Guest Writer: John T. O'Neal
This is a third in a series of guest writers at The Bohemian Capitalist.
John T. O'Neal is a writer from Griffin, GA.
No. 161 - A Drifter in the Republic: Honky-Tonk Nights and the Last Days of Old Austin
963 Words. 4 Minute Read.
I got home last night at two in the morning. I was out with a true Texan and a German couple at the Broken Spoke—a honky-tonk in Austin where the country music is real. None of that post-’90s Nashville crap that passes for country on the radio.
No. 160 - The Life of a (Reformed) Wild Peach Orchard Boar
937 Words. 4 Minute Read.
There isn’t a six-pack in the fridge or a bottle of Dickel in the freezer. I’m doing my best. I’m no saint, but I ain’t the son of a gun I used to be.
No. 159 - How Long Would It Take to Read the Western Canon?
689 Words. 3 Minute Read.
I managed to get through my teen years without reading The Great Gatsby. Shocker—I know. Every red-blooded American is expected to have read this classic somewhere between Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird, but, alas, I never took part in this literary rite of passage.
No. 158 - Vignette 2: The Dinner
1,429 Words. 6 Minute Read. Part 2 of 2.
This is a story about a dinner in SoHo, NYC, in the spring of 1972, with Graydon Carter of Vanity Fair, writer Fran Lebowitz, film producer Robert Evans, founding member of the Grateful Dead Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, and writer Hunter S. Thompson. The story is fictional but historically accurate.