Countless blogs compete for the world's attention so if a blog is to stand out and be recognized it must be unique and interesting, perhaps have a creative theme in addition to top notch content.

Here, as it should be, content will be king.

Beyond what is hopefully superb content though, this blog will have a theme. Something I did give some measure of thought.

Certainly this could be an erotically themed blog. Like any warm-blooded male I spend a great deal of time with sex on my mind. Perhaps even more than most men, but who could fault me given the woman who shares my home. She's forty years old but looks half that, with a world class ass, a woman who is quite literally the wet dream for so many who cross her path. Of course the latex, leather, and lace clothing she wears so regularly adds to my interest, as do the steamy photographs she provides me with on a rather frequent basis.

The theme of this blog could be 100% raw politics. Without a doubt I know the subject well enough, and I spend many days ranting of nothing else, but all of life cannot be politics. There is so much more to experience, so much more to enjoy. Besides, a politically themed blog is more likely than not going to end up as a political party themed blog and nothing irritates me more than writers and talking heads who have become empty shirt party apologists. Certainly both our major parties have led our great nation astray and honesty demands that they both be held to account.

The west and its traditions could be the theme of this blog. I do delight in much of the west, including the traditional clothing. Certainly nothing says America, the world over, like a Stetson Hat and Western Boots. That appeals to my patriotic side, my fondness for the west, and indeed such clothing is practical too. Alas though, while I can enjoy such things they are not completely me, they lack a mystical hold upon my imagination.

In the end The Mayor's Vice was born a blog about smoking pipes and smoking pipes make a wonderful theme for it as it changes and grows. In today's world pipemen are rare, tobaccos are in a golden age, and pipes themselves are truly amazing practical works of art, and generally priced as such.

The pipe leads a man to contemplation, something extremely important when he must pass judgment on the issues of the day.

The pipe leads a man to fellowship; quality fellowship being something that none of us should be without.

The pipe causes a man to stand out from his peers, a fitting reward for the years of work he put into the mastery of the art and science of pipe smoking.

I am, at core, a hedonist. I shall not deny myself the joys of tobacco, but neither shall I be ordinary. Other men may live lives of austere misery or get cheap nicotine hits from cigarettes. Not I, I revel in pleasure and a fine English tobacco smoldering in a fine English pipe is one of the sublime pleasures of life.

Thought, reason, judgment, fellowship, individuality, dedication, sensuality. These are hallmarks of the pipe; these make it the perfect theme for this blog.