Ben Raskin

Category: Holidays

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • What Do These Beads Get Me Anyhow?

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    Every Tuesday is a Fat Tuesday for me. Leave it to a bunch of dirty swamp dwellers to bastardize a Catholic holiday. Mardi Gras is in full-swing across the nation and will be celebrated at the club this Saturday night. I was lucky enough to check out the full brass band practice on Wednesday and…

  • 2011: A Christmas Story

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    The Nativity of Jesus is a relatively simple story. A carpenter and his pregnant wife wander through the hillsides of Bethlehem looking for refuge through the night. Stopping at various inns, they are denied shelter until a kindly shopkeeper allows them to sleep in his stables. During the night, the woman gives birth to a…