Jon Finkel

I regret to inform you that we were robbed of a surefire legendary buddy cop movie series starring Sylvester Stallone and Billy Dee Williams. How the hell did that happen?... Read More

We’ve moved a bunch of times and occasionally when I need something in the garage I’ll find myself fishing through an old box of stuff that my parents sent me... Read More

If you haven’t read Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose about D-Day make it the next book on your list. I could write 2,000 words on why it belongs... Read More

I love reading biographies of accomplished, interesting and brilliant people and one of my favorite personal pastimes is to jot down whenever I come across what I call ‘swimming geniuses’.... Read More

I’m fourteen-years-old and I’m making my fifteenth and final mix tape of the year on my JVC dual-cassette, ‘Super-Bass Horn’ boom box with metallic gray trim, mustard lettering and the... Read More

Welcome to another Finkel de Mayo… Let’s begin… Finkus Maximus. Having lived my life as a Finkel, I can tell you there is no better nickname than Finkus Maximus. It... Read More

I re-watched Warrior this weekend after I saw that it popped up on Amazon Prime. I caught it in the theater back when it came out in 2011 and I... Read More

The third night our puppy was home with us I slept on the kitchen floor next to his crate. He was whimpering. He had a stomach bug. He couldn’t sleep.... Read More

Steven Spielberg has decided he is no longer going to direct Indiana Jones 5, which makes the weird Kingdom of the Crystal Skull his personal “last crusade” with the beloved... Read More

We all remember the most famous non-Michael Jordan moment of Phil Jackson’s tenure as coach of the Chicago Bulls. It happened during the 1994 NBA Playoffs when Scottie Pippen refused... Read More