These are all from the day "Dudes With Beers, No Shirts and a Camera Inc." was born. Basically it's a company we came up with after being kicked out of the portrait studio on Western Ave. (Country Studios, motherfuck that place.) APPARENTLY, they want you to actually buy someething after using the "free portrait sitting for an 8x10" coupon half a dozen times. The blower who runs the place said we were a band because of the stupid keyboard we had with us, so he had to charge us a "band promo photo rate" which was something outrageous like three hundred dollars. So we were all NAH BRAH and went to take our own pictures in the cemetary next door, because we're all closet goths. We had to leave when people were coming to lay flowers on the graves because that was a little too awkward, being that we're not REAL goths. (See other blog for brief story about Greg wanting to rob graves a few years ago though. -ed.)

We then went to the Bavarian Chalet swim hole and took a few more. Someone else has the group shot w/ the aforementioned beers and no shirts, sadly I don't.

But if anyone is interested, our service works like this: You meet us in the parking lot of a Stewarts, pay us $20 and a case of beer, and we take you somewhere really awesome that you've probably never been before, give you sweet costumes and props, take a bunch of pictures, print them up and frame them for you, and we do all this while drinking shirtless. It's pretty much the best photo studio ever, and if you're interested in setting up an appointment, email: grossnation@gmail.com. Seriously.