The HoG One-Year Anniversary Presents "Things We Actually Covered Well": Part Three, WAHCW

As our year-anniversary, self-inflicted crotch rub celebration continues (Editor's Note: We can't thank the hordes of you who've sent cakes and cards enough), it's time to re-visit another aspect of our coverages that might be found synonymous with words like successful, laudatory, bravado. And this feature hasn't been an easy one to upkeep. As later noted, there are a few gaps in the consistency of its appearance, but being that we operate on a pretty small budget, it's not easy to keep flying in talent, schedule the photographers, etc., etc.

That said, there have been a few installments of the WATCH, as Seven likes to call it, that have in fact given us the esteemed red-letter day on occasion over these past 12 months. We've taken it upon ourselves to share a few of those with our readers, after the jump, this time sparing the eyes and the wrists of those oft-obnoxious links. Well, most of them, anyway. (Note: We've recruited a very special narrator to re-hash the year. Enjoy.)

"Yeeeaaaah....hey, reader. How's it going?

"Mmm-hmm. Wanted to talk to you about this Hot Chicks Wednesday business. Yeeaah. I'm gonna have to go ahead and say that these, uh, yeeah, Houses of George characters haven't exactly done the most efficient job in this series, but, uh...well, we'll cover that later, 'kay?"

April



"Let's see. So, the, uh, House, of, uh, Georges team didn't really have a whole lot going on in April. Pretty, uh, amateur stuff, if you will. They did have this post on Monica Bellucci, but, uh, yeah...not a whole lot more."



"So, I, uh, took the liberty of including this photo. She seems like an intelligent young gal, someone I'd like on board with me at my company. Keeping busy. Reading. Probably works weekends without being asked. Mm-hmm."

May



"Right. Apparently, May was famous people month for the team of Georges."



"Couldn't get any local talent, so they had to make do with images of folks we already knew were talented."



"Yeeah. Pretty me-di-ocre in my estimation."

June



"June included some posts of some interesting names,



like 'The Sultry Stare,' and 'Cat Scratch Fever,' and 'Who's the Boss?'"



"Yeeah. Clever, but, uh, not very original. I'd give that month a C-."

July



"In my eyes, July tended to get a little out of hand."



"And really, what do we mean by 'out of hand'?"



"We pretty much mean lazy, unoriginal, lots of, uh, (throws finger quotes in air) 'shock value' material, if you will."



"But, uh, you know, this house full of georges



may as well've called themselves a house of rookies this first go around."

August

"Yeah. Now that I've gone out on that limb,



August did show marked signs of improvement.



"Although there was some material here that I, uh, yeah, well, I'm not really sure if I got it.



"Nevertheless, it was a busy month for this feature



as it generated five installments and included some clever names like 'Top Shelf',



'The Buddy System', etc."

September



"Mmm-hmm. And then there's September.



"Right back into the thick of laze. Generic posturing,



footballish scenes,



and, uh, overall monotony.



"The Georges plugged along, but, yeah, originality



really faltered in September.



"Maybe one of their, uh, weakest months thus far. In fact, if they could avoid that trend for all of 2008, that'd be grreat.

October



"And we see it continuing in October,



only this time with less output.



January



"Yeeah, and that brings us to November and December where, we, uh, don't see much of anything from these Georges. Pretty embarrassing.



"At least there's the token January post.

February



"February we see a little more effort, sort of coming out



of that winter's coma, if you will.

March



"And March is, uh, still ongoing, of course.



"I suppose if you wanted to inspect one specimen of this year's worth



of installments, it might behoove you to do so for the lone March edition.



"It's got nice variety and generated some conversation, and, uh, in all likelihood, can be found here.

"So, um. Yeah. I'm gonna need the Georges to go ahead and work weekends to make this feature better if they want me to re-cap it again next year. If they, uh, if they can make that happen, that'd be grreat."