Author: Ben Raskin

I sold The Woodshed on the 2nd of November in 2009. It was a bittersweet day. For almost three years I was running my first bar at the expense of family and friends and I was mostly running the bar into the ground. I might have known how to make a Fuzzy Navel and a…

I was setting up the bar last Thursday afternoon preparing for a busy night. The night before had been busy with a large group of salesmen from McGraw-Hill in the bar. Wednesday night had been a scouting party for Thursday’s evening of debauchery. When you think of McGraw-Hill, you probably think of every textbook you…

I got hit by a car on Tuesday night. More specifically, I drove my bicycle into the backend of a grey Pontiac Sunbird while riding to boxing. I was heading north on 900 East when outside of the Smith’s in Sugarhouse, some guy pulled into the parking lot, cutting me off and sending me ass…

Thanks to the opening of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, my screening of Super 8 on Friday was a ghost town. I drove my 1999 Toyota Tacoma down to Century 16 on 3300 South to catch a rare afternoon movie. I used to love going to the movies but the responsibilities of…

Originally published 14th of July 2011 Do you know what a rattlesnake is? I am not asking about Crotalus atrox, a legless reptile that lives in the Southwest of the United States with a poisonous fangs and a castanet at the end of their tail. I’m asking about a middle-aged woman with too much makeup,…