Author: Christopher Pierznik

Christopher Pierznik is the author of 9 books and has contributed to numerous websites on a variety of topics including music, sports, movies, TV, personal finance, and life. He works in corporate finance and lives in northern New Jersey with his family. His dream is to one day be a member of the Wu-Tang Clan.

I’ve Always Rooted for Players Over Teams

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date January 25, 2021
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“Loyalty to any one sports team is pretty hard to justify, because the players are always changing, the team can move to another city. You’re actually rooting for the clothes, when you get right down to it. You are standing and cheering and yelling for your clothes to beat the clothes from another city. Fans will be so in love with a player, but if he goes to another team, they boo him. This is the same human being in a different shirt; they hate him now. Boo! Different shirt! Boo!”
Jerry Seinfeld

I grew up a Michael Jordan superfan. Not just a fan, a superfan. I had his posters and pictures all over my walls, stacks of his Fleer and Skybox cards in my collection, and collected everything I could, from Starting Lineup figures to Wheaties boxes.

Tags Free Agency, John Elway, LeBron James, Michael Jordan, NBA, NFL, Peyton Manning, Sports

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Get the Most Out of Your Books – Be an Active Reader (Video)

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date January 20, 2021
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There’s a YouTube channel called the The Art of Improvement that does those funky illustrated videos to add a visual to written text.

Back in 2019, they asked if they could do the same for my essay “Get the Most Out of Your Books – Be an Active Reader.” I, of course, enthusiastically said yes! It’s a piece of which I’m quite proud, so to have someone not only appreciate it, but build on it in this way is very cool.

Tags Active Reading, Books, Learning, Reading, Videos, YouTube

Writing

My Best Writing of 2020

Everyone knows 2020 was not a typical year. In fact, it was probably the weirdest and most stressful twelve months most of us have ever experienced.

Some of the items I wrote this year were in direct response to what was happening in the world – both in macro and the micro sense – while others could’ve been published any other time.

The biggest change to my writing routine was my output – or lack thereof.

Tags Batman, Best of, Best of 2020, Business, Business School, Career, Children, Fatherhood, Film, Grad School, Hip-Hop, LeBron James, Life, Rap, Sports, Wu-Tang Clan

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“The Booksellers”: A Documentary for Bibliophiles and Collectors

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date November 30, 2020
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“The relationship of the individual to the book is very much like a love affair.”

Anyone that has studied or researched the finer points of books, particularly rare books, knows that it is a more complicated and layered world than most would imagine.

How do you identify a first edition? What makes a book rare? What is an “antiquarian” book? What makes a book valuable? And who are these people that dedicate their lives to answering such questions?

Tags Bibliophiles, Books, Collecting, Documentary, Reading

Life

I Love Grey Skies

“When autumn winds have stolen summer’s last kiss I will find you again in my dreams; over and over past thousands of Thursdays, until I can meet you under grey skies and flaming trees.”
Nicole Lyons

As the calendar pages turn and summer begins to loosen its grip on the world, many people become a bit despondent and lament the end of the long, warm days of July and August as they are replaced by the extended darkness of autumn and winter evenings.

I, however, love the shorter days of fall.

Tags Autumn, Fall, Life, Nature, Seasons

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A Moment for Women of Color – Including My Daughters

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date November 7, 2020
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Amid all of the reactions and gifs and videos on social medial today, it was a single tweet of thirteen words from a man and writer that I respect that struck me the hardest.

Tags America, Daughters, History, Inspiration, Life, People of Color

Life Love

A Full Life Lost

“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world.”
– Henry David Thoreau

Today would have been my best friend’s 40th birthday.

It should have been.

Tags Best Friend, BFF, Death, Friendship, Happiness, Loss, Regret, Sadness