Ben Raskin

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  • Herbert Needs To Ban Fireworks

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    EDITORS NOTE: I know there isn’t an editor for the blog but I didn’t know a proper way of apologizing for this post. I pride myself on not using a lot of profanity on the blog but I figured what the hell and write a little more like I talk. So, with that said, today’s…

  • Perverts and Cryptosporidiosis

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    Keys On Main had our company party on Sunday. It was a drunken affair complete with tubs of beer, bottles of booze and tons of food. Best of all, my boss decided the best way to thank his employees for a job well done is to rent over-sized inflatable waterslides. I am a sucker for…

  • Super Glue Arms

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    The success of any given night behind the bar is not measured in the amount of sales that I ring or the thickness of bills I take home. I gauge any good night at the club on the level of stickiness of my forearms. From flipping the Boston shakers into the air, resting my arms…

  • Zombies and Drywall Dust

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    When I think of Miami, I think of Crockett & Tubbs, cigarette boats, retired New Yorkers, string bikinis and some goofy Will Smith song. Zombie attacks usually don’t even crack into the top ten things I think about the Magic City until last Monday. Two days ago below a highway underpass, a police officer stumbled…

  • Looking Forward To 38

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    I was born 38-years ago today. That’s 13,880 days or 1,982 weeks. Or simply put, a long time ago. Richard Nixon was president, gas cost 42-cents a gallon, segregation was legal nine years earlier and the Godfather Part II won the Academy Award. Hank Aaron tied Babe Ruth’s home run record, Stephen King’s first novel,…