Blogging With Bloggers

An unusual follow up to a post only a day later. With the kids gone and three weeks of rest under my belt I'm game for a bit of loquaciousness. I've had a bit of time to catch up on other pipe/tobacco blogs and web pages, which has been fun, too.

In that regard you may have noticed the tobacco tin-like button on the top left of the side bar. I've joined what I take to be a nascent attempt to unify pipe/tobacco bloggers into one community. If you click on the tin you will be taken to a site featuring a variety of bloggers that you may not have come across before. I certainly hadn't. As one of the first projects of this community we've been asked to click on the tin ourselves and find our listing among the blogs listed and then scroll to the blog listed below our own and introduce it on our own blog. Got that?

Well, always willing to help out, I discovered in this manner Pipe Reflections whose post on Frog Morton tobacco was a lovely reminder of what has now become a classic blend. In addition to describing some of the virtues of the tobacco, the blogger takes us on a bit of a journey through the iconography of pipe smoking frogs. Now, I had never thought about this phenomenon! The truth is that the frog often appears in literature and its accompanying pictures as a pipe smoker. Is this good or bad? Interesting question. I suppose it depends on your view of frogs (and hopefully has nothing to do with their increasing rate of disappearance!) The point is, the blogger does what a good blogger does best: start with the subject that we are all somehow connected by and then takes us to some place we didn't expect. Great blog! I recommend it and will add it to my link list, though now that you can click the Pipe Blogger button that is probably not as necessary anymore.

One word of critique: As I've discovered lately on a number of other blogs there didn't seem to be any "about me" section or if there was I didn't find it. I like knowing something about who is writing; where they live, what they do, how old they are, etc. Are pipe bloggers hiding from something? Let's share real identities, not just virtual ones.