Gheorghe: The Blog

Friend of G:TB Wheelhouse Jerry coined the phrase 'futile superfans' several years ago to describe our generally quixotic semi-obses...

I once floated the hypothesis that "handiness" is in inverse proportion to time spent building Lego kits. I based this (as I do a...

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wr...

There once was a man who said, ‘Damn!’ It is born in upon me that I am An engine that moves In predestinate grooves, I’m not even a bus, I’m...

Continuing the white-guy funk festival theme, I saw Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue at a small venue on Thursday night (I'm the whi...

Have you ever said to yourself, "I'm looking for some new music, maybe some acid jazz/Afro-funk, the type of thing Don Draper's...

It's apparently Block Quotes Day here at G:TB, and I sure as hell didn't want to miss out. Enjoy: Netherlands: Woman tunnels out of...

I thought this type of thing only happened in Florida. When a Swedish dope smoker's TV started talking to him and his girlfriend appeare...

The nature of pop culture is such, especially these days, that serious events are somehow simultaneously overdramatized and dehumanized. Med...

Trolling the Twitter this morning I stumbled upon this video of Vince Carter apparently hitting a three quarter court shot...while sitting o...

When you're presented with an article like this **, and you're me, your immediate response of course is "Tragic. Now what tang...

And to think, we passed up an opportunity to join Shlara at a United Skeeball D.C. tournament on Friday. If it's all the same with you,...

Join me in the comments with guesses as to what put that Cheshire grin on Gheorghe's mug...

As promised, a little bit of eye candy for our female followers. Consider it our own tiny version of Tiger's apology. And a reminder o...

Vampire Weekend's second album "Contra," and its noteworthy cover art , came out a month or two ago. It's good but basica...

At the risk of continuing G:TB's slide into lad magazine territory (and really, what's so wrong with that, as long as we continue to...

In honor of this very special day, a video for you:

Well, I'm back from Vegas, about 50% recovered, and chock full of stories. No, not really. The truth is that nothing happened as wild as...

From your non-sectarian friends at G:TB.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency just spent a ton of taxpayer dollars to prove something that we at G:TB knew was possible decades ago. On t...