Initiation

Hello, Internet. It's been a long time. I think to celebrate our reunion, I will direct visitors to a site relevant to the title of this page. It seems, dear friends, that absinthe is returning to the United States, using old, old recipes that are well within the legal limits for thujone, which is the actual chemical in absinthe that has led to its mystification and subsequent banning. Truth be told, most of thujone's hallucinogenic properties are the result of political hype generated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The same fervor eventually led to Prohibition.
You may find articles on Lucid at the L'Absinthe Rend Fou, a blog dedicated entirely to absinthe, here. You may find Lucid's web site here.
While this post is certainly in keeping with the title of the blog, it may well be one of few. Hopefully, this space will become dedicated to the arts, particularly music. I am a man who looks for beauty in unexpected places, and I frequently find it, by virtue of keeping my eyes and ears open. Music from classical to baroque on through classic rock and up to the latest advances in indie and post-hip-hop pop music should be covered here; I try to keep my tastes as wide and my mind as open as possible.
Hopefully, this space will also delve into the theatre, cinema, the culinary arts, and literature. Some friends of mine are starting a joint project dedicated principally to writing, but also to reviewing science fiction and fantasy media, and they claim that I am one of the more science-fiction-literate people that they know, so I can hopefully fill that role over there, and some of that will find its way over here. Look for discussions concerning Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and Philip K. Dick, in particular.
I won't be the pretentious, snarky personality that I want to be when faced with the promise of relative anonymity. It's fun, to be sure, but Heaven knows that there's already enough pretentious snark on the Internet.
Hopefully, I will eventually find a distinct niche to fill, similar to The Comics Curmudgeon, a perennial favourite of mine which has a very distinct purpose and fulfills it very well.
As a final word, Internet, I shall hopefully come up with a reunion present, something that I know that you've been wanting for a long, long time.