bridge to absinthinea

saturday night was the club treasurer's 50th bday(gert:pictured below sitting), he threw a big dinner and party. it was cool. some great food(full seafood spread, i wasn't sure half the time what i was eating), wine(aint no canadian wine but it did the trick), desserts. they did some singing and stuff although it sounded more like a drone chant. the imports had a game the next day so we couldn't really get loose and enjoy the night. we left about 10:30 before it started to get loose. he's a guy of few words but a real straight forward kinda guy. they grilled him a bit but most of it was in danish so to me it sounded like this: gert, danish danish danish danish(laughter) danish danish lemvig basket danish danish skol danish gert skol(laughter). it was an older crowd and everyone was pretty dressed up cept me and corrie, neither of us really have any dress clothes over here, tough to roll in jeans when everyone is rockin suits.

superbowl was apres our game on sunday. we had endre and aggie, soren, mike and ivo over at the crib to watch it. it started at midnight out here so it was a late start. it wasn't the packing house that is for sure. we pulled the game off the net and ran a wire to our tv from the laptop and it worked out ok. ran a lil superbowl pool.... money mike lived up to the hype and took home the prize. before the game we were drinking, watching some ball and the pregame show. its funny watching the europeans react to american progamming. soren was like "if i lived in the states i would get so fat cuz all i would do would be to watch commercials and eat fast food". endre kept cursing the fox sports robot and their graphics like "why with this robot, i don't understand". and really what answer was i going to give?
so mike is from esbjerg, south, near the german border. he came through with a bottle of absinthe(aka the green fairy). you can't buy it here in denmark i guess. the last time i had that was in leeds with paul and thought it was sour puss. i wasn't about to make the same mistake twice. that stuff is about 70% alcohol 140%proof.... aint no joke. they say it made van gogh lose his mind and all that nonsense. its supposed to be a hallucinogen but thats all lore and hype(although i did think i was seeing things when i saw the final score). its a strong ass drink though, especially when we started drinking it straight shots. there were no absinthe spoons, sugar and water at this table. after you get it in, it morphs into about 3-4 different sensations over about 7 seconds. the last few seconds maybe not the one you wanna remember as you reach for a chaser.



as for the actual game.... i lost money on both continents. patriots couldn't stop the pass rush, giants caught some miracles... it happens. those two teams play 10 times the patriots win eight. first time i have seen belicheck not come up with answers. still a pretty sick season though. as happy as i was to see peyton lose earlier, to have his retarded brother win was almost as bad.