Author: Ben Raskin

I meant it as a joke. I never thought he would think I was serious. I guess when you’re sweating through your clothes in a rage, staring past me into the street at the guy who harassed your drunken girlfriend all night makes anything I say like an invitation to beat the living daylights out…

I woke up on the morning of September 11, 2001 filled with apprehension. I didn’t have any knowledge of the looming terrorist attacks against the World Trade Towers, the Pentagon or United Flight 93’s final destination. I didn’t have any clue how my pre-9/11 life would be different from my post-9/11 life nor would I…

I wanted to write a blog about the last two weeks at Keys On Main. There has been fights, nursing conventions, incredible tips, huge douche-bags, a man hog-tied in the back of a squadie after getting pepper sprayed and Westminster College kicking my butt. Unfortunately, real life has gotten in the way. For the last…

The first time I poured a drink in a bar I was 16 years old. I was working as a barback and dishwasher at a crummy little strip-mall bar in North Las Vegas named Gator’s. It was owned by my next door neighbor and managed by her daughter. It was a blue collar bar frequented by…

Hiberniores Hibernis ipsis translated from Latin means “More Irish than the Irish.” It was labelled upon immigrants to Ireland after the Norman Invasion to Ireland between 1168-72 who absorbed into the Gaelic culture quickly and claimed Irish heritiege. They adopted the Irish language, culture, dress and lifestyle quickly and were slapped with that fancy Latin expression in…