Gheorghe: The Blog

Entire industries and legions of smart people are dedicated to attraction and extraction – that is, drawing our attention, and money from ou...

There are artists who grow to resent the success of their greatest songs and how they come to overshadow a broader catalogue. I remember in ...

My summer 2023 live music plan just took a hit, and not in the good way. An early August date to go see Social Distortion at the Norva here ...

Earlier this week, my man Whit sent me a link to the very kind of clickbait that makes me stop what I'm doing and immediately jump into....

East Coast bias is real, in large part because time zones and sleep are real. As a recent example, I think one could credibly argue that peo...

Ten days ago, give or take, Whitney challenged one of us to pen a few words on the seismic news of Lionel Messi's agreement with MLS...

Crocs are ubiquitous. At least one of you weirdos owns a pair. I know because I've seen you wear them. Lot of your kids probably do, too...

On the evening of Aug. 11, 1973, in the rec room of an apartment complex at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in New York City’s Bronx, 18-year-old Clive...

It is rare that the NFL, protector of Lord Football, defender of manly American values, waver of the flag, serious of purpose (the purpose b...

New Isbell just dropped, and I can't think of many better ways to spend a Sunday than by digging deep into it.  Rolling Stone calls Wea...

Just scanning the newswire... Lionel Messi to Sign With MLS’s Inter Miami, per Report Wow! I was rooting for him to rejoin Barcelona, only b...

Rarely in the course of human endeavors do circumstances conspire to bring together ideas, people, and causes in a way that so perfectly tic...

Just when you think you've heard every version of this song... you haven't.  Just when you think we've beaten this to death... w...

More zbouillabaisse! 1. Inspiration from rob rob's last post motivated me to post Nina Simone's version of House of the Rising Sun....

I came across this the other day and shared it with a couple of you, but it's too good not to spread further. Trombone Shorty posted thi...

 It was my turn, and I borrowed from Tejus for this one.  My ChatGPT entry was "write a farcical blog post with shirtless Alfonso Riber...

Been a tiring few days for my writing muscles, so I decided to experiment with the future of blogging. I turned this post over to ChatGPT, a...

The unexamined life is not worth living - Socrates, or possibly Thoreau (joke for one) Professor G. Truck's recent two-part podcast ser...

[Editor's Note: This is a long one. Lotta words. Maybe print it out and take it to the crapper with you. And enjoy!] If you're into ...

My quill-brain connection has been mightily fecund of late. Perhaps this is a sign that I should finally get around to getting a job. (If yo...