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’. A swimming genius is exactly what it sounds like: it’s a genius who loves to swim for exercise and has incorporated doing laps either in […]
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The Inside Story of Why I Put Gatorade’s ‘Be Like Mike’ on a Mix Tape Back in ’92
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 ultimate early 90s flex move, a CD player on top with a tiny digital screen that could only display three things: play, pause and skip. […]
Honoring the Legendary Howard Finkel, AKA, Finkus Maximus, AKA, The Fink
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 takes the half-dorky, half-comical nature of the surname Finkel and turns it right around. Unlike Finkel, which rhymes with ‘tinkle’ and slams the ‘ink’ right […]