http://absinthe-review.net/forums/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:02:11 -0500 MyBB http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=302 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:48:08 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=302 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KOPil9ABUg]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KOPil9ABUg]]> http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=301 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:30:44 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=301
If there's some actual committed interest, I'd make it a point to hang around, because there are plenty of you folks I'd love to chat with more!]]>
If there's some actual committed interest, I'd make it a point to hang around, because there are plenty of you folks I'd love to chat with more!]]> http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=300 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:08:44 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=300
If there's some actual committed interest, I'd make it a point to hang around, because there are plenty of you folks I'd love to chat with more!]]>
If there's some actual committed interest, I'd make it a point to hang around, because there are plenty of you folks I'd love to chat with more!]]> http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=299 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:35:52 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=299 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=298 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:15:35 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=298 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=295 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:01:27 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=295 A few of my all time fav's are: "To kill a Mocking Bird", "Sophie's Chioce", "Norma Ray", "Out of Africa", "Like Water for Chocolate", "Street Car Named Desire", "My Man Godfrey", My Fair Lady", "Suddenly last Summer", "House of the Spirits", and many more!! So what are your favourites new and old?]]> A few of my all time fav's are: "To kill a Mocking Bird", "Sophie's Chioce", "Norma Ray", "Out of Africa", "Like Water for Chocolate", "Street Car Named Desire", "My Man Godfrey", My Fair Lady", "Suddenly last Summer", "House of the Spirits", and many more!! So what are your favourites new and old?]]> http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=294 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:26:50 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=294 This is Jerome. I am professionally a Web-designer. At present, I am staying in Miami currently. I find forum discussion, a very interesting stuff to do. I used to hang out with these forums during my spare time. Many topics have got a healthy discussion over here. I think it would be most enjoyable while doing discussions in this forums.And pleased to meet all the other members of this site.
]]> This is Jerome. I am professionally a Web-designer. At present, I am staying in Miami currently. I find forum discussion, a very interesting stuff to do. I used to hang out with these forums during my spare time. Many topics have got a healthy discussion over here. I think it would be most enjoyable while doing discussions in this forums.And pleased to meet all the other members of this site.
]]> http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=293 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:34:32 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=293 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=292 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:04 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=292 This is Edward, one half of the absinthe-making guys who make Edward III New York Absinthe, which just went on sale this week (finally!). My partner Mark and I spent a couple of years working on this project and yet we continue to learn more and more about absinthe every day. We're really psyched that absinthe is being made in the USA again and that there are so many out there to try. If anyone wants to ask anything please feel free. In the next few days we're expecting to hear the first feedback coming in since the first bottles were shipped. We're very interested to hear what people think so we can keep improving what we're doing.

Well, I guess that's all for now... just introducing myself.

Edward]]> This is Edward, one half of the absinthe-making guys who make Edward III New York Absinthe, which just went on sale this week (finally!). My partner Mark and I spent a couple of years working on this project and yet we continue to learn more and more about absinthe every day. We're really psyched that absinthe is being made in the USA again and that there are so many out there to try. If anyone wants to ask anything please feel free. In the next few days we're expecting to hear the first feedback coming in since the first bottles were shipped. We're very interested to hear what people think so we can keep improving what we're doing.

Well, I guess that's all for now... just introducing myself.

Edward]]> http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=290 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:45:29 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=290
Long estranged from his children and now faced with Alzheimer's, Bill Warrington decides that kidnapping April--his belligerent and beguiling 15-year-old granddaughter--is the only way to mend his family (if not his mind). So begins the journey of Bill Warrington's Last Chance, James King's remarkable fiction debut and winner of the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award that--according to bestselling author Sue Grafton--"is what reading is about and what a good book is supposed to do."

Video with the author can be found HERE, on the right side of the page.

You guys probably know by now that I prefer books that are older or written by obscure authors, but this is one new book that caught my eye last night. It will not be published until this fall, but has anyone read one of his other books?]]>
Long estranged from his children and now faced with Alzheimer's, Bill Warrington decides that kidnapping April--his belligerent and beguiling 15-year-old granddaughter--is the only way to mend his family (if not his mind). So begins the journey of Bill Warrington's Last Chance, James King's remarkable fiction debut and winner of the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award that--according to bestselling author Sue Grafton--"is what reading is about and what a good book is supposed to do."

Video with the author can be found HERE, on the right side of the page.

You guys probably know by now that I prefer books that are older or written by obscure authors, but this is one new book that caught my eye last night. It will not be published until this fall, but has anyone read one of his other books?]]> http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=289 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:54:47 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=289 THIS video a few days ago about the scumbags at Absinthe Original hosting their first US party for AO. Feel free to leave comments and rate accordingly. Anyway, the description would lead one to believe that they have many more of these parties planned, and I feel it is relevant being posted only a few days ago.

Originalabsinthe dot com has long been in the top US search results for "buy absinthe", so it's clear they still get customers despite being overseas going by the gimmick (and you'll hear this in the video) that "US absinthe is fake, ours is real".

Now, I'm glad that for the most part, people are past the absinthe/hallucinations deal. But this seems to be the next tidal wave of misunderstanding, that US absinthe is fake. In a sense, this is just as dangerous as anise-free/low anise "absinth" being labeled as real absinthe, as it drastically tries to skew the definition of what absinthe is.

What do you folks think? Is this a threat, or are overseas vendors too far gone when it comes to US sales for this to have any major significance?

EDIT: By the way, they are not on Real Absinthe Blog's list of US-approved absinthes. If anyone knows if they have applied or not, please post about it here.]]> THIS video a few days ago about the scumbags at Absinthe Original hosting their first US party for AO. Feel free to leave comments and rate accordingly. Anyway, the description would lead one to believe that they have many more of these parties planned, and I feel it is relevant being posted only a few days ago.

Originalabsinthe dot com has long been in the top US search results for "buy absinthe", so it's clear they still get customers despite being overseas going by the gimmick (and you'll hear this in the video) that "US absinthe is fake, ours is real".

Now, I'm glad that for the most part, people are past the absinthe/hallucinations deal. But this seems to be the next tidal wave of misunderstanding, that US absinthe is fake. In a sense, this is just as dangerous as anise-free/low anise "absinth" being labeled as real absinthe, as it drastically tries to skew the definition of what absinthe is.

What do you folks think? Is this a threat, or are overseas vendors too far gone when it comes to US sales for this to have any major significance?

EDIT: By the way, they are not on Real Absinthe Blog's list of US-approved absinthes. If anyone knows if they have applied or not, please post about it here.]]> http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=288 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:10:51 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=288
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hTbRqZcnjQ]]>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hTbRqZcnjQ]]> http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=287 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:27:46 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=287
So dammit, now I'm a bit conflicted because I've just been tossing everything after it has been inputted to my comp. But maybe she has a point, maybe I should keep some stuff for nostalgic purposes down the road.

What do you folks think? Do you keep your hand written pages/notes?]]>
So dammit, now I'm a bit conflicted because I've just been tossing everything after it has been inputted to my comp. But maybe she has a point, maybe I should keep some stuff for nostalgic purposes down the road.

What do you folks think? Do you keep your hand written pages/notes?]]> http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=286 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:08:56 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=286
I woke up to a literal avalanche in my backyard / patio area ... fucking ridiculous ....

22" snow here ...
walked 3 miles in it last night ... quite a work-out !!!!!!
the absinthe i'd had prior helped to tough through it and not feel the cold/pain ...

vive la absinthe]]>
I woke up to a literal avalanche in my backyard / patio area ... fucking ridiculous ....

22" snow here ...
walked 3 miles in it last night ... quite a work-out !!!!!!
the absinthe i'd had prior helped to tough through it and not feel the cold/pain ...

vive la absinthe]]> http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=285 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:23:08 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=285
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtTVqMDZS0A]]>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtTVqMDZS0A]]> http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=283 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:47:15 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=283
Is there anything from last year you'd like to see changed? And ideas to make the survey more accessible or effective? I would love to hear your thoughts!]]>
Is there anything from last year you'd like to see changed? And ideas to make the survey more accessible or effective? I would love to hear your thoughts!]]> http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=281 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:50:39 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=281 I first tried absinthe about two years ago and that put completely new perspective in my live.. Like I was reborn.
I really respect absinthe and the culture of it.
I know, that people have wrong perspective of what absinthe is and what it does to you and I known, that each of Absinteurs are here to change that perspective..I know I'm doing that pretty good.

