It was a fun night at SCOWL (aka “sewing & crafting… or whatever, losers!”). Armed with only a few crude printouts, we attempted food alchemy with gummy bears. The above video sums up the bulk of our projects fairly well. The green gummies are now soaking in Czech absinthe while what’s left of the red [...]
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Paul Nathan’s tour of Guy Distilleries
My friend Paul Nathan has recently posted a video of his tour of the Distilleries Françoise Guy, one of the oldest absinthe distilleries in the world. The video follows the process from anise to absinthe. Paul has also posted a great blog about the tour on his Myspace blog. If you live in the Bay, [...]
Nearly a century of absinth-tinence
Last year my girlfriend and I invited her aunt and uncle to one of Paul’s famous absinthe parties in San Francisco. They were worried about the legality and risk of a party like this, to which we responded “The parties are fine, we’ve been going for a few years now with no problems.” So the [...]
And yet another Absinthe Party
To all my Bay Area friends, here’s a special heads up. I’ll be performing my amazing retro winding double-knob toy at an absinthe party in San Francisco on Saturday (August 18th). Sorry to be so vague, but I’m sure most folks reading this already know the important details. If you would like to attend, but [...]
Paul got his absinthe back
In December I was at an absinthe party at the Climate Theater that got raided. Shan brought her aunt and uncle, and the whole thing happened right as we were ordering our drinks. Awkward. Paul, the promoter, kept the details of the raid quiet until his court date. It turned out that the case was [...]
