This is my first photo to NOT feature me in it. And I'm sure some of you find that very hard to believe and that some hacker must have gotten in to my account and done this. But no, it's just humble little old me.

This is my very dear old friend Joe, who plays in a band with my brother called FADED HALO. He is sporting a fancy SWARM OF EYES t-shirt before a gig, and he's giving it his MOST EVILEST look for the GRAPEFRUITS OF METAAAAAAAAL pose!!

Wow, I'm doing a lot of band whoring in this post.

EPIC AND BR00TAL!!

This latest GoM photo was taken in the Garden of the Gods national park on Colorado Springs, CO. There are many GoM pics from that day taken with my good buddies Heather B and Tim C. I'll post more as time goes on. I could probably spend a month just posting those.

But this was my absolute favorite and I had to post this right away. For all of you to see. Which is no one yet. Hmmmm...anti-climactic.

I'm glad that my friends are so understanding....

....or afraid of me. Either way, they play along with me in pictures of such awesomality, and that makes me happy.

Seeing the puzzled look on someone's face when I tell them to strike the pose is priceless to me. Some play along, some can't even do it, some go for the old standby "horns of metal". But sometimes....oh, sometimes I get someone like Barry here, who not only embraced the GoM (grapefruits of metal, duh), but took it to an insane level.

We went to go see the classic thrash band "Deceased" and our friend and co-founder, Mark Adams at the Middle East Club in Cambridge, MA. Everyone was having a fun time playing "Picture Time" and when I busted out the GoM, Barry was willing and able...I think that fucker even showed me up!!

I can't believe I've ventured into the blogging world...

I assume that I'll get tired of this after a while and my posts will go from daily to once a month...until I get bored of it completely and don't update it at all.

Unless I get a MASSIVE following and people are hanging on my every word and photo.... which is about as likely as me drinking the bottle of Purell next to me on my desk.

So the purpose of this blog is to post photos of me or other people in the very obscure pose nicknamed "Grapefruits of Metal". It seems to have originated in the cold northern wilderness of Scandinavia with the very....colorful...black metal bands. Guess it gets boring in Norway. Just picture every photo with the power of metal glowing forth from the outstretched palm...

I think it jazzes up a photograph and it's my way of making a boring posed photo more fun. So over the past few years I've taken to striking the pose with famous people, with friends, in foreign countries, etc.

Did I just type "jazzes"??? I think I'm actually nervous posting a blog. I think I'll just keep reminding myself that no one will be reading it, so I have nothing to be embarrassed about.

Anyway, here is the first photo (I think...I'm still figuring this shit out), me with George Romero. He played along nicely, but as the photo is being taken if you look really closely he's saying, "What the FUCK am I doing??". Seriously. I think he wanted to punch me.

Which is AWESOME.