Happy Birthday, Michael Flatley!

People of the internet: please join us in wishing our commander-in-chief, the legendary Michael Flatley, a happy birthday today! This isn’t just a birthday. This is a birthday during the 25th anniversary year of his billion-dollar creation: #LordOfTheDance, the commercial flagship of the #IrishDance industry. Michael’s rags-to-riches story is so completely unbelievable that if it were a work of fiction, no one would accept it as plausible: a blue-collar Irish-American construction worker raised in poverty on the wrong side of Chicago, who up until his mid-thirties was just a skinny guy with a weird obsession about an obscure folk dance, became an “overnight“ sensation after decades of backbreaking hard work, unleashing his art form overlaid atop #IrishDancing and creating an entire genre of entertainment -- the Irish dance show -- out of it. *Then,* after he gets fired from his first show (which continues to use his choreography), he risks the most audacious gamble i