So you might remember quite some time back, I posted that killer tee from La Fee Absinthe in France and mentioned that they ship bottles to the US. I told you all to go order some and let me know if you got it. Well, nobody said anything about it, so I had to do it myself. About 4 or 5 days later, a nice descretely marked cardboard box straight from France arrived at my doorstep. Bottles and Absinthe spoon intact. So after searching all over Dallas for 2 days for some fuckin’ sugar cubes (apparently kids make igloos out of them or some shit for school projects about this time of year, little bastards!), I finally found some at Central Market. 9 bucks for 1 pound of cubes… that’s right. 9 US dollars! For some sugar, sourced from the Congo or some shit, packaged in France and marked way the fuck up. But I wasn’t leaving that store empty handed. I had to have the cubes to prepare my first glass of the green fairy. So here I am now, cloudy green concoction in hand, writing to all of you. *sip* This stuff is 68% alcohol and has the wormwood, like the original, not the bullshit they sell in liquor stores here in the states that they call absinthe. This is the real thing. It’s smooth and has no alcohol burn - 68%! Strong licorice taste from the anise… *sip* Apparently the myths about the hallucinations, madness and all that are bullshit, but we’ll see what happens. All in the name of journalism, of course…

PS: If you happen to be some sort of Federal Agent or something, I was just kidding about living in Texas. I actually live in the UK, Texans just always seem so bloody cowboy cool on the tele. Remember the alamo, mate! Cheers!