On the eleventh day of Gheorghemas, Big Gheorghe gave to me:
Eleven Months of Everything
Requiem for a 10-Year Old Friend and a Historic Road House
Nine college coaching vacancies*
Eight Films Explaining
Five (Green and) Golden Things
Four songs by “the Chairman of the Board” on his birthday
Three Beauties
Two Types of Stories
A Bald Guy with two Pupp-ies
Seven Books for Reading
Six random time-wasting recommendations
Requiem for a 10-Year Old Friend and a Historic Road House
Nine college coaching vacancies*
Eight Films Explaining
Five (Green and) Golden Things
Four songs by “the Chairman of the Board” on his birthday
Three Beauties
Two Types of Stories
A Bald Guy with two Pupp-ies
Seven Books for Reading
Six random time-wasting recommendations
We are nothing here if not cutting edge, and this year's look back at a calendar's worth of Gheorghiness is no exception. In this age of new technological marvels, we thought it only appropriate that we use ChatGPT to help us recap the year. Presenting to you GHEORGHE: THE BLOG — WRAPPED.
I do have a bone to pick with the technology, though. This shit is supposed to make things easier and more efficient, but I just spent an hour or so just putting together the opening slides and I haven't even started with the recapping of the posts. Efficiency, my ass.
Fortunately, we only wrote 175 posts this year (our fewest since the 2006's wandering through the blog desert), so the task of reviewing and curating them was a bit lighter than in years past. On with the show, this is it.
January
In what can only be described as an upset, the first post of the year came from Whitney. It was a Fugazi reference, which is always welcomes.
An then, even more miraculously, TR came back!
I spilled a bunch of words and images on my trip to Florence with my wife a good friends.
Some things never change. Seems I made the same Muppet Show reference in last year's 11th Day of Gheorghemas as I did above.
The Media Grump dropped the first of many thoughtful critiques.
Marls tried to make 69 happen.
Someone tried to sabotage zman's pride and joy!
OBX Dave reviewed Ned Blackhawk's book. Coincidentally, Ned Blackhawk makes an appearance in Ken Burns' latest, the doc about the American Revolution.
The 12th Day of Gheorghemas appeared on the final day of the month. And like many of January's posts, it was a doozy.
February
Dave decided 12 days weren't enough, and gave us our first-ever 13th day which doubled as our initial AI-related post of the year.
Whitney shared the news of the administration's forthcoming Excremental Orders.
Our Super Bowl coverage included a story about predatory priests from New Orleans.
zman remained unimpressed with Ivy League attorneys.
Here's a sentence I wrote about the Kennedy Center: "As with everything that chairman touches, I expect the Kennedy Center to devolve into a celebration of the gauche, a debauched shell of her former elegant self. I'll miss her." Hot damn, but when a motherfucker is prescient, a motherfucker is prescient.
We staffed the Shadow Cabinet. Shame the Dems still haven't.
March
In which OBX Dave calls Jeff Bezos an "elfin delivery magnate and newspaper dilettante".
A collection of birthday poems about Dave and Dr. Seuss. A very Gheorghie endeavor.
Welsh women love Americans. Me, in particular.
April
zman should update this post, entitled "Trump is Fucking Up", because it's even more true now than it was then.
I will be very happy when the day comes that we don't write about Stephen Miller ever again.
The heart of OBX Dave, still ticking.
May
Your Tribe, soon to be Patriots.
"Lobotomized David Mamet" only one of the many ways OBX Dave described Trump's interactions with the media this year.
Firming up our status as one of the internet's leading commentators on gay bar happenings.
June
Local legends, OBX version.
OBX Dave enters the political fray. I'd vote for him.
Fashion is Dumb...NBA Draft Edition
July
Typical summer doldrums for the Gheorghies - didn't get to a post that was much more than filler until zman got all righteous about Jeff Flake and Thom Tillis.
He followed it up with some more zDaughter art content.
Some shenanigans in the NLFPA, and OBX Dave was on it.
Part of the reason the output was light was the fact that COVID got me.
August
Gheorghasbord, featuring Ichiro!
Food is Dumb, featuring a Heinz Ketchup smoothie.
Which Danimal sampled for science!
International Court of Justice content, as is our wont.
We previewed the Women's Rugby World Cup. Mr. KQ had the result spot on.
Seen a Million Faces. Rocked some of them.
September
Our lightest month since April 2023 (and we all know what was going down then, even if we don't talk about it). Could probably just link to everything. But we'll pare it down, starting with big music news from Michael Stipe.
Big couple months for crazy-ass foodstuffs. In this case, pizza vodka. Which Marls procured and we sampled for the sake of the public.
zman worked out for 365 consecutive days. Fucking stud.
