We've heard rumors about the crazy things that absinthe can do, but we had no idea that it was capable of turning mild-mannered burlesque performers into wild, nearly naked absinthe fairies. Last weekend, Le Tourment Vert took over New York City's venerable burlesque life drawing salon Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School ... and from we hear, no one escaped unscathed. Pictures of the madness after the jump.

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· Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School (drsketchy.com)

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