See Also: My Blog Archives: June 2007Posted: 10:48 AM ET, June 03, 2008My right knee is throbbing, my shins are swollen and both feet are sore. Why? I joined a few friends on Sunday and played soccer for a couple of hours. It’s been about a year since I’d played, and much, much longer since I played regularly. Read more
Posted: 10:20 AM ET, June 27, 2007Most workday mornings I walk from the train station to the office. Usually my goal is to time my stride so I make the lights, but today I felt like a cigar.
I stopped for a moment, took out my cigar case and removed a corona-sized Dominican cigar given to me by a friend. Read more
Posted: 12:12 AM ET, June 22, 2007I feel a little like vice president Cheney: The other night I sat in an undisclosed location in New York City. But I wasn’t there hiding from terrorists, I was ducking the smoke police.
At this undisclosed location, I fired up two great cigars. Read more
Posted: 12:17 PM ET, June 15, 2007Yesterday afternoon I drove to Garden City, Long Island, to catch up with an old friend of mine, George Brightman. George worked at Cigar Aficionado for 10 years, right from the very beginning of the magazine. His official title was director of business development, but his unofficial moniker was cigar guru. Read more
Posted: 10:59 AM ET, June 11, 2007Alas, poor Frank, I knew him.
As I write this, about 12 hours have passed since the last episode of “The Sopranos.” At the heart of the show was a mob hit, the final hit in a long stream of gangland executions that defined the series since its inception. Read more
Posted: 02:55 PM ET, June 01, 2007I recently found one of the finest places on earth to smoke a cigar. The only problem? It’s not always in the same place.
The place is the Queen Mary 2, the stately ocean liner owned by Cunard. I was on the ship last week for the Britannia Ball, a fundraiser sponsored by CIT Group Inc. Read more
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