Absinthe Redux
Wired has a neat article about an absinthe distiller who has discovered the art of making an absinthe that Toulouse-Lautrec wouldn't be ashamed to drink -- and who proves that it's not as dangerous as some naysayers think. Ever since absinthe became legal in the EU in the late 80's, it's been available there mostly in a lesser, bottom-shelf form. I thought I was cool when I had some in Edinburgh in 2001, but now I realize I quaffed a phony concoction.
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A lot of eastern europe thrives on selling foreigners fake absinthe. it's more anise than wormword.
Although the article in some ways downplays the significance of wormwood.
Thank you for this posting. I can't tell you how many arguments I've had with dipshits who studied abroad for a semester, and consider themselves experts on European bohemianism,and boast about the "hallucinations" they had during their shitty, youth hostelling, weekend in Paris.
My neighbor downstairs is a major absinthe fiend. She smuggled in a bunch from some eastern european country and swears by it. I had some, but not much happened, except she hit on me. Maybe I looked like a green fairy to her.
Forget the rediscovery of Absinthe. According to the US department of energy, and the fine folks at "Harpers" magazine, we'll soon all be eating industrially grown meat. Yup, sans cow, pig or chicken, genetically real meat will be produced in factories, as soon as they figure out how to get the texture right and it becomes economically sustainable. Finally! The meat plant America has long been waiting for.
What will it be called? Just "meat"?
yes. but the quotation marks will be mandatory.
-2 many liams
Nota bene: "Liam" is a different Liam than "liam."
This is a little surreal...
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I like "l"iam's answer to your question better than my ("L"iam) own posting.
reminds me of your relative pronoun question: "that liam that that Liam referred to was that liam.