I hope we'll get along here and have a lot of fun..

this one is on you. Cheers!]]> I first tried absinthe about two years ago and that put completely new perspective in my live.. Like I was reborn.
I really respect absinthe and the culture of it.
I know, that people have wrong perspective of what absinthe is and what it does to you and I known, that each of Absinteurs are here to change that perspective..I know I'm doing that pretty good.

I hope we'll get along here and have a lot of fun..

this one is on you. Cheers!]]> http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=280 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:36:49 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=280 Lemme start off

Morning heat

morning heat, listing to the Doors
“…on and on and on…
…drown myself in mystic heated wine…”
mystic heated wine?
when i was younger i bounced
a wine bottle off a tree
it came back, and
hit me in the head
“i christen this, day of Dionysis” thud!
we were artsy and drunk,
in the kudzu. it was a hot day
we took off all our clothes

august, the harvested rye
brown stubby stalks, in rows
dusty rows, we ran through
happy zealous dogs
life in the present
anxious and blurred
rising dust from bare feet
back-dropped by plush kudzu
dry soil, ashy, softer than
beach sand, between the toes
amidst rows of stiff stalks
cut short, near the ground

it was religion, then
christ, a cheap bottle of wine
god, the words exactly, rolling
through kudzu, the sting
unbroken wine bottle
against the forehead
a hangover, later
a real religion]]> Lemme start off

Morning heat

morning heat, listing to the Doors
“…on and on and on…
…drown myself in mystic heated wine…”
mystic heated wine?
when i was younger i bounced
a wine bottle off a tree
it came back, and
hit me in the head
“i christen this, day of Dionysis” thud!
we were artsy and drunk,
in the kudzu. it was a hot day
we took off all our clothes

august, the harvested rye
brown stubby stalks, in rows
dusty rows, we ran through
happy zealous dogs
life in the present
anxious and blurred
rising dust from bare feet
back-dropped by plush kudzu
dry soil, ashy, softer than
beach sand, between the toes
amidst rows of stiff stalks
cut short, near the ground

it was religion, then
christ, a cheap bottle of wine
god, the words exactly, rolling
through kudzu, the sting
unbroken wine bottle
against the forehead
a hangover, later
a real religion]]> http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=279 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:43:12 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=279
I think they're from satan and have since eliminated all of mine (holy water was involved). But I sadly realized I need a photo of one. I'd credit you, of course.

I'm pretty sure this is some kind of karma but just what kind I can't tell. If need be I'll just buy one, photograph it, and then burn it in some kind of ritual. I hate them.]]>
I think they're from satan and have since eliminated all of mine (holy water was involved). But I sadly realized I need a photo of one. I'd credit you, of course.

I'm pretty sure this is some kind of karma but just what kind I can't tell. If need be I'll just buy one, photograph it, and then burn it in some kind of ritual. I hate them.]]> http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=278 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:41:18 -0500 http://absinthe-review.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=278 There's too many favourites to list so I'll just start with a few. One of my all time favourites in non-fiction is "Wild Swans" by Jung Chang. I've read so many great novels it's hard to pick, so here's just a few:"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabrielle Garcia Marquez, "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, "The Kite Runner", The Samuri's Garden by Gail Tsukiama and "The Master & Margarita" by Bulgakov......
The list does go on......
Recommendations greatly accepted! ]]> There's too many favourites to list so I'll just start with a few. One of my all time favourites in non-fiction is "Wild Swans" by Jung Chang. I've read so many great novels it's hard to pick, so here's just a few:"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabrielle Garcia Marquez, "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, "The Kite Runner", The Samuri's Garden by Gail Tsukiama and "The Master & Margarita" by Bulgakov......
The list does go on......
Recommendations greatly accepted! ]]>