Liquorice weekend.
Last Saturday my friend Пафнутий got so sick on Cambas Ouzo that he was forced to lie down.
During a party. In the middle someone else’s floor.
In true Hollywood style, he rasped, “Go on without me…” … He meant to the next party.
Contrary to Hollywood style I obeyed, and walked over to an unfurnished apartment full of total strangers who offered Sambuca. Sambuca is the Italian attempt at anisette. Like most anisettes, it’s usually oversweet and needs to be cut with something a bit stronger than water. Such as coffee. I don’t remember the brand (I’m sure it ends in a vowel… … …) but I do remember spilling some on the floor. I’m really sorry about that.
When I finally got home, I realized my condition. Dreading the next day, and too lazy to wait for water to purify, I drank the last of my frosty half-gallon of root beer.
I picked it up at a convenience store, and apparently the stuff is produced right here, in the White Mountains. It seems that every inn needs a brewery, and every brewery makes a root beer, and every root beer gets reviewed by just about everyone – - – but not every root beer comes in a huge half-gallon glass jug. It wasn’t bad tasting, but it wasn’t medicine either.
{Finally, here was a little bittersweet something about the band Liquorice, but the video was deleted from Youtube, so now it makes no sense.
Just know that it jibed with all of the above, as this was a fully-flushed, themed entry.]
wait- were you in liquorice?
listening cap is one of my favorite records *ever*.
i champion it to whomever will let me bend their ear.
i hear tales of a 2nd liquorice record…a friend even claims to have a bootlegged copy, but he has since moved to the LA thus leaving me high and dry…
although, to be fair, i perhaps could have been a little more pro-active about obtaining a copy…he told me about it in 2002 or so…
{Here was a response referring to Liquorice’s first 7″, the likes of which us geriatrics are wont to do when speaking of the bad ol’ days. (Accidentally deleted). For the record, I preferred the cassettes.}