Oniomania me gotta go, me oh my oh

This year instead of running around at the last minute trying to get all my xmas shopping done I started way back in August, with every paycheck I ran to the stores (but) spent only a few bucks, got some stuff on layaway and looked for specials and discounts, I had way more time than previous years and i was able to get more stuff for my girls and it was all paid in cash but being a child of commerce, a hunter of shiny , an avid scattergood , I feel left out of this mad dash everyone is doing , I think is time to dust off them cards and go fight the crowds for that perfect parking spot at the mall

Martini ? I barely Know Her

Twas the hour before cocktails and all through the house not a creature was stirring... or shaking ... or pouring...

Bakon™ Vodka and Chocolate liqueur

LA AutoShow 2010

The LA AutoShow going on right now and all the way thru this weekend

LA AutoShow 2010

Fall-ing in love

Summer bailed in the middle of the night and left me sleeping on the floor next to a heap of empty bottles and cigar butts, but the very next day I met Autumn and so far so good

Fall

We are getting ready for the Holidays by making some candy and
looking at a few books on thanksgiving feast makin' wooo hooo we gonna be cookin with lard soon !
I wanna make some pies for thanksgivin , maybe even a cake

My Daughter kicks Ass!

She picked her own costume, and laughed maniacally when the chainsaw came on, I knew she was going to be my lil' Princess from the moment i first held her in my arms
but i was thinking Disney would go on and ruin another girl's self image and she would grow up thinking long, perfectly brushed hair and flowing dresses with tight waist ribbons is the only way to go thru life, after all there is all that cleaning and all that waiting for the Prince to come a rescuing.

But

My Kid is ... "interesting". She watches the original Astroboy cartoons and loves Coraline, she hated Princess and the frog and thinks dresses are costumes to play tea party.
So it was no surprise when instead of going with the girly Princess She chose to be A half cat, half angel, power- saw wielding, comfortable shoes , jean clad , ass kicking, Princess!!!

When Life Gives you lemons (or limes)

Number NIne

I thought this place was called Noodles and Beer (cuz of the sign on the window ) but i guess is called Number Nine, either way it is great nom noms .
If you are ever in Long Beach this is a must go restaurant

Number Nine
2118 N. 4TH ST.
Long Beach CA. 90814

562-434-2009

Cohiba

Nuff' said

yumms foodies

Drove down to Orange county to Cafe Hiro for dinner the other night.
AWESOME FOOD!!!! japanese/french/italian mix of yummness!!!!

Chillin'

flugtag

War Of the Worlds set

The Lines are crazy!!! 2hours long but this is where the magic happens

La Gloria Cubana

La Gloria Cubana , cask aged, maduro.
I made the mistake of not looking at the shipping until I got the email with the tracking info and thats when I saw I had only paid for parcel post !!!!bummer!!!!! parcel post is only $2.50 but it could take up to 14 business day on transit , more than 2 weeks!! I was thinking they were going to be sitting in a warm dry postal truck for days on end until they would arrive at my house and I checked for the first 3 days and there was no update only that they had received the shipment info and then on the 3rd day late at night i got an email with the words -processed at our location- but it was still somewhere in philly. I then resigned my self to call this a loss they had been out of perfect conditions for 3 days and they had not even left the county, they were still a couple of thousand miles away, I was ready to order another barrel the next day but just before I placed the order I went to the tracking site and found out that they were in my P.O box already!! somehow USPS didnt update their tracking site on time and it was behind a few days , I ran to the post office got my puros and went home and smoked one , I dont know if it was because i was kinda stocked or because i never really run anywhere and was a little out of breath but either way that smoke was fucking great! I then waited a couple of weeks to have another and of course it was even better, spicy, nice thick smoke, good aroma, excellent draw all around a good fucking stick , i am putting some away for a few months but the rest is going to be gone very quickly

5 Vegas AAA

I forgot to do my cigar review last week and i had some notes saved on this 5 Vegas AAA but now i cant find anything ,, I remember liking it specially the Maduro one , I still have a couple left on my humi so I'll give it another try maybe this weekend,but do I have some La Gloria Cubana waiting for me so i don't know if i can wait on those to smoke this one again, maybe ill just wing it ;)

