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 that is basically junk from my childhood that they no longer wanted to keep in their garage. 99% of it is worthless. But oh man, […]
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Swimming Geniuses
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 […]
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. […]