the$inmusicisallmine wrote:go nicky!

beat rossi!

How about that Assen last lap? Jesus!

And who designed that logo?


Looks like a olympic logo for the doggie style event. I'm always down for some A-style.

alex maiolo wrote:Last of all, Prague is one of the few places you can get real Absinthe.

that's debatable. "Real" Absinthe is generally held to be made to the French or Swiss recipes, the Czech version is not the same drink, although it does bear many similarities..it has it's own ingredient list and it's own tradition, although the latter is magnified by the traditional writer's craft applied liberally to the blurb on the bottles.

it does get you pissed though.

I'd rather drink Fernet.

They don't put wormwood in it anymore.

Chapter Two wrote:They don't put wormwood in it anymore.

I thought they did, the Czech one is missing a load of the other stuff though. I dunno, the people I've met who go on about it seem to have fallen for the mystique, like it's some kind of liquid opium, and are under the misapprehension that drinking it will lend them the louche air of a decadent French poet.
*edit* i'm not having a go at alex here, just some of the people i've met who've bored me on the subject, whilst we were drinking it.

same wrote:cheap, yes. good, well it's a crapshoot. i had probably the worst meal of my life in prague.

Ha, we did too. I think the surly Czechs were fucking with us. I can't read their language, so I just pointed at something on the menu that looked vaguely familiar, so did Ms. Zom.

I was served a burned sausage on a stale roll, the Ms. got some limp noodles tossed with imitation crab chunks and parsley.

However, I did have a really great dinner of pork, cabbage, potatoes, etc. with shots of booze and a few beers that set us back about $20 for two. A crap shoot unless you know Czech and such.

We picked up a "sandwich" at the train station on the way out, and the meat, paper-thin tomato slices and lettuce were only stationed at each end of the hoagie-style roll for appearance. In the middle was nothing.

Still, I had a good time and it was cheap.

vockins wrote:

the$inmusicisallmine wrote:go nicky!

beat rossi!

How about that Assen last lap? Jesus!

And who designed that logo?

Looks like a olympic logo for the doggie style event. I'm always down for some A-style.

i was happy/sad. I want nicky to win, but I like Colin too, and he so gets overshadowed by the Doctor. And the heroic way Colin caught and passed Nick on that last lap was amazing! I couldn't beleive he biffed it at the last corner.

I wish I was going to Laguna this year....

fiery jack wrote:

Chapter Two wrote:They don't put wormwood in it anymore.

I thought they did, the Czech one is missing a load of the other stuff though.

This article might be informative--it's about someone who's reverse-engineered the old methods of making absinthe. The kind of people FJ's talking about seem to worship thujone, but there's apparently very little of it in the real stuff.

And yeah, that logo is hilarious.

Maurice wrote:This article might be informative--.

good find, good article.

Glad you dug it. There's a better one in a recent New Yorker, but it's not online. For that one, the writer was present at one of Breaux's distillations, and the description of the process is quite interesting.

fiery jack wrote:

Chapter Two wrote:They don't put wormwood in it anymore.

I thought they did, the Czech one is missing a load of the other stuff though.

The right stuff is made with wormwood. They can't sell that in France though. French Absinthe doesn't have much in common with the real deal.

I dunno, the people I've met who go on about it seem to have fallen for the mystique, like it's some kind of liquid opium, and are under the misapprehension that drinking it will lend them the louche air of a decadent French poet.

I know what you mean. This stuff doesn't grow your hair long and give you syphillis. I just gives you a great buzz for a few hours. It will make you about as creative as pot does, would be my guess.
If pot makes you a genius, you're in luck. Otherwise, enjoy the droopy eyes and the smile. It's nice.

I also wanted to share that my best friend's dad, who is a francophile, artist, renaissance man and all round cool guy, who is also a Mayo clinic trained doc, said that the danger in wormwood is overblown, so not to worry. The turn of the century brain damage was probably a quality control thing (London Gin), and even if it wasn't, one lost weekend in Prague isn't going to melt your brain.

*edit* i'm not having a go at alex here, just some of the people i've met who've bored me on the subject, whilst we were drinking it.

Oh dude, I didn't take it that way at all. Thanks though.
No, if he was going to Kenya, I'd tell him to try AAA rated coffee, which they don't export. If he was headed to Thailand, I'd say try durian.
It just so happens that this particular specialty gets you drunk/high.

I have no time for the "vampyre/fairy" people. I guess I meant to say "faerie" people. That stuff is tiresome.

A pal of mine who lived in Prague told me what to look for, and told me that most of it was the right stuff - they wouldn't waste their time selling the stuff that's legal in France when they can sell the real deal.
No matter, it kicks ass man. Give it a try.

-A