Month: December 2013

Hm. Gave me a flushed face and a tiny bellyache. No mad rush of creativity. I asked the waitress why it was named Lucid, and she said, “Well I don’t know, but have you ever done cocaine and alcohol together?” “No” I said. “We’ll it’s like that. You don’t get sloppy drunk, you get lucid…

WHO NAMES A DRINK LUCID

I just shouted FRANCE when La Vie en Rose began to play at the bar

Absinthe allll gone

The green fairy!

When I learned that the wormwood properties of absinthe had been restored in 2007 I said, “set me up.”

Required experiences: eating at Antonines (sort of) and Pat O’Brian (sort of), watching someone vomit on the street, ghost tour, Farmers / French market, bread pudding, Cana cakes, continued search for chicken and waffles. Gary woke up feeling like he was catching a cold. After a breakfast of Cana cakes and ham, we came came…

Required experiences: jambalaya, oysters, street theater, shrimp and grits, second line again, coffee, seamy side of bourbon street, voodoo We slept in because, I forgot to mention, we stayed up and watched Austenland on the hotel pay per view. We didn’t make it to Stanley for breakfast until noon. Eggs Benedict with oysters this time.…