In Boozo Veritas
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In Boozo Veritas #36: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
In Boozo Veritas #36 by Teege Braune The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám It is a shame that no one can talk about Edward FitzGerald’s best selling nineteenth century poem The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám without weighing in on the famous controversy surrounding the former’s admittedly un-literal translation of the Persian poets original quatrains. The never ending… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #34: Before the Tortoise Dons his Raincoat
In Boozo Veritas #34 by Teege Braune Before the Tortoise Dons his Raincoat: Preliminary Thoughts on an as of Yet Unwritten Piece of Music In the middle of my freshman year of college I met a shy young man named Nat Evans with whom I began a friendship after I wrote this haiku by Shiki on… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #33: St. Patrick’s Day
In Boozo Veritas #33 by Teege Braune St. Patrick’s Day If you are the kind of person who celebrates holidays by listening to podcasts, you’ve no doubt already enjoyed The Drunken Odyssey’s drinking roundtable discussion recorded especially for St. Patrick’s Day. Somewhere among the odd off topic asides and the sounds of clinking glasses I share… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #31: Just a Dab Will Do Ya
In Boozo Veritas #31 by Teege Braune Just a Dab Will Do Ya What would On the Road be if Jack Kerouac had never met the philandering, bisexual, petty thug madman Neal Cassady? The story of Sal Paradise, a drifting, directionless writer who wanders back and forth across the United States not getting into adventures. Let’s… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #30: In Tobacco Veritas
In Boozo Veritas #30 by Teege Braune In Tobacco Veritas Like many children, my elementary school public education was peppered with fear-based demonizations of multifarious social evils. The DARE program taught us that there are only slight differences between marijuana, cocaine, and heroin, and while the legal status of alcohol and tobacco made these vices more… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #29: Writers in the Festival Mode
In Boozo Veritas #29 Writers in the Festival Mode I am honored to welcome the brilliant and amazing poet Susan Lilley as guest blogger for this week’s In Boozo Veritas. While I’m braving the ice and snow up north in Indiana, she is down south in Key West no doubt having a remarkably different experience.… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #27: Some Velvet Morning
In Boozo Veritas #27 by Teege Braune Some Velvet Morning In the months after I first heard “Some Velvet Morning” I listened to the Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra duet easily hundreds of times. Unquestionably psychedelic in nature while existing firmly outside of the genre of rock ‘n roll, the song is simultaneously timeless and an… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #26: An Open Letter To Misogynist Bloggers
In Boozo Veritas #26 by Teege Braune An Open Letter To Misogynist Bloggers Thanks to the internet everybody now has the opportunity to share their opinion about everything. Most of the time I use this technology to talk about drinking and literature. These are subjects I enjoy and perhaps, once in awhile, I can write something… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas # 24: There’s a Space for Us
In Boozo Veritas #24 by Teege Braune There’s a Space for Us Located above Anthony’s Pizza on Colonial Drive, The Space is an aptly named community arts center that has recently filled a local niche as venue to some of the most experimental, underground, and exciting events to take place in Orlando in the last six… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #23: Widening Gyres
In Boozo Veritas #23 by Teege Braune Widening Gyres Awaken to a New Dawn Who among us has never woken on January first to the rising sun of a new year only to bury their throbbing head under the pillow? Here we are at the start of a fresh beginning, new possibilities, another shot at becoming… Continue reading
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