Ben Raskin

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  • WordPress Gives Me A Report Card 2012

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    This is very self-serving but I am very appreciative of everyone who read and commented on my blog. In the great scheme of things, I think of myself of a bartender first and a writer second. Thanks to everyone for validating the latter half of my identity. There is nothing more obnoxious than people talking…

  • The Curse of Santa

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    I am pickled. After two days of non-stop boozing pausing only to shovel cheese into my piehole, I am done. I am done eating. I am done drinking. I am done. From the homemade ginger liquor to the margaritas that temporarily gave me the power to speak fluent Portuguese to the whiskey highballs to the…

  • Notes From The Pie Hole

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    What’s the best way to celebrate a tough night at work? How about a couple of slices of pizza from The Pie Hole? After pouring drinks for a bunch of gorillas and wannabe flappers, I needed sanctuary after my evening. I was spent. The mental toughness to stare down knuckle-draggers and prostitutes in the making…

  • Mayan Calandar

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    I am getting ready to go to work. In my basement office, I’m listening to the Fugazi, looking through magazines and a new copy of The Walking Dead that came in the mail. On the surface, things are good. The heat is keeping outside at bay, the dogs are sleeping on their beds just outside…

  • Sandy Hook Elementary

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    I woke up Friday morning with the plan of purchasing a shotgun. I have never been a gun person. Raised in the suburbs of Las Vegas with parents that didn’t own any weapons, I never had any contact with guns with the exception of a Boy Scout excursion. Guns scare me. The sheer power of…