Ben Raskin

Category: Utah

  • Thirteen Is The New B

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    Happy New Year’s, y’all. I want to wish everyone a very happy 2013. 2013. 13 is not just a great number, it is my lucky number. It’s the day in March that my father was born and one of the few squares on a roulette table that always gets a chip. It is the number…

  • Notes From The Pie Hole

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    What’s the best way to celebrate a tough night at work? How about a couple of slices of pizza from The Pie Hole? After pouring drinks for a bunch of gorillas and wannabe flappers, I needed sanctuary after my evening. I was spent. The mental toughness to stare down knuckle-draggers and prostitutes in the making…

  • Lifting the NBA Boycott

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    I’ve never honored a boycott before. In every self-righteous rant about the evils of Taco Bell and Walmart and vowing never to step foot into one of these death-dealers again, I’ve have quickly found myself eating a MexiMelt while walking the aisles of Sam Walton’s joint. It’s tough. For every time I’ve swore off Coors…

  • The Endorsement

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    Stonewash was my only option. I was living on 100 South in the Ellis Building, in the middle of a nasty and public break-up and without a car. There wasn’t a laundry machine in the apartment complex and I needed a place to wash my clothes. Hauling a month of dirty laundry in a duffle…

  • Leaving Las Vegas (Part Three)

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    The sun was breaking through the desert sky when I started putting away my tools. For the last eight hours, I was alone in the C Terminal at McCarran Airport with two other electricians. We were installing new fire alarms and strobe lights along the walls and into the ceiling. The airport was a ghost…