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As I was reading this thread, I was thinking "I must link that story". Oh well.
The only absinth you can get here (NZ) is horrible stuff, only good for getting drunk quick. I'd like to get hold of some real stuff, as I have begun to drink for the drink, rather than the drunkeness (not that that isn't also fun), tequilla being my current drink of choice.
It's interesting to note (from that article) that there's almost no thujole (the chemical, to which the madness absinth is thought cause, is atributed) in good absinth.
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"Oh, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83 when I was the only practitioner of it, and I stopped because I was tired of being stared at."
Omnia mutantu, nos et mutamur in illis.
All things change, and we change with them.
- Neil Gaiman, Marvel 1602
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