Kyle Weiss
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Usually I'm on top of a new piece of writ by Greg Pease, but recent events have made my normal searching doldrums of Internet gems take longer than usual.
I love GLP's writing--it's balanced and gilded the right way, with the right information (if you ask me...). It's the kind of thoughtful writing that stands out amongst those who would rather prattle on about nothing (*cough* ...me...), and in a world where everyone has an opinion (as entitled), there's novices and masters. Take Pease's flu-riddled words, acerbic stance and wisdom here. For me, anyway, his writing gives me something to aspire to, and his thoughts something to consider while I'm in the mere beginnings of my adventure with these whimsical little wooden smoking devices:
http://pipesmagazine.com/blog/out-of-the-ashes/mind-the-credibility-gap/
I only reference this for newer pipesters like myself, who awash in 1,000 different mentioned ways of saying the 1,001st way Greg says it best right there. We're drowning in advice, which in some aspects is a good thing, but like the rest of our information-fueled world, we gotta sort through the ore to get to the gold. Even if that means making a few mistakes along the way, which in all good intentions of any opinionated advice-giver, somehow retards on a large scale. We might as well just pick up a pipe and decide for ourselves--more unsolicited Internet advice. Par for the course.
I apologize if I'm just parroting already-been-said stuff, but even we here are guilty. :lol: It's just me, sitting here being humbled by concise thought in the face of all that there is at my lazy little fingertips.
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I love GLP's writing--it's balanced and gilded the right way, with the right information (if you ask me...). It's the kind of thoughtful writing that stands out amongst those who would rather prattle on about nothing (*cough* ...me...), and in a world where everyone has an opinion (as entitled), there's novices and masters. Take Pease's flu-riddled words, acerbic stance and wisdom here. For me, anyway, his writing gives me something to aspire to, and his thoughts something to consider while I'm in the mere beginnings of my adventure with these whimsical little wooden smoking devices:
http://pipesmagazine.com/blog/out-of-the-ashes/mind-the-credibility-gap/
I only reference this for newer pipesters like myself, who awash in 1,000 different mentioned ways of saying the 1,001st way Greg says it best right there. We're drowning in advice, which in some aspects is a good thing, but like the rest of our information-fueled world, we gotta sort through the ore to get to the gold. Even if that means making a few mistakes along the way, which in all good intentions of any opinionated advice-giver, somehow retards on a large scale. We might as well just pick up a pipe and decide for ourselves--more unsolicited Internet advice. Par for the course.
I apologize if I'm just parroting already-been-said stuff, but even we here are guilty. :lol: It's just me, sitting here being humbled by concise thought in the face of all that there is at my lazy little fingertips.
8)