This is a joint, in an old house - it's all in the...

This is a joint, in an old house - it's all in the name, as advertised. Barstools are on screws, to raise or lower yourself, high ceilings with windows set up high in one wall, a loud juke box, multiple double door entries on Bienville and Bourbon, and a bouncer not to be messed with ... and of course there is absinthe, which does provide the warm, almost narcotic buzz that the old literary expats of Paris desired (it is *not* a hallucinogen), but it will cost you: two White Butterflies (I believe that's the name) and a tonic water cost me and my wife $40.00. I did not catch the name of our barkeep, but she was friendly, and she took the time to explain the process of her pour to us. "Rookies" get extremely loud and boisterous, but remember that bouncer?