Written by Briley on April 15, 2026
Break time over, cigar-thirty is on
I’m back, and I’m ready to dive into some more cigar content all from my unique perspective. Okay, maybe I’m not that unique. There are a lot of people that love cigars and probably share similar views as I do. But the point is I’m going to be focusing on cigar content again.
Where’d you go?
You may be wondering why I took a break. Or, maybe you don’t care. Doesn’t matter, you’re getting the low-down anyway. I’ll do my best not to get political but at least some of that can’t be helped. The biggest reason I took a break was simply that I needed one.
I was firing on all cylinders writing for my personal sites, diving back into work, and doing some creative stuff on the side and it all became too much. A lot of my hobbies dwindled down, naturally, because I was investing more time elsewhere and cigars, or really the celebration of smoking cigars, grew less frequent. That’s not to say I haven’t been smoking cigars all this time — of course I have — but it became less of a primary focus.
The world is really fucking weird right now
The break was also spurred on because I decided to step away from social media as much as humanly possible. With the Epstein bullshit, the disenfranchised job market, tech bros ruining life through AI and big data, and the current administration wreaking total havoc on the world, it was long overdue. I also run a tech site called Techigar and spend time writing for various publications in that world. There’s so much noise about it these days.
I mean, I still ask myself constantly “what the actual fuck are we doing?” Pedophiles run the country. Greedy fucks scoop up all the extra. Jobs are disappearing at alarming rates, mostly because companies are increasing profits — and they still have record profits, by the way, so there’s no reason for it whatsover.
Plus, most people are just really fucking stupid about it all. Not in the sense that they don’t have the smarts to think or reason for themselves — although some don’t — but more in the sense that no one is willing to pause, look at where we are, and really dig into why this two-party, them-versus-me bullshit is just not working. The rich get richer and rob from the rest of us. The administration grows bolder every day, whittling away rights and stomping all over civil liberties and the world itself is honestly descending into absolute chaos and everything is super fucking weird.
So, I stepped away. I got tired of people talking about that nonsense on social media, and everyone is so damn blind to what is really happening, and it made it tough to focus on some of the things I love. Maybe you understand where I’m coming from, maybe you don’t, but that’s the best justification I got.
Back with a cleansed palate
At any rate, I’ve restocked my humidor. I’m doing it regularly, too. I’ve tried a bunch of new releases — most of them I didn’t like — and I’m ready to start talking about cigars and tobacco again. Without further ado, welcome back, probably mostly to me if there are any of you that have been out there all along. Let’s get cigar-thirty started, shall we?
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