Mike Tursi was born in Hollis, NY in a hospital that has since been converted into an insane asylum.  He grew up in Flushing, NY and attended P.S. 162, Q in Bayside.  At the tender age of 5, Tursi tackled his first novel, Jaws, by Peter Benchley.  Upon seeing the motion picture based on said novel, a fixation that can only be described as "too much" began on his favorite subject, sharks.  On August 10, 1977, Tursi and his father went to what would be the first of many baseball games, a 3-1 defeat of the New York Mets by the St. Louis Cardinals at Shea Stadium in Flushing (Tom Underwood defeated Jerry Koosman). 

Tursi's junior high school years (that's middle school for you left-coasters) were spent at J.H.S. 158, also in Bayside.  A tough school, but nothing he couldn't handle.  His high school career began at St. Francis

Prepatory in Flushing, but was cut abruptly short after his freshman year when his parents decided to move to California.  After one semester at Moreno Valley High School in Riverside, the family packed up again for Orange County, which at the time was actually a nice place to live.  Tursi graduated from San Clemente High School and has nothing to show for it.  After a brief stint at Point Loma Nazarene College, (now known as Point Loma Nazarene University, thank you very much) he tried his luck in the real world by working one of those damn jobs.  Over the course of ten years, he fixed choo choo trains for San Diego Trolley, sold office furniture at Staple's, cooked pizza for Booster's Sports Grill, did shipping & receiving at CompUSA, cut, fabricated, & installed glass & mirror for Mission Viejo Glass, and even tried to find work in a silver mine just outside Boise, Idaho (nice place, but you don't want to live there...VERY dull).

Any-who, Tursi currently studies Communications (HA!!) at Cal State, San Bernardino where, in all honesty, he doesn't know what the hell he's doing.