Gheorghe: The Blog

I'm readily and consistently amazed by the sheer variety of the human experience, the multi-hued, manifoldly abled diversity of our brot...

Below is the view out of my office looking due North. The building at the bottom left is The Ritz . No, it's not a 5-star hotel. It'...

So apparently Eddie Vedder joined Roger Waters onstage for "Comfortably Numb" recently.  Not bad. Now, Roger made the Douche ...

On this day in 1899, Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, IL. In honor of Papa's birthday, we kick off the first-ever G:TB Writing Cha...

We've talked about NPR's Tiny Desk concert series here before , though probably not enough. One of these days, I'll do a post ab...

Our man at the beach returns with another cautionary tale about growing old, getting medical tape stuck to groin-area hair, and surgical adv...

The athlete visits sick kid trope is nearly as old as modern sports. Babe Ruth legendarily hit a trio of homers in Game 4 of the 1926 World ...

Who wore pink better: The increasingly creepy Sammy Sosa... (no, the color on this picture has not been altered) or Ringwald?

My tweet is a high-quality tweet and I applaud its transparency. Please, Everyone. Enjoy Potus Each Evening. The Actual Proof Exists. — ...

I'm on one of my semi-regular jaunts to the Twin Cities. As usual, I landed at MSP. made my way to the rental car lot, and turned on 89....

FOGTB Dave Fairbank has a lot of time on his hands, apparently, what with the beachside living and all. He sent me the following DM via Twit...

In the comments a post or two ago I recommended a song, but no one probably saw it because I commented just as a new post was going up. So,...

The headline on the Paste Magazine story read, "Watch The Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" Video Recreated Sesame Street-Style...

You know that commercial. The one with the barber shop. But you may not know the back story of the song. Well, I don't know it either....

Happy Fourth of July Gheorgies!!  Here is a little cup or two of Independence Day cheer to enjoy while beaching, BBQing, boating, or just bl...

Unburdening the hungover mind grapes of a handful of generally irrelevant but somewhat timely thoughts, GTB-style. A couple of days ago , ...

Today, as much as any day in the past five months, I need a distraction. Because real life is fucking barking mad. I feel like Alex Honnal...

I just finished recording and mixing a new song-- "Circumscribed" -- and I learned so much during the process that I've decide...

Long ago, Whitney pegged my mental age at 92 . . . for those of you unfamiliar with this concept, your mental age is the age that most consi...

Last time we came here to sing the praises of Open Culture , an incredibly diverse and extensive compendium of free literary, academic, musi...