Gheorghe: The Blog

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Saturday, March 30, 2024

The Full Story

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Years ago in my previous life as a newspaper guy, I had occasion to write a feature story about a local high school coach. Successful. Perso...
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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Gheorghe's 6-Pack: World Party

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Who is Mike Scott?  It depends upon whom you ask. You'll get different answers from different pockets of people.  If you ask OBXDave , I...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Earworm Exorcism!

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A year and a half ago, Marls told me I was too stupid to make a podcast. He said I was a mouth-breathing troglodyte with spoiled tapioca pud...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Music to Make Y'all Happy

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The Steel Wheels are an Americana/folk outfit from the Blue Ridge Mountains near Harrisonburg, VA. They've been playing together in vari...
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Sunday, March 24, 2024

Sublime Human Tricks

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Little bit of mellow human harmony to get your Sunday started on the right note. Pun so, so intended. English musician Jacob Collier is vari...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

The Curse of G:TB is NOT a Thing

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At the risk of an epic jinx, or more accurately, the risk of bad timing when something inevitable happens, we come today to talk about one o...
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Monday, March 18, 2024

March Maddening

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The calendar’s best sporting event is upon us, which seems a good time to point out that we should enjoy it while it lasts in its present fo...
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Sunday, March 17, 2024

Pluck of the Irish

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Only fitting on this day that we celebrate Ireland rugby's hard-fought 17-13 win over a game Scotland squad in Dublin yesterday . The wi...
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Thursday, March 14, 2024

Annoying Words, Redux

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Nearly 15 years ago, in a very different age, Whitney took to these interwebz to decry the use of the trite in most conversation and how it ...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Best of Enemies

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Last Sunday, Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool tied Pep Guardiola's Manchester City, 1-1, in a cracker of a Premier League match at Liverpool...
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Monday, March 11, 2024

We're a Joey Votto Fan Site Now

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I come before you today to rectify a great wrong. We have failed as a collective in our duty to the world. How is it possible that we've...
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Friday, March 08, 2024

Gheorghe Explains: We Need to Talk About North Carolina

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As we semi-officially enter the serious phase of what promises to be a deeply unserious, moronic, and fury inducing election season, it'...
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Thursday, March 07, 2024

RIP Steve Lawrence

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Steve Lawrence passed away today at age 88. For you young folks (including me), he was a singer and actor known to our elders and Vegas-goer...
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Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Participation Trophy

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It’s pretty much a given that hoisting your keister off the couch and moving around benefits most of us, whether it’s CrossFit training, rec...
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Monday, March 04, 2024

Gheorghasbord

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All over the place as we head in college hoops tournament season. I'll be pulling for both of Colorado's squads - the men really nee...
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Friday, March 01, 2024

Filler That Deserves Better

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This story deserves a bigger treatment, but we're nothing if not editorially disciplined. Maybe we'll follow up when it comes to its...
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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Hypochondriac No More Filler

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Too soon? I think he'd enjoy it.  Continuing our filler theme for the week, pour some out for the great Richard Lewis, dead yesterday of...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Good Boy Filler

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Whit was half-right. It is, in fact, filler week here at the content factory. But's it's a more specific sort of filler. We continue...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Sports Filler

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It's Filler Week here at Gheorghe: The Forgotten Blog.  Just gotta keep the lights on. We'll be back when we have more time. Enjoy t...
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Monday, February 26, 2024

Rollercoaster Filler

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Since you don't seem to enjoy heartstring-pulling songs about dogs, can I interest you in Cam Newton bodying a bunch of dudes who made t...
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