On the 11th Day of Gheorghemas, Big Gheorghe Gave to Me:
11 Months of Gheorgheness
10 (or more) LIV TOUR Factoids
Nine (semi) Bold Predictions for 2023
Eight People and Places In My Neighborhood
Seven books for reading (and one for burning)
Five Good News Stories, courtesy of Shlara
Though you wouldn't know it by the time it's taken me to get the year-ending review of our dipshittery posted, the exercise this year was easier than in recent years. Because we dropped a mere 183 posts, the fewest since 2006. You'd expect, though, that quantity would give way as we age and mature. Keep on expectin', friends.
On with it, then, another year of camaraderie, ephemera, semi-serious posts, and semi-literate ones. One of these days, our very own Chinese Democracy will make it to the internet, as Marls and zman inform me that they're thisclose to finishing their magnum opus.
January
The first post of 2022? Day Ten of Gheorghemas 2021, courtesy of Danimal.
Later, in a post about a late, lamented amusement park, we describe the Gheorghian calendar as "influenced as it always is by a combination of lunar position, grain harvest, and Romanian weather". So this season's version is par for the course.
OBX Dave tried to teach us how to sleep.
Zman, unions, monkeys, part one.
Zman, unions, monkeys, the sequel.
February
Zman, unions, monkeys, the Pip.
Bite me, Randy Newman: the Earl Boykins episode.
OBX Dave, UBI. I say we need UBOBXD.
Wrenball, meh. Could be worse - we could be Gheorghetown fans.
And lo, the Twelfth Day of Gheorgemas.
March
Fashion is Dumb makes a (spectacular) return.
Mike Tyson's ear-shaped edibles!
Mark helped us adopt a college basketball player.
OBX Dave gives America more credit than America deserves, I fear.
April
Any time Whitney writes about Mott the Hoople, well, you know.
Danimal comes through with the first-ever G:TB post featuring a photo from a lavatory.
We learned a LOT about the 757.
May
My baffling, wondrous first-born child.
Elegy for a Dive, Weeping Radish Version
June
OBX Dave's ticker gave me a reason to post Don Johnson's 'Heartbeat' video!
zman bought the zcar he should drive!
Kate Bush, runnin' back up that hill.
July
I got back on the St. Croix River. Glorious.
We Fucking Love (the) Cocaine (Bear Movie)
Stellar environmentally-themed Gheorgasbord
August
Mayhugh Guestie! Complete with the Teej's awful formatting.
My brother, my long-lost cousin.
September
MICHAEL SHEEN is truly MAGNIFICENT.
— Michael Warburton (@MichaelWarbur17) September 9, 2022
Get a LOAD of THIS. pic.twitter.com/zZh5k3jcSs
It's Murder Out There for Reporters
Fuck the Browns and the horseshit they rode in on.
Y'all have been doing it wrong.
There were a lot of really cool recurring music posts, like Whitney's Six-Pack, Notify, and zShazams, so consider this entry a nod to all of them, and please to be keeping them coming, gents.
This Outside Magazine article about Russ Byars is one of the best things I read in 2022.
October
Not that the NFL has it's shit together.
It's in the Net! Happy trails, Dave Johnson.
You can't fire me, I quit! Oh, you can?
More pessimistic than not about the future of the Republic. Good times.
November
We spilled a lot of pixels on the midterm elections. Fettermaaaan!
I picked Argentina to win the World Cup. Pretty, pretty good. (We'll not discuss the rest of the Final Four.)
The machines are getting closer and closer.
These fuckwits are coming for our legacy.
The committee that decides such things named OBX Dave the 2022 MVG, and the press release was drafted and everything. Something about consistently excellent long-form pieces about diverse and interesting topics. But then we got an anonymous tip that he was actually once a professional scribbler, and by our complex and time-honored and not just made up rules, that makes him ineligible. So we're vacating the title.
Posts
19 comments:
I see how this post could take awhile to compile.
Sweet Jeebus, please let Georgia lose.
Another fine tour around the Gheorghie playground. Well executed, Robbie.
And Mark, it appears your wish is being ignored
tcu's next game is coach prime's colorado debut, 9/2 in fort worth. gonna be some pent up frustration on display, i'd imagine.
Indeed. But Fort Worth will cross Coach Prime’s mind and he’ll be ready.
This game bums me out. Fucking Ohio State. At least I’m eating short rib tacos.
My kid came home from school sick today. Stuffy. Fever. Pretty sure I feel worse.
Nice job Roberto as always.
And yes, what a letdown last night was. I actually thought it was going to be a fairly competitive game. Glad I didn't wager. At least we have a few more weeks of the NFL. It's been a long time since I've cared.
Dry "January" (the 1st through the 23rd; and then 27th - Feb 4), my first ever, is going well not that you care. It's broken due to annual golf biz convention in Orlando. Sure, I could abstain, but I won't and nor do I want to. This is sad to say but I don't think I've gone more than 8 days without booze since I was a cultish multi-sport guy - 6-7 years. It feels good. Sleep has been great. Carry on.
i was very confident that the dawgs would cover the 12.5 points, so i made a wager that's larger than i'm usually comfortable with. not phil mickelson territory, but enough to afford a nice new pair of shoes with the winnings.
Father John Misty on tour this spring. I know a gheorghie who digs his music quite a bit.
Norfolk, Roanoke, Asbury Park, Port Chester, Providence -- Shirley you can make it to a show, Z
Shirley I can, let me check the fambly schedule. I'm the ideal husband.
rhett miller’s on the road, as well. a week from today at union stage in deecee.
Honored that the committee considered and summarily rejected my nomination, but grateful that I'm welcome in the digital tree fort.
whit, what does the gheorghemas calendar say about the rough timing of day 12?
April 26 in Norfolk….interesting
covid finally got my wife-- she's sleeping down in the basement. sick, but not too sick. and we made it to colin quinn on saturday. alex had it in the summer, ian and i are last men standing . . .
Cat is sick and you are making her sleep in the basement?
Robbie, hope to have day 12 up by end of the week.
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