Author Bio

by the Author Himself

 
 

Mike Quinn is one of the more successful television reviewers to break into the business through the Internet. He started in the middle of 1998 with episode reviews for the popular animated program, Daria, under the trademarks Mike's Initial Reaction Review and then Mike's Delayed Reaction Review. His reviews were (and still are) popular with the Daria fan community but he was virtually unknown outside of that forum. That all changed late in 2000, when he was named an associate television editor for the new on-line entertainment magazine, Entertainment Hourly (which holds the Guinness record for longest slogan for a web site: "Entertainment Hourly, the latest entertainment news, every hour. Except on Sundays and late Friday night is tough. There are also stretches of Tuesday and Wednesday where no one is even at the office"), where he contributes occasionally (but not too often). Mike works a variety of, relatively high profile, part time jobs, commenting that he "doesn't have the attention span or the energy for full time anything." Despite these drawbacks, he keeps very busy. In a span of time from September 2000 to June 2001, Mike earned a master's degree in microwave theory, became the youngest person to officiate an NFL game, won the Olympic decathlon and unsuccessfully ran for mayor of his home town of Drexel Hill, PA (his bid was unsuccessful because Drexel Hill doesn't have a mayor and it wasn't an election year). When asked about all of this, all he could say was that he was a "jackass of all trades, master of none." It's still not clear if that was a joke.