Food porn in Laguna Beach

There is a bakery in Laguna that has some of the best deserts in the entire OC! I am talking about cakes worth the drive and 10 dollar parking fees, they also have salads and sandwiches in there , so people won't feel so guilty about breaking their diets , very good stuff there, maybe next time I'll remember to get a business card since i cant ever remember their name, is on Ocean ave. or on the next street, is by the whole foods, or is it a trader joes? meh! look it up, walk around before and after eating ;) , there is always cool stuff in the little shops nearby and the beach is only a block away

Unable to read memory card

A few years ago i went to this place here.
I think it was an old Fort somewhere north of L.A. but i can't remember the name of it nor do i remember which freeway i took to get there, sleeping less than 4 hours a day has taken a toll

San Francisco is calling my name , I want to go back this summer maybe this time meet an old friend for coffee ...

No Guilt

You have a sweet-tooth craving ? smoke one of these and be guilt free!!!
delish!!!!

Hoyo de Monterrey

Excalibur 1060 vitola (size) Galahad
Cameroon wrapper
Connecticut binder
Dominican Republic, Honduras and NIcaragua filler
Hand made in Honduras

A very moderately priced cigar anywhere from 4 to 6 bucks, 9 if you don't know anything and they see you coming from a mile away wearing your ascot and your fake Rolex. meh! Alright flavor almost uneventful , reminds me of the Gurkha micro batch , you kinda expect more out of the stick but at the same time you are not really disappointed I was going to give a real review a try but i don't think this is a proper cigar to do it , I do have a Cohiba and a Diesel waiting for me next week so maybe i will do those right and do a review like those wankers , you know the 2 dorks " hey there walt how is your cigar over there?" - "well, mike mine is doing alright and yours?"--"walt i don't know what to say.. hold on i got to go feed my cat" hahahhaa if you know who i am talking about then you spend too much time online. hi nice to meet you, havent i seen you before ? your avatar looks familiar...

Lucius Domitius

Fear I may suffer Nero's fate and be remembered only by the fire , fuck it i say!!! the xris! the xris! the xris is on fire!!! let the motherfucker burn

Happy NoPants Day!

Just to break it up a little and in celebration of National No Pants day.
I was looking for a pantless picture to post and i went back into my archives but I get a little confused as to who this girl is, there was several girls I photographed that day and out of those only 2 do not show a name on my records. however I know one went on to a profitable career in the porn industry whilst the other finished school and is now a Veterinarian back home in Tupelo Mississippi, I can't tell by the pose here if this is the vet or the porn star, i know!! right? but you should see the other girl her pose is more porny than this one

Tabacalera Perdomo does it again!

There was a special on a Perdomo sampler box last month and i thought that for the price it would make for a nice walking about stick, I bought a box and took a Lot 23 around my block for a walk and was immediately impressed, maybe this brand was more than a good bargain maybe this was the elusive "5cent" cigar, well, with inflation it is now the five bucks cigar but a nickle is a nickle and as i smoked more of the sampler i started to like them even more. The Lot 23 was smooth and it never got harsh it had a nice finish gooood! , The Habano was what a Cuban should taste like if they had better quality control in Cuba , you know when you smuggle a box of cubans across the border inside your anus you get home and only one or two taste decent the rest are shit.. has that ever happened to you? it happened to me more than once with freaking overpriced cuban cigars and try to get your money back or at least store credit for the rest of the box sheeshz right away with the yelling and pointing of the cuernos de chivo and fuscas and 9mm and oh shit that guy has a sawed-off shut gun.. but i digress that happens a lot too , fuck shit i forgot where i was oh yes, then i tried this one here The Perdomo2 (Perdomo squared) first of all, a nicely executed box press on this stick , you can plumb walls with these corners and the draw was pure fucking bliss, I heard someone call this a medium to semi full bodied cigar well shit! i dont know where the line ends for either one but it got stronger towards the finish and it had all kinds of different hints of flavors oh it was good so good in fact that now instead of wasting this box without paying attention to all the awesomeness I am going to save it for when i get some time for myself, I got another Habano (the corojo) on deck right now and I finished all the laundry, made lunch already, if i can get Pot to take a nap after she finishes her lunch I am going to sneak out to the patio and sit there on the sunny spot maybe do some reading maybe just do nothing but i will be smoking another Perdomo , crap i still got dishes to do! ok maybe after i do dishes or maybe after the wife comes home ill skip my nap and go to work early, sit outside on the bench and smoke me another great Perdomo cigar

