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Groundhog’s Day 2012
I know this is a controversial pick but my favorite movie about groundhogs is Groundhog’s Day. It stars Andie MacDowell and Bill Murray and a rodent of some sort named Chris Elliot. It’s about a weatherman who relives the same day over and over again in Punxsutawney while covering whether or not the groundhog sees…
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Love and Finland
What do we know about the Finland? Better yet, what don’t we know about Finland? I assume they are a hunter/gather culture that eats too many pickled herring and love wearing sweaters. They are probably feel just as good on a pair of skis as riding a reindeer from yurt-to-yurt throughout their frozen socialist paradise.…
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New Year’s Resolutions
For as long as I can remember, I have only had one New Year’s resolution: become a better speller. After re-reading most of my columns this last year, I think I am going to expand this resolution to improve my grammar, punctuation and style. This has probably been the busiest and most productive year since…
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John McClane v. The Santa Pub Crawl
Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho! My favorite Christmas movie of all time is Die Hard. It’s a heart wrenching tale of lost love reconnecting in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. Detective John McClane flies from New York City to hook up with his estranged wife who coincidently looks old enough to…
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The 3-Second Martini
It takes 119.5 seconds to pour a perfect pint of Guinness. That is almost two minutes. In an Irish pub that is the blink of an eye. In a dueling piano bar that is a millennium. The only time I ever lost my cool at Keys On Main was the very first night I worked…
Ben Raskin 