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Phifer was the 2004 winner of the Celebrity Poker Showdown Championship, defeating Neil Patrick Harris during the fourth season. Phifer plays on the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home games for the Love Our Children USA charity. Phifer is chairman of the board of trustees of The Vine Group USA. a non-profit organization established in 2000 to provide educational resources to universities in Africa. He has signed up with Full Tilt Poker. He has his own well on the poker forum 2+2
Phifer is an owner of six Athlete's Foot athletic shoe store franchises in California.
In January 2011 Mekhi Phifer launched Third Reel Films The stated mission of the company is to provide an environment for filmmakers to showcase their work to entertainment representatives, acquisition executives and other key industry professionals.
In May 2012, Kanye West rapped, in his "I Don't Like Remix", "I was in too deep like Mekhi Phifer". Kanye West incorrectly references Mekhi Phifer to the film In Too Deep. Mekhi Phifer was not featured in the film, the film starred Omar Epps; however, Kanye West was not referencing, incorrectly or otherwise, Mekhi Phifer in the movie In Too Deep, he was referring to the movie Paid in Full. In Paid in Full Mekhi Phifer was deeply involved in the drug game. He was also mentioned in Eminem's song Lose Yourself.
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“Both gossip and joking are intrinsically valuable activities. Both are essentially social activities that strengthen interpersonal bonds—we do not tell jokes and gossip to ourselves. As popular activities that evade social restrictions, they often refer to topics that are inaccessible to serious public discussion. Gossip and joking often appear together: when we gossip we usually tell jokes and when we are joking we often gossip as well.”
—Aaron Ben-Ze’Ev, Israeli philosopher. “The Vindication of Gossip,” Good Gossip, University Press of Kansas (1994)
“I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)