Teege Braune
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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 #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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