I have only come across absinthe once and to my understanding that isnt a bad thing considering its effect on the body with long term use. In the middle of the night I hopped over the gate that surrounded my friends apartment complex in North Hollywood off of Ventura Blvd. I then proceeded to reach his balcony which happened to look out over the house widely known as the 70s television Brady Bunch home. I knocked on the door unannounced and because we were close friends he didnt mind so much.

He was one of the few actors that i ever met in Hollywood that I thought was worth a damn. Some family of his happened to be from the Czech Republic and had just recently sent him a bootleg stash of absinthe. We then partook of this anise-flavored Spirit to our hearts content and meandered upon ramblings of old films and our forefather craftsmen. This in turn shortly afterwords found us delivering words of "Hamlet" and "Much Ado About Nothing" back and forth to eachother in a sublime intuitive daze. If that is possible.

The night ended with him mumbling beside me and periodically drooping his head on my shoulder while i discovered it was time to finally exit while i still could make the trip home