Grieco is the Word, the Word that You Heard

Here is a list of some words and phrases that have appeared or will most likely appear on GIK at some point. I have taken the liberty of translating them from Grieco into the common tongue. I plan on updating the list regularly, so if you have any terms you would like to add please [...]

The GIK Ratings System

Ratings
1-Grieco: There’s probably a re-run of “Full House on.” Watch that instead.
2-Griecos: Washed-up stars, watered-down action, and my friends are at work. What the hell.
3-Griecos: Bad religious symbolism abounds and the gunplay is damn near balletic. My Friday night is looking up.
4-Griecos: If Looks Could Kill. All I’m sayin’.
**If ever I should come across [...]

There Can be Only One (and a few sequels and a TV show)

Seriously, Thanksgiving destroyed me. Everything I ate was beige. However, while fighting through my turkey coma I managed to work in a viewing of a film that many consider to be a true masterpiece.
Highlander
Now, before devotees to the Clan MacLeod demand that my head be removed in single combat for even suggesting that Highlander is [...]

Has Anybody Seen This Movie?

I need help. I have this movie running through my mind, but I’m not sure if it’s real or if it came to me in a dream. Reese Witherspoon, playing a plucky young go-getter who harbors a sharp and witty intellect beneath her cute-as-a-button exterior, must bake and sell cookies in order to raise enough [...]

Dragons, Bro. Dragons

Before I get started, I would like to thank Aspen for setting all of this up for me, as I am still baffled by this newfangled technology. Now, let’s get down to Grieco…or at least let’s try to make him proud.
When I lived in Chicago, I spent about three weeks working at this horrible adult [...]

And God Said, "Let There be Grieco!"

In 2000, I left the warm flatlands of Texas and headed north to the lake-effect-snow-covered streets of Chicago. From the moment I got there, I struggled to adjust to a city where phrases like “at least it’s above zero” and “you think this is cold? Wait ‘till February. That’s freakin’ cold” are thrown around on [...]