Ben Raskin

Author: Ben Raskin

  • The Gluttonous Pyramid

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    They come in all shapes and sizes, from around the country and the globe. There are youngsters just out of high school to senior citizens trying to enjoy the twilight of their lives. Destination? Utah. Their business? Multi-level marketing. Pyramid schemes and somehow they always make it to my club. In the plus/negative list of…

  • The End is Nigh

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    They clear pine floors are 95-year old. Soft wood cut into milled 4-inch widths laid east to west throughout the top of the house. Chipped, stripped and beaten to the point where gravity and the floor joists have decided determined their current state. Hidden under cheap carpet for a period of time, their real story has been…

  • Getting The Hogs In The Pen

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    I am going to be double-downing my efforts to write a decent blog. I took most of the summer off and am looking forward to babbling into the keyboard in the upcoming months. More to come. Thanks for being a mensch.

  • Dominic Raiola is a Flathead Screwdriver

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    Call it the causality of working Thursdays for the last 13-years. That’s what I think every time I watch an episode of Seinfeld. Working Thursdays behind a bar means there is very little time for must see TV. I have always enjoyed working Thursday nights because most folks treat it as the gateway to the…

  • The Shower Beer

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    We called it the four corners room because it has four corners—four corners and six doors. It is the space in the house between the bedroom, Erin’s office, the bathroom and the kitchen. It is exactly 6-feet long by 5-feet with two small closets. It’s the kind of room that we walk through 200 times…