Our favorite drink was is featured prominently in a show to be shown again on the National Geographic Channel on Saturday.

In between segments about Afican and South American concoctions that mostly make people puke, Taboo: Altered States has a section shot in Paris about absinthe.

WARNING: THIS SHOW CONTAINS CONTENT SOME MAY FIND DISTURBING, SUCH AS FLAMING SUGAR CUBES, COMPARISONS OF ABSINTHE TO MARIJUANA, HASHISH, SPEED AND LSD, SUGGESTIONS THAT ABSINTHE WILL MAKE YOU TRIP BALZ, OR MAKE YOU CUT OFF YOUR EAR AND MURDER YOUR FAMILY.

Well that, or make you feel giddy, more talkative and less inhibited, like - well like OTHER ALCOHIC BEVERAGES!

Hey, if it weren't for newbies or stupid absinthe references in popular culture, we'd have less fun here.

I hope you wrote a letter to the show-people.

I don't have Nat Geo channel, so I can't watch it. I just LIVE it.

I want people to be scared of Absinthe.

It makes me feel so much cooler to be a "rebel".

"Dude, you drink that stuff... I heard it makes you psycho"!

I have friends that thought herbs in vodka tasted great.
I explained the differences,
they still liked it,
fucktards.

Too late.


Edit: That was to Dinky, not PussyHead.

>I hope you wrote a letter to the show-people.

(a modified reprint from feeverte post)

no point in it...

i was with them for a good part of the time...
they don't have any excuse for what they did, they had alot of great shots and interviews.
they were in boveresse for the festival and i got them an interview and tasting of the best, un-buyable la bleu with historian pierre-andre delachaux and they came a half hour late and didn't even bother fliming...they were more interested in filming a clandestine distillation and when no one would do it for them on camera, they staged a fake one in a back room in town... they were even in a tasting room with 3 la bleus (the only one i got to try smelled and tasted like burnt potatoes- beware! ) and around 20 other absinthes, that held marie-claude delahaye and benoit noel at the same time amoungst others who know a bit more about real absinthe and were more interested in watching a german (not markus) set hills on fire and having his girlfriend be the only one who said she liked it...
they were distraught when they left boversesse and pontarlier without finding anyone who would say on camera that absinthe made you tripbalz™...

i was afraid that this was going to happen when they didn't ask me to join them on their paris shoots (which were mostly staged in a goth/biker/grunge bar that amazingly enough has the best selection of absinthes in paris- www.cantada.fr) except when they recreated a psuedo verlaine and rimbaud fighting while drinking absinthe at the art nouveau café zimmer...

they knew absolutely nothing about absinthe, had great stuff handed to them on a silver platter and decided to go for the flaming shot and halucinations because they were told by their bosses not to come back with something 'that loooked like a article for cigar aficionado magazine'...

at least i got a ride back to paris from pontarlier out of the deal...oh, and a t-shirt...

fucking assholes.

Sounds like they were going for the Reefer Madness style.

I'm supprised they didn't try to get someone to do a flaming body shot.

i've heard those are popular at the cuff.

True ,
they were mad
not to refer to Peter.

That's show biz.

Damned sensationalist yellow journalist bastahds.

It all about the ratings.

Mercenary porkers.

Little disappointed, Green Genes, at the disrespect one can show his own. I'm not Kananadian, nor am I from the land down under, Mexico. I am not a willy-toothed Brit, or the willy with a bomb from Ireland. I am not a crazy-partying-allnight-disco Kraut, a drink till you are numb all day long Frenchman, a crazy tomato-throwing bull-running Spaniard, or Italian, Bohemian (Czeckerland, for that matter), Italian, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, or Slovik for that matter.

But I am Ballzish?! And everyone know that a little bit of Ballz? and a lotta storry could last a lifetime. All I am asking, as our fellow friend does, who shows respect an entire continent across the pond, is to give the Ballz a chance to sweat in peace.

I just caught that xit this after noon. I can NOT believe that National Geographic would put out CRAP like that.

If they totally hosed up the absinthe part of the show then who knows how FUBAR the rest of it is.

It's kinda like TV news and the demonization of guns. They lie their asses off about guns and who knows how bad they muck up other stuff. {danratherbiased}

It's sad to see National Geographic stoop to such sensationalism -- especially when offered better information!

National Geographic, and sensationalism...

This is something new?

Did you forget those third world naked natives who used to grace that magazine, in your youth?

I saw it today.
The voiceover for the translation of the crazy French artist was funny.

Do you think that there were women in those tribes wearing nun's habits, and the NG people only showed us the bare-breasted bimbos?

One good thing about the show:

If I ever get to visit Paris, I know what bar I'm going to!

And I know who I'm going to punch in the crotch when I get there.

So a few well-worded and literate letters to the producers and president would be in order. I can't believe (well, yes I can) that a reputable and trusted source like NG had the chance to do a HUGE amount of good for de-mystifying and un-demonizing absinthe and completely blew it. I can forgive the crew if they were under orders to do a particular kind of show, but there's no excuse for the brass to screw up this badly. What morons.

Emily Gersh
Coordinator
Taboo Season III
National Geographic Television and Film
1145 17th Street N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036-4688

Why, thank you.

Does anyone remember the National Geographic documentary entitled, 'Egypt - Secret Chambers Revealed’? All that was missing on that show was Geraldo Rivera and some satanic ritual abuse.

count chocula needs to get his cronies the masons on the case.

i bet those illuminati fuckers could have national geo put out of business or killed or something.



just ask da vinci.

I hope you're talking about that artist who has the "absinthe visions" and not me.

No, not you.
Don't worry.
You'll get your crotch punch at the next LCLF, I suspect.