The Royal Peacock Blog

Our first party in two years!

noreply@blogger.com (Sebastian Awatramani) — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:09:00 +0000

Absinthe makes my heart grow fonder (and my eyes see trails)

noreply@blogger.com (Sebastian Awatramani) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:29:00 +0000

I've had a pretty loyal following of Absinthe drinkers ever since I introduced the green fairy here in 2004, and that was before I started serving Lucid absinthe, which makes my old brand look like Jagermeister.

Me myself, I've been an avid fan of Absinthe ever since I first saw it in the music video for A Perfect drug back in 1997, but I didn't try it until a few years later in an underground, private absinthe club in LA. An avidly dark place, in a basement somewhere in Hollywood, lighted only by dim green bulbs and barely painted a picture of the classy, yet seedy, atmosphere.

My first experience was interesting to say the least, and that's about all I can say because I don't remember much else.

But either way, I was hooked. I can't imagine the thousands of dollars I spent having absinthe sent to me from Europe, before I discovered the not very well known loophole that allowed me to start serving it.

But to be honest, the previous brand was just OK. It technically had a similar chemical composition to the "real" stuff, but it simply wasn't potent enough after all the superior European that I consumed.

Now I have Lucid, which at first I was weary of. I didn't think it would compare, and boy was I wrong.

For those who haven't tried absinthe in general yet, I usually describe the effects as not quite a hallucination, at least in the visual sense, and after years of drinking I concluded that visual hallucinations were a myth.

Late one night about a month ago, my ex-girlfriend and I embarked on an absinthe journey. We each had about 4 in a period of a couple hours, and before we knew it it was 3am and she had to wake up for work in 6 hours. So I walk her outside and watch her walk to the newly-arrived taxi, and I'm confused for a second as I realize that she has a bright white, one foot aura extending from her body and following her as she walked.

Then I looked around and noticed that things seemed different - things were just not quite right.

Colors were brighter, shadows were darker and motion trails stuck to every car passing by. Everything was more extreme; cars were louder, music was more precise, and absinthe suddenly felt (and tasted) a lot more complex.

I haven't had an absinthe drink since then, and I'm a little afraid to because I don't want to drink it again, only to find that that experience won't repeat itself.

As I'm known to say, I guess time will tell.

Ciao

Deadly tomatoes

noreply@blogger.com (Sebastian Awatramani) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:15:00 +0000

People often ask what the point of serving local vegetables is if you can get non-local, but fresh and high quality vegetables for a fraction of the cost.

Although this question has many answers (keeping money in the community, for instance), very few things are as important as your health.

Boulder, unfortunately or not, has a LOT of restaurants. I don't know the exact numbers, but I know it's up there as far as per-capita restaurants in this country goes.

So when you go out at night, you have a lot of options, but at certain times not as many as you think.

Lately has been one of these times.

In case you haven't heard, it turns out that a large amount of tomatoes had been infected with the deadly salmonella bacteria, and once the tomatoes reach a restaurant, it's impossible to tell whether they're the infected ones or not.

Unless, of course, you're eating at a restaurant that buys their tomatoes locally!

Being able to trace the food you eat to the exact farm from whence it came, somewhere in Southern Colorado, confers many benefits ranging from quality to economics, but none more important than your
health.

So here's an organic, Colorado tomato bloody mary to your health!

Cheers

New digital beginnings

noreply@blogger.com (Sebastian Awatramani) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:07:00 +0000

This is the forth incarnation of the Royal Peacock website in the past 5 years - with the previous three being within the past year.

Seems that I like every site I design for about a week, and then I hate it, but one only has so much creative juice.

However, I really like the new design, and I have a feeling I'll make it past the 7 day mark with ease.

I guess time will tell.