Goodbye

Couldn't resist saying goodbye, but I thought they did that weeks ago. Another Pop King dead - he happens to share my first name-, some kind of anesthetic overdosing? Somebody reported him already being seen getting out of a van. Now they are burying him. I miss the innocent little guy who stole the show, but all of our innocence must fade as we hug Father Time. Sooner or later Elvis will age and die... even if he really did survive. Our dreams have been bleached, scarred, and surgically modified to meet our consumer expectations. Its good to say goodbye to the tabloid trash. The truth... only God knows that. Sometimes its good to finally put him in the ground.

All are like actors on a stage, some have one part and some another, death is still busy amongst us; here drops one of the players, we bury him with and to our scene again then falls another, yea all, one after another, till death be left upon the stage.Death is that damp which puts out all the dim lights of vanity.Yet man is easier to believe that all the world shall die, than to suspect himself.
Thomas Adams

Picking a cigar for the event seems to lead us to celebrate the innocent part of his life or the sadness of his death, or the loss of another man-demon. In it all we do not know, but suspect a grave problem affected him. We can all mourn for that. We mourn his depravity and deterioration. When considered all this brings us to our own mortality. That leads us to the "better to smoke now, than in the hereafter" statement that lines the blog.

Several years ago I purchased some Five Star Dominican cigars in boxes of 50 on clearance from JR cigars. Over the years they have aged, and have acquired some pleasant nuances. The specific one I dedicate for this event is the toro maduro. The wrapper is a dark black maduro, and was very well rolled, with the veins being small. It was a CBLM. As I smoked it, it started off well, and lit and burned well. But then, halfway through it started to tunnel. Needless-to-say it became unsmokable, and I had to discard it. The taste was good, with a medium finish. It had a slight woody and hay/barnyard taste. Too bad we couldn't enjoy the whole thing...