Gheorghe: The Blog

Bad times " on the streets of Houston Town ," as we have seen in startling technicolor this week. Don't read any of the arti...

My kids love horror movies - the gorier, the better. Me, not so much. Hell, the trailer for the upcoming revival of Stephen King's IT i...

I love each of you equally, and for different reasons. For example, I love Teejay for his utter lack of self-consciousness in service of mak...

Last year was a bit challenging for me in a handful of ways. Family illness, divorce #2, got no jack, blah blah blah. There's no time to...

A little upbeat 80s alternative for those of you who have kids who went back to school this week. Mine started 8th and 10th grade today. Lif...

Car and Driver called it one of 1992's ten best vehicles , "an honor earned by giving the enthusiast as fine a combination of value...

On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea, and sank in 72 minutes. The cruiser was ...

Contra Florence Welch, the dog days are most certainly not over. The doldrums are full upon us, in more ways than one. Leave it to the commu...

Thursday Filler....

Look. This is a team effort, boys and girls. A lot of you aren't going to be super happy when performance evaluation time comes around t...

I'm in a dark fucking mood, people of the House Gheorghe (someone needs to work on a sigil). I've got post ideas ranging from rage t...

Connor Burchfield's been in the weight room There are lots of reasons to believe that the 2017-18 season will be a challenging one f...

Generally speaking, what happens at OBFT stays at OBFT. At least the stuff that needs to stay at OBFT. In this case, most of that is related...

If things go according to plan, I'll be driving down to Norfolk when this post hits the internet. For your convenience, I have provided ...

For the second time in the past three years, I really, truly disconnected from the workaday world and spent four days and three nights paddl...

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...