2008.01.21
Absinthe Again (or Not)
Last summer on my trip to Europe (part business, part pleasure) I picked up a bottle of absinthe in Prague. I also picked up four brilliant antique glasses in Paris to drink it in. Alas, I can’t seem to get my varied friends together to sample the “green fairy.”
Absinthe WritingIt’s funny because I noticed Jordan (who seems to lack permalinks?) recently posted his story quest for absinthe. Reading his story got me thinking about the absinthe again. My first experience with it was when I lived in Prague. My friend Richmond and I were sitting in Bunkr. I was writing and drawing in my journal when the first shot arrived, Bohemian style. My writing is pretty clear and coherent if a bit depressing. A musing about my love life. The drawing I made was pretty good, though. By the time I had the second shot my handwriting is straying and pretty messy. Clearly my thoughts are wandering, too.
After the third shot… Well, I don’t know what the heck I was writing about, and it’s barely legible anyways! Well, that’s not true… Obviously I was thinking naughty thoughts in a vampiric way. Even reading it now my eyebrows are crinkling and I’m thinking, “What the heck was I thinking?!?”
Anyways, the point is that absinthe is an interesting drink and it would be fun for me to see how my friends react to it. How to convince them?
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8 Responses to “Absinthe Again (or Not)”
- Jordan says (January 22nd, 2008 at 16:37:16 )
Permalinks are for people who have real solutions, not for people who build their website with a jumble of Apple Pages, Panic’s Coda and AppleScript.
But if you really must know, the current “tempalink” is:
http://chaosserver.net/#20080112And when it rolls off the main page the “permalink” will be:
http://chaosserver.net/archives/2008/01/index.html#20080112I am up for the Green Fairy any day of the week… that is not a school night.
- Nob Hill Ken says (January 22nd, 2008 at 16:57:04 )
I don’t need any convincing. Just name a day.
- Aida says (January 22nd, 2008 at 18:20:53 )
Absinthe is apparently Jonny Deep’s favourite drink. If you could get him to come around I’ll happily fly over… and then I can fly back home to Melbourne with a Green Fairy!
(It’s a pitty though it won’t be Bohemian style)- Nob Hill Ken says (January 22nd, 2008 at 22:44:15 )
I’m tempapermanently convinced that everyone just needs to chill and have a drink, eh.
*Relax*
- douglas says (January 22nd, 2008 at 22:58:39 )
I couldn’t agree with you more on that one!
- Zapski says (January 30th, 2008 at 10:41:50 )
If you need to buy more, there is genuine Absinthe being made in the US again (not the fake, but real). Plus there is genuine Swiss Absinthe available as well.
You can get it from Drink UP NY. They do ship, and are very fast with the delivery. I ordered a bottle from them at 1 pm, they sent the confirmation at 1:20, and I had it the next day. Free shipping too.
- KT says (February 10th, 2008 at 15:20:44 )
I know many of your friends. What about them makes you think you’d need to convince them to drink much of anything?
- douglas says (February 10th, 2008 at 15:21:15 )
Because I’ve already tried…
