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What America Means To Me
An essay on America by Ben Raskin America is a kick butt country. Not kick butt in the Jean Claude Van-Damme or Jackie Chan sense but a quick punt to the nuts of turkeys who want to screw with our freedom. I’m talking about baseball, apple pie, tanks and Kate Upton or Couric butt kicking. The…
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Wed Nes Day Knight
A rapist in an electric wheelchair. A bohemian starting a revolution vis-a-vie a poorly written manifesto with no money. A table full of Brits with no manners and a belly full of Utah booze. Cheap Russians wanting to know why the dueling piano shows doesn’t have shrimp for their Caesar salad. A rode hard pair…
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Bill Hicks Was A Reader
Bill Hicks was a reader. At least he tells us on one of his standup albums. While sitting alone at a Waffle House in Nashville, eating and reading a book by himself, a waitress making her rounds swing by his table. Noticing he was thumbing through a book, she asks, “What you reading for?” Now,…
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Rooney Speak
There is something very pleasant about falling asleep on an airplane. On those rare moments where I get an aisle seat and nobody sits in the middle, if the air is just chilly enough and I can find that notch just between the seats, I can clunk out. The vibrations on a plane are soothing…
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WordPress Gives Me A Report Card 2012
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…
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