Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

It is a green drink otherwise known as The Green Fairy. I understand is not anywhere as strong as it was back in its heyday. Many of my most favorite intellectuals and artists of that time consumed it regularly: Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso, Oscar Wilde, and Vincent Van Gogh.

I'm sort of obsessed with it right now--the way I get you know.  I am not usually one for licorice/anise flavor, but the whole ritual of the drink, the lovely perforated absinthe spoon resting on the glass holding the sugar cube (one bartender dripped absinthe over the cube slowly, another lit the cube on fire after a bit of absinthe had absorbed), sipping it so slowly in the dark....it seemed to agree quite well with me and made me happy..... Here is more info for you

The Princes Behind the Green Door

Here it is, inside. After a lovely meal with John & Sanoe, where else but this lovely place. Where else other than the fantasy smoke and mirrors of this city would a little dream of a Prince appear from nowhere to play for a crowd of maybe 100 people? And there I am, literally a foot away from the tiny man. A little girl from VA with a little girl from Hawaii seeing the man from the Paisley Park perform in that setting. (Missy Miles, wow, do you remember watching Purple Rain? Well, he hasn't aged at all....) And then there is the other little Prince Johnny who was such a gentleman to pass along his hat to "the" Prince and bring over a velvet tufted seat for his girlfriend. Goodnight Hollywood.