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[dwenius]

Previously established Thanksgiving traditions at our house:
1. Absinthe drinking
2. The wearing of wigs, both costume and "realistic".

Newly established Thanksgiving traditions as of this year:
1. Finger puppets
2. Dramatic readings from 60s smut novels(*), round robin style. Everyone opens a book at random and suggests a line to advance the narrative.

* 60s smut novels provided free of charge by previous house owner. They fell out of the wall. No, really. Did I tell this story already?

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

No, sir, i believe you have not told that story.

[goddessem.livejournal.com]

If you did tell that story, I missed it.

[anavolena.livejournal.com]

Which absinthe(s) do you drink?

[sambushell.livejournal.com]

60's smut novels are one of the new environmental building materials. Very low voc.

[epileptikitty.livejournal.com]

In fact they are worth thousands of kopeks on the black market. Especially these. Hurrr hurrr!

[dwenius.livejournal.com]

Right then, I'll get right on that.

[dwenius.livejournal.com]

We still have a bottle of Lucid, and I still like it. A guest brought a bottle of a Swiss variety; don't recall the name. It was clear, not green, which I found odd, although it louched up to nearly the same color as the Lucid. The taste and aroma was much sweeter and almost wholly anise, where the Lucid has spicy notes. The swiss was also "only" 100 proof, where the Lucid is 140. On the whole I preferred the Lucid and I'm glad we didn't wipe out the bottle :)

Have you found another readily U.S.-available brand?

[anavolena.livejournal.com]

I like Lucid as well. Also have a bottle of La Fée Parisienne which I need to write up a review of; the short of it is louches beautifully, but very flat with just a dominant anise note.

Pernod's absinthe is widely available here; haven't tried it yet but have heard mostly "meh" reviews, complaining they went for something that tastes more like Pernod than their pre-ban absinthe recipe.

Kubler is supposed to be very nice.

I'll hopefully get to try Obsello soon. I'm hearing nothing but good things about Marteau, which just launched (being distilled in Portland, OR).

And believe it or not, I hear Mansinthe is actually quite good.