What's With the Whitneys?

It's been a busy week for the Whitneys.  We had a team conference call yesterday, and whew, there's just a lot going on.

Whitney Houston, still the most famous Whitney among us despite leaving the World o' Whitneys in 2012, was celebrated once again last week on what would have been her 56th birthday. In addition, a Hologram Tour is being planned -- you know, in which you would go to a Whitney Houston concert even though she died seven years before. They say:

In a BASE Hologram production, audiences are not watching a show, they are drawn into an ultra-realistic experience where fantasy becomes reality. More importantly, they are interacting, applauding and enjoying the production together, which is the basis for all communal entertainment.

It's akin to what we are doing at this year's fishing trip with Dave not being able to make it, or when you can't see Rob because of the fairly tall bar at Tortuga's.

The band Whitney, last spotted in the Gheorghie Dome in a 2016 post that included a felchy video, has a follow-up album set to release in two weeks. It's called Forever Turned Around, and it features the lead single below, "Giving Up." The falsetto is still there, and it's the same variety of pleasant sleepop that will put a little spring in your . . . bed so you can get those precious moments of REM (the sleep, not the band).

A. Whitney Brown, last seen blogging politically a couple of years ago, apparently gave that up after the cataclysmic election of 2016. But just last week, he appeared in Austin with Lauren Hough and Shannon McCormick for a public reading of Volume II of the Mueller Report. So there's that.

Eli Whitney, generally regarded as the most important among Team Whitney, reported to the group that he was still dead, as was the modern usage of his cotton gin. Frankly, this member of our unit has been coasting a bit of late and could use some newsworthy action to surround him.

Whitney Cummings, comedienne extraordinaire, has been all over social media the past couple of days.  It seems that sometime recently she accidentally posted a semi-nude picture of herself on Instagram, deleting it quickly but not quickly enough to keep some scoundrels from capturing it and threatening to make it public unless she paid them.  Coolly, she turned the event on its ear by posting the unabridged nipple pic herself. Amusingly, fans and strangers have responded by posting embarrassing and/or nude pics of themselves. And if she engineered this stunt as a promotional tool, then color me impressed. The full pic is here, for you pervs.


Gheorghie Whitney, well he's still here. Thursday is his first day on the 26th Annual Outer Banks Fishing Trip.  Today, meanwhile, is his last day at his current job. After eight years working for a nonprofit serving people with disabilities -- his role being to find and create jobs for people with disabilities -- it's time to move on. The new gig is in workforce development and involves talent development. The "talent" isn't what you think, pervs.  It's a reasonably high-profile position for him, locally speaking, and there may be some resultant absence and/or pseudonymmetry at G:TB ahead. Perhaps not. There will certainly be plenty more 3rd person usage.

Anyway, like I said, it's been a heck of a week in Whitney World.