I'm not sure that I'm braking a record, but come Wednesday I will have been at the Crepe Place 3 times in 5 days. First I went to a concert on Saturday that Josh of The Art Museums curated. Curated? I thought the word only applied to the visual arts, but I've since learned that you can curate a concert when you get three bands together for one night/one show, namely: THE GROGGS • THE MANTLES • STIFF LOVE. Josh recommended The Mantles, but I actually thought that louder, faster, sophomoric bands Stiff Love and The Groggs were more fun live. Had a blast. (More on The Art Museums)Yesterday at Joe Stroud's get-together I found out that Joan has turned into a absinthe connoisseur. Today I find out that Crepe Place has been offering/promoting absinthe cocktails for years now, literally. How could I have missed it? Well, maybe because I don't exactly have a weakness for anise and licorice flavors, so the whole absinthe renaissance & euphoria over said spirit having become legal again in the US (long story) have largely passed me by. Until Joan announced today that "TUESDAY is ABSINTHE NIGHT AT THE CREPE PLACE." In capital letters. Yes. Now my curiosity is tickled, at last. Since The Crepe Place offers the New York Times' favorite absinthe, the Swiss Kübler Absinthe Superieure, the weather is simply gorgeous right now (80F=27C), very much entices me to go out, and the Crepe Place is a 5 minute bike ride down the street, I think I will make tomorrow night an absinthe night!
And the next day, being the third Wednesday of the month, the Crepe Place will see us for our traditional Mittwoch Stammtisch, of course. Cheers und Prosit!
