and earn your CPG certificate or add the Merit Badge, I need your photos and text by Monday, no later that 2:30pm CST. PETE GEEK MUGS ARE SHIPPING NOW The Pete Geek mugs are being shipped! Gigi & I have worked
384b. Second Chance CPG Coffee Mugs
Hi, Everyone! While Mark is off drinking coffee and smoking his pipe with his friend Mr. Stubz (that’s right, the monkey), I’ve been running through the orders. There are some extra mugs that are unclaimed, and as we’ve already received a few requests for mugs or for additional mugs, I’ve opened up the Google Form: