Ben Raskin

Author: Ben Raskin

  • The Endorsement

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    Stonewash was my only option. I was living on 100 South in the Ellis Building, in the middle of a nasty and public break-up and without a car. There wasn’t a laundry machine in the apartment complex and I needed a place to wash my clothes. Hauling a month of dirty laundry in a duffle…

  • Paging Dr. Loomis

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    The best Halloween movie of all time is aptly named Halloween. Granted, there are far scarier films than the world’s introduction to John Carpenter’s Michael Myers but those movies fall outside of the All Hallows’ Evening. Nightmare on Elm Street, The Exorcist, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Shining, Dawn of the Dead and Alien pack…

  • It Comes In Threes

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    My rule of thumb when picking up a woman at a convention in a strange town is to keep it cool. Limit the talk of my wife back home in Atlanta, minimize the amount of chitchat about my kids and mortgage and don’t focus too much on the unspeakable thing I would like to do…

  • Leaving Las Vegas (Part Three)

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    The sun was breaking through the desert sky when I started putting away my tools. For the last eight hours, I was alone in the C Terminal at McCarran Airport with two other electricians. We were installing new fire alarms and strobe lights along the walls and into the ceiling. The airport was a ghost…

  • The Fourth Best Option

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    I’ve sustained substantial testicular damage from bartending at Keys On Main. It has been a chronic injury. It is not the result of taking cocktail waitress into the liquor closet or deflowering customers into the back office. It happens when I pour a draft beer. You’re first response should be what my doctor said, “Well,…