In Boozo Veritas
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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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In Boozo Veritas #1: The Rum Also Rises
In Boozo Veritas #1 by Teege Braune The Rum Also Rises I had intentions of becoming a writer long before it ever occurred to me to become a drunk. Long before alcohol held the appeal of the forbidden, sips of my parents’ beer, wine, and champagne merely tasted bitter or sickeningly cloying. Written words, were… Continue reading
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