OBX Dave took on the Charlie Kirk discourse. It was predictably enraging, because it was accurate.
We catalogued the dorks, dipshits, and losers running our country. Also enraging. Also accurate.
October
New feature dropped: Les Coole's remixing classic yet too-long records into a single LP. Starting with George Harrison's All Things Must Pass.
Professor G. Truck accepted Les Coole's challenge.
The Dooglet and his mates can make the rock and roll.
A professional scribe previewed the Wrens' season. So far, so good.
Yin.
November
A prescription for what ails Colorado football. G:TB has multivariate expertise.
Yang.
And there you have it, friends. Another tour around a sun that's gotta be shaking her head at the state of our affairs. But we're still here, we're still weird, and we're still Gheorghe Gang. Good enough place to start as far as I'm concerned.
Love y'all.
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What a retrospective. I wonder if any amps go to twelve?
ReplyDeleteTribe is sneaking up on 69 in the NET.
ReplyDelete“You didn’t come for Polish.” I guess you came for Hungarian?
ReplyDeletetribe v stony brook at 1:00, looking for 69
ReplyDeleteI did my periodic check in of the AM radio dial today. Substitute host for clay and buck is practically orgasmic as he reads a list of campaign promises made good. Sounds like quite a year! In ten minutes I heard about every right wing catch phrase you can imagine, delivered in a way that you knew he was sticking to the provided script
ReplyDeleteImpressive aggregation as usual, rob. I have zero experience with ChatGPT, so our future Skynet overlords' summation is ... well, I'm not quite sure what to think.
ReplyDeleteI am not a fan of AI, but I did give in and ask it to generate some boilerplate content for me to modify and send to a customer's risk assessment firm today.
ReplyDeleteI feel kinda dirty, but glad that it's done and the daily reminder emails can cease.
tribe shakes off a sluggish first half to outscore stony brook, 42-26, in the second half and start the season 2-0 in league play. these dudes are dangerously close to giving me hope.
ReplyDeleteSaw Marty Supreme with the fam this afternoon. Really good, with plenty of hot table tennis action.
ReplyDeleteHow was Rootsy Otter’s Jug Band New Year’s Eve?
ReplyDeletehappy new year! great wrapped, rob-- impressive.
ReplyDeletewife and i are headed to see "marty supreme" today-- the table tennis better look realistic, or i'm walking out.
Buckle in professor, plenty of good action for you.
ReplyDeleteWe stayed in last night. I ceded the party to the river bottom gang.
Sounds like a nightmare.
ReplyDeleteWe went to a friends house last night for a low key NYE. Made the smart decision and took an uber home. My daughter spent the night at the house we were at because that’s her best friend’s family. So, this morning I rode her new e-bike to the house so I could get my car. And now I want an e-bike.
ReplyDeletemarty supreme is action-packed and highly entertaining, with lots of safdie-style bad decisions. and the table tennis looks great!
ReplyDeleteagainst all odds, i now have four handguns in my home. fortunately, none are loaded.
ReplyDeleteThat was a fun game.
ReplyDeleteAgree. Don't know if mentioned in broadcast (sound muted) but one crazy part is that LSU in addition to paying Kiffin ridiculous money agreed to foot bonuses from Ole Miss playoff run. 150k for making playoff, 250k for quarterfinal, 500k for semifinal.
ReplyDeleteMy understanding is that the bonuses are not cumulative and that he gets the amount for the furthest round OM makes. Still ridiculous that he is getting bonused for wins by a team he abandoned.
ReplyDeleteWatched the Rose Bowl with a few bama fans last night. Given the level of the beat down, most were in favor of firing Deboer other than the fact that the top coaches were taken at this point. I noted that for the right price, Kiffin might move. They seemed open to this idea. Good Lord, college football is broken.
Fair point about Kiffin bonus, Tim. As for Bama and its suddenly disgruntled fan base, it highlights the notion that Saban spoiled them beyond reason and confirms the bromide that you don't want to be the guy who replaces The Guy; better to be the guy who replaces the guy who replaced The Guy.
ReplyDeleteJerrod Mayo and Mike Vrabel agree.
ReplyDeletesome news: i will be headed out to purchase a new washing machine in a few minutes. not by choice. happy new year!
ReplyDeleteDeboer is done. If not tomorrow, eventually. Never, ever be the guy who follows the guy.
ReplyDeleteThe Kiffin bonus shit is hilarious. So very CFB in 2026.
About to batten the hatches as my 13 year old daughter has 7 friends over for the night.
is buying a new washing machine ever by choice? like: these clothes are clean but they could be cleaner? sorry for your loss, hope the install goes well!
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