In Boozo Veritas
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In Boozo Veritas #11: One Night Five Years Ago
In Boozo Veritas #11 by Teege Braune One Night Five Years Ago For Jenn Yesterday was the five year anniversary of Redlight Redlight’s last night in the original location on New England Avenue. The tiny bar was packed with everyone who had fallen in love with it during its three years in the upstairs space that Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas # 10: A Lexicology of Boozing
In Boozo Veritas # 10 by Teege Braune A Lexicology of Boozing Slang terms for drunkenness are as varied and colorful as anything else in the English language. The only actions that come close to warranting as many euphemisms as drinking are just as base and primitive: using the bathroom, fornicating, etc. The behaviors we are Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #9: John Chapman (Ascetic Prophet of American Romanticism)
In Boozo Veritas #9 by Teege Braune John Chapman: Ascetic Prophet of American Romanticism Last week I celebrated the birthday of John Chapman, who history remembers as Johnny Appleseed, by going to Redlight Redlight’s Johnny Appleseed Day! A Celebration of Cider! Among the nearly twenty varieties of cider Redlight Redlight had available on draft and in Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #8: I Was a Teenage Teetotaler
In Boozo Veritas #8 by Teege Braune I Was a Teenage Teetotaler It’s hard to say what about alcohol bothered me so much when I was young. My parents never had unhealthy relationships with it. I never saw them drunk, and they always made it clear that there was nothing wrong with adults drinking in moderation. Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #7: The Green Fairy
In Boozo Veritas #7 by Teege Braune The Green Fairy Ah! the Green Goddess! What is the fascination that makes her so adorable and so terrible?”—Aleister Crowley Absinthe, that exotic emerald green liquid with its secret ingredient Wormwood, a powerful and dangerous psychotropic. Absinthe, scourge of the nineteenth century salon, through whence bohemians became maniacs and Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #6: Staggering Down the Halls of Matriculation
In Boozo Veritas #6 by Teege Braune Staggering Down the Halls of Matriculation The dichotomies between my own straight-laced lifestyle and juvenile obsession with the Beat Generation was not lost on me when I was a young man. Ever eager to give the middle finger to conformity, I wore colorful scarves to high school and read Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #5: Why I love Violence
In Boozo Veritas #5 by Teege Braune Why I Love Violence If you haven’t read Mark Pursell’s Like a Geek God blog post “Dr. Who, An Unarmed Hero,” please do. The article is an homage to “the anti-gun pacifist alien espousing diplomacy and intellectualism” Dr. Who, an odd-duck amongst geek culture heroes and a respite from Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #4: Bacchanalia, Family Style
In Boozo Veritas #4 by Teege Braune Bacchanalia, Family Style for my own semi-feral maenad Jenn Benner “Those who look for filth can find it at the height of noon.” -Euripides, The Bacchae Our contemporary, popular notion of Dionysus as symbol of drunkenness and revelry is a sadly castrated version of the ancient Greek deity. While Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #3: Through the Looking Glass Darkly
In Boozo Veritas #3 by Teege Braune Through the Looking Glass Darkly No single narcotic or hallucinogenic drug mirrors a state of dream sleep better than a thoroughly annihilated blackout drunk. Marihuana with its transitions between anxiety and dopey boredom never creates the kind of mental adventures we experience while unconscious. LSD brings intense and often Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #2: Don’t Bet on the Muse
In Boozo Veritas #2 by Teege Braune Don’t Bet on the Muse This is a literary anecdote that I hope is true despite everything else I’m going say in this post: I once heard that Charles Bukowski’s nightly routine, after he finished another grueling day at the post-office and had a quick bite at his favorite Continue reading
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