Man O' War and the Ashtray mission

What can i say about Man o' war that hasn't been said before ?(easiest way to weasel out of an actual review, take notes please) just kidding but not really, I checked some other blogs for reviews on this A.J Fernandez puro,I lit my cigar and started reading. "oily wrapper" yes, "nice draw", so far so good, "citrus" i was wondering if that was from the cigar or the fish tacos con limon i had earlier , then i got bored reading the same thing over and over finished my cigar and went for a walk , figured i would hit antique row down the street and see if i could find a nice ashtray for cheap and found one in the first store i walked in but it was 25 bucks i only had 10 bucks cash. A few stores later i found a smaller ashtray for only $3.00 and bought it, the guy didn't have a plastic bag and i told him i would just take it like that, then walked down the street to a consignment store , was going to ask the lady at the counter for some old tin posters i saw there a week ago but before i could say anything she saw the ashtray in my hand and asked if i was there to sell it.. I paused for a second and asked how much, she took it and went to the back, when she returned she had 15 bucks with her .I told her i wanted at least 25 since it had been my grandads and she said Russ in the back room collected fish stuff (was a fishhead shaped ashtray) and wanted to buy it for himself, I took the money and went back to the first store and offered 20 since by then I had 22bucks and they took it, no tax! flat 20 !!! I bought a soda on the way home and as soon as i got here i lit up another Man O' War to break in my new old ashtray, took this picture and figured this would make a great story to tell you

Happy Anniversary Babe, contigo pan y cebolla!

Padilla 1932

A strong cigar deserves a strong cup of coffee and some days need a bigger dose of both, there was a wicked crazy series of events yesterday that almost made me forget about taking my picture for cigar wednesday , that is until I finally had a moment to relax , so my new idea is to relax at the start of my day instead of at the end so bring out the big pot of joe and a 32 Padilla , lets get this show on the road!

Perdomo lot 23 at 135mph

Perdomo lot 23 at 135mph
Originally uploaded by nopantsboy

After reading their press release i went and got me one and Once i bought it , I drove home as quickly as possible. I couldn't wait to try it ;)

It had a nice steady draw all the way thru which i liked a lot and the flavor was mellow and stayed nice , good cigar , great price and knowing even just a little bit about their back story makes for a great conversation starter

CAO Gold

CAO Gold
Originally uploaded by nopantsboy

smoked a CAO gold while waiting to get dark enough to watch a movie at the drive-in (one of only 2 left here) if you were to ask me how the movie was i couldn't tell you but this cigar left a very good impression on me, I will keep them on stock from now on , hey even after driving with it all day and leaving it inside a very hot car for a few hours i was able to enjoy it with very minimal unraveling and only a tiny crack on the wrapper , by now you have probably guessed this is not a review on the taste of the cigars , i could tell you about the "earthiness" and "ooh there was a chocolaty lingering essence " bullshit type of reviews you'll get everywhere else , but taste is subjective and we all have opinions so instead i give you a recommendation on the ones i like and basically if i have taken the time to take the picture then it means i like it enough to try to remember it , I have poor memory some say I have no memory, the wife says i only remember our anniversary because there is a picture with a date stamp on it , everyone who knows me will agree that i am going to make a very interesting old man talking to myself in the nursing home , i will probably have a cigar in my wrinkly old hands and it will probably be one of the ones on this blog, unless i forget i wrote this .

GURKHA

GURKHA
Originally uploaded by nopantsboy

Hell of a way to enjoy hump day!!
Gurkha cigars is one of my favorite puros, there really is no bad Gurkha and now with their new more affordable lines like Park avenue there really is a Gurkha for us all

Portofino

Portofino
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Macanudo by Montego y Compañia. There is a lot credit to give to a company that offers consistent quality and Macanudo is one of those few that deserve it , well that was going to be part of my review for this brand , given the fact that i've been a long time Macanudo smoker i was expecting the usual solid cigar and i had this one and it was ok , I had trouble keeping it lit and there was a huge stem smack down on the middle , that being said, one in a few dozen i've smoked is still a fucking 99% goodness!!!

Mass marketing

mass marketing
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