Were you watching the Emily Brill "Ray of Light" video at the same time? Because that made me see red and feel like throwing up by itself.

Prepare it properly. dilute it with water poured through ice until it becomes light and cloudy. Then let the thujone take you away-way.

Whatever you do, don't drink it neat.

Eurotrip was a lie?!

Fucking scientists, ruining everything.
"Don't sleep with your cousin, your babies will come out weird", "Don't inhale that sweet, sweet glue, it'll hurt your brains"... now this.
Leave my recreational activities alone and go cure cancer, assholes.

science, unless it's weird, is such a buzz kill

The psychedelic properties of absinthe are just a century of mythology, albeit an attractive and fun mythology. It makes for a very nice buzz though, if a bit sweet.

I went through an Absinthe phase, and I can tell you that there are no psychedelic affects. However, it does get you drunk as fuck, so if you drink enough, the room will start to spin.

I've had it several times and it tastes like someone microwaved 4 lbs of licorice in an ashtray from an AA meeting and then strained the contents through King Tut's mummy wrappings. If that's your idea of a good time, my hat's off to you, but if you want a pleasant psychedelic drinking experience, try downing some mushrooms with a case of Sam Adams.

Absinth is a glittery novelty that tastes like sweetened shite (in my humble, educated i.e. *cough* LUSH oppinion).

Backwoods moonshine is where it's at.
Burns so damn dood.

Plus, it's fun to watch people's tainted expressions when their sinus spontaneously combusts and they realize flatly, though they never initially ask, "Bitch this is NOT vodka!"

You just may need to keep drinking.

Science is all reproducible results.

@IBentMyWookie: Mmmmmmmm.... glue.

So Miley is endorsing absinthe now?!

@luciluce666: *Burns so damn GOOD... dood.

@cockfightbarmitzvah:
Hell Yeah!

And for the record, I will get you both drunk AND high.

That's the way I roll.

@valarmorghulis: No intoxicant is worth my time unless it requires a veritable armory of paraphernalia and accoutrements such as cuilleres and brouilleurs.

Seriously, people in the Victorian era couldn't take a shit without some kind of embellished silver gadget.

Blakeley, McGlynn and I wound up at an Absinthe tasting party last night @ the Bowery Hotel. It was pretty psychedelic, to say the least. Check out pics, via Random Night Out:

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It was often mixed with laudanum - that's what made it hallucinogenic.

Abysinthe is the Night Train of the year 2017.

I heard there was lead or some other toxic shit in it, as well, which is why it is green. Or that's why it USED to be green; now it's just some of New Jersey's finest in there.

@JDel: Ohmigawd, which one you is this and why are you so adorable and can I keep you in a little jar and bring you out when I'm feeling down?

I discovered a novel technique in Liepaja, Latvia wherein the bartender lights the absinthe on fire, snuffs the flame with an inverted brandy snifter, and provides a bendy-straw for you to inhale the fumes out of the inverted snifter before handing you the absinthe -- mixed with apple juice -- to down. Definitely enhanced the buzz.

Also, she may have been fucking with us.

That's why I always imbibe absinthe with a capful of LSD.

But this was how I was planning to get rid of my third ear!

@IBentMyWookie: Me! And only if you put breathing holes in the aforementioned jar.

I studied in Barcelona for a term, and when I mentioned to my mum, who's a botanist, that we were really getting into this absinthe they sold there, she freaked out and mailed me a bunch of xeroxed pages from the textbooks she was teaching, about how Thujone is this nasty 'nerve toxin' that drives lab rats insane.
I was like, yeah, that's the *point*, and it's great. And I could swear that an absenta drunk does feel like something a little different; even more so the hangover the next day, which is more jittery and twitchy, and pleasant, than your common garden hangover.
At first, we *were* drinking it straight, in shots as if it was tequila, and the Catalans we were partying with were like 'dudes, wtf?'. Then we started finding bars that served it (the Almiral, in Barri Xines - go there!) and got hip to the special fork, water and the burning sugar cube... mmm, that's tasty

@JDel: I promise! And I'll provide water and keep the dogs away from you.
Can I dress you up in little outfits? Oh please, oh please say yes!

I have that poster in my apartment. or maybe it's just a hallucination...

@AuntPeniston: Like Brian May said, "You can't just jump right in and go. There are procedures."

We like procedures.

In that vein, I'm going to pick up some shisha on the way home tonight.

tried a glass of absinthe and my body promptly threw it up five minutes later. i was completely fine afterwards and stuck to beer for the rest of the night. i love it when i boot and rally.

@IBentMyWookie: All outfits need to be pre-approved. No lace, leather, spandex, latex, any other kind of -ex, heels, makeup, bows, skirts, dresses, capris, booty shorts, jean shorts, wife beaters, or anything from American Eagle. Basically any type of hoodie, t-shirt, and skinny jean combination is fine. Oh and top hats are fine too, I know there's a fair amount of novelty associated with them.

@JDel: I'll meet you halfway on the hoodies if you make a concession for the bows. Just one, on the crown of your head, and only when I present you at shows?
Also, an ascot. That one's not negotiable.

@JDel: Where do you stand on knee socks?

This is not the proper way to bust a myth. I demand that Kari from MythBusters immediately submit herself to an absinthe experiment and that Annie Leibovitz be there to document it.

@bess marvin, girl detective: The only time i've yaked from absinthe it was within two minutes of consumption, it was all I had had, and it came up black. I don't mean, "wow, that's a much darker shade of green than what went down." I mean opaque, dark, like motor oil. The next one stayed down just fine though and I proceded to get extreemly ferschnickled.

@valarmorghulis:I still wonder what exactly came up though.

@Phyllis Nefler: Knee socks are fine, lest they not interfere with my skinny jeans.

unless the Absinthe comes from the old, original French family breweries it doesn't contain wormwood or else the Czech Republic (trace amounts). I got my hands on an old French bottle & threw up any positive effect. The article suggests the 13 old bottles tried only had trace amounts of wormwood, like the Czech kind, which I have now & it doesn't do much. I brought back a tube of wormwood from an Amsterdam shop, infused my Czech Absinthe, and threw up & felt fairly trippy. I think it depends on how much wormwood was added & they need to keep trying.

@IBentMyWookie: Oh and just like my cousin's chihuahuas, you have to have matching "T-Birds" and "Pink Ladies" outfits from Grease.
How about those wheelie running shoes with the little flashing lights in them! Those look like fun. But don't forget his radio collar!

@valarmorghulis:Then perhaps you'll be using this--one of the scarier-looking hookah accessories.

It's a foil-puncher, but looks like some kind of torture device. Or cattle prod.

I'm surprised only by the fact that there are still people who think absinthe causes/caused hallucinations by any means other than consistent and excessive consumption. This is old news.

...still, it's a fun hypothesis to test yourself.

@minx: I had some of the French absinthe. I didn't hallucinate, but I do credit it with my love for and tolerance of tequila. The absinthe burned like hell, and tequila was the only thing there was to chase with. In comparison, the tequila went down like water.

@AuntPeniston: That would be awesome! Actually though my tongs are intentionally curved and pointed for that purpose. I may be picking one of those up soon though...there could be other uses.

I made 'homemade' absinthe in college. You know, soaked wormwood in a bottle of everclear for like a week.

I woke up missing about 4 inches of my hair which I have yet to find.

So, I guess that means I wouldn't recommend it. And apparently you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet, either. hmm.

@IBentMyWookie: Suck it Wookie. We brought you LSD, and now dad's dead. Hope you're happy.