Not a huge post, but a break from all this blubbering about the book is nice. Aldous Huxley. I’ve posted this one before but they were of lower quality: Cristina Fernandez: Fran Lebowitz: H.L. Menken: Ian Fleming: John Maynard Keynes: Kurt Vonnegut: Murray Rothbard: Road Dahl: Stephen King. That’s Drew Barrymore with the match: William … Photos of Smoking Writers – Back from the Dead
It’s been a while since I did one of these, but the post I did earlier on Russell’s teapot lit a match and ignited the shreds of inspiration tobacco in my bloodstream. Albert Camus: Albert Einstein: Aldous Huxley: Bertrand Russell: George Edward Moore: Harold Lesch: Jean Baudrill: Jean-Paul Sartre: Karl Barth: Mircea Eliade: Oscar Wilde: … A Compendium of Smoking Writers, Mostly Bertrand Russell Edition
My friend Ben Pike asked me why I hadn’t posted any photos of Ayn Rand smoking in my previous posts. The exclusion wasn’t intentional; I had a folder of just her sitting around that I was planning on unleashing. Now is that time. I didn’t find many photos of her. Let’s face it, she wasn’t … A Minor Compendium of Black and White Photos of Writers Smoking – Ayn Rand Edition
I’m due for another one of these, and I kind of miss blatantly stealing images of beauty without attribution, from bloggers and websites that did the same (I did steal some of them from The Gentleman). Of note are the reprisals of Chesterton, looking as crabby as ever, and Alan Moore with his life-long imitation … A Compendium of Smoking Writers, Part Four or Five or Around There
See my other smoking writers posts here and here. I decided to incorporate color shots; I predict that a scarcity of black and white ones would eventually show itself. There are some repeats, like Alan Moore but in a more candid setting. Other ones, like Moore, just have a wonderful visual character about them that … More Photos of Smoking Writers, and Not Just Black and White Ones
I’ve gotten a few positive emails about the post I did of some favorite writers of mine sucking on the sweet brown lettuce, so I’ve decided to do another bakers’ dozen. This time around it’s not necessarily some personal favorites (though there a few in here), but they are sufficiently qualified in all the other … Another Compendium of Black & White Photos of Smoking Writers
Umberto Eco: Sinclair Lewis: Malcolm Muggeridge: Kurt Vonnegut: J.R.R. Tolkein: John Steinbeck: J.D. Salinger: G.K. Chesterton: George Orwell: F. Scott Fitzgerald: David Eddings: C.S. Lewis: Alan Moore: