The first time I drank absinthe I was visiting my brother and his roommates at their condo in downtown Toronto. Gabor, my brother’s Hungarian friend, had smuggled some back from his homeland. At that time, the green stuff was entirely illegal in Canada. Now you can buy it at the government regulated liquor stores (but it’s seriously feeble shit). I was seventeen. I took a shot or two. I felt nothing. The second time, I was in a photo studio that belonged to a high-school friend of mine. I was posing as a tormented 19th-century writer. Which was easy because I am a tormented 21st-century writer. My girlfriend was posing nude in the shots with me as the ‘green fairy’. She looked hot.…
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These days, I drink more Gin & Sodas than anything else. And I’ve got it down to a science. It’s not really about quality ingredients. I have no doubt that a perfectly prepared gin & soda containing bathtub gin and no-name soda water is more palatable than a miserably prepared gin & soda made with Tanqueray No. TEN and a soda siphon. It’s in the process, not the product. Based on my experience this recipe is perfect for scorching mid-days by a cold pool in the tropics, frigid nights in the dead of winter with or without a fireplace, before a massage, during a massage, after a massage, while reading Hemingway; Dickens; Kerouac; Hunter S.; Ayn Rand; Foster Wallace; National Geographic or…