zeemanb
Well-Known Member
BUT this is pretty cool...
Last year I started doing reviews for the website Cigar Jedi. All reviews are blind, which is pretty humbling, but that's a whole different story. The webmaster is a really nice guy to work with, and at the beginning of the year he got the editor in chief position for Cigar & Spirits Magazine.
A few weeks ago he asked if I wanted to up my writing game and submit stuff for the magazine, assuming that since I'd usually add an alcoholic and non-alcoholic pairing suggestion to my reviews I'd like to do some booze/smoke writeups. I haven't had a drink in 7 years this July, but I was very very good at it, so I let him know I'd help however I could...I'm still a handy guy to have along for dinner when it comes to picking a wine and all that, I just don't drink.
Didn't think too much of it, but a couple of weeks ago he asked if we had a cigar lounge here in Kansas City that he could include in the upcoming issue. Just so happens we have a great, private club with a long history going back to before prohibition and includes ties to the old Pendergast political machine. Long story short, I ended up submitting what will be a featured lounge writeup in the Bourbon issue (fitting for me....that was my #1 poison) about KC's Pendergast Club.
Anyway, the money going forward won't be enough to retire on, but I'll be able to score the occasional five pack of cigars. I promise to refrain from shilling the mag on here, feel free to call me out if my daily smoke posts start sounding like "and just so happened to be reading CIGAR AND SPIRITS MAGAZINE while I smoked this cigar for a CIGAR JEDI review".
Last year I started doing reviews for the website Cigar Jedi. All reviews are blind, which is pretty humbling, but that's a whole different story. The webmaster is a really nice guy to work with, and at the beginning of the year he got the editor in chief position for Cigar & Spirits Magazine.
A few weeks ago he asked if I wanted to up my writing game and submit stuff for the magazine, assuming that since I'd usually add an alcoholic and non-alcoholic pairing suggestion to my reviews I'd like to do some booze/smoke writeups. I haven't had a drink in 7 years this July, but I was very very good at it, so I let him know I'd help however I could...I'm still a handy guy to have along for dinner when it comes to picking a wine and all that, I just don't drink.
Didn't think too much of it, but a couple of weeks ago he asked if we had a cigar lounge here in Kansas City that he could include in the upcoming issue. Just so happens we have a great, private club with a long history going back to before prohibition and includes ties to the old Pendergast political machine. Long story short, I ended up submitting what will be a featured lounge writeup in the Bourbon issue (fitting for me....that was my #1 poison) about KC's Pendergast Club.
Anyway, the money going forward won't be enough to retire on, but I'll be able to score the occasional five pack of cigars. I promise to refrain from shilling the mag on here, feel free to call me out if my daily smoke posts start sounding like "and just so happened to be reading CIGAR AND SPIRITS MAGAZINE while I smoked this cigar for a CIGAR JEDI review".
