Thank you Adam!!

Sooo Adam from The Free Thinker made me a banner!!
And I have even learned the code for how to make a banner into a link! Use the <> things instead of brackets, but the code goes like this:

[a href="http://graham-grahamblings.blogspot.com"][img src="http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/1298/grahambannerjm0.jpg"][/a]

So, def link to me with that if you can!

Here You Go...

Before I start, I just want to let you know that I wrote more of Glamorous last night. Go check it out!

Anyways, Adam mentioned last week that he prefers real people to the stars I usually post about. Now, because I am shallow and almost all of my friends are super attractive it wouldn't be hard for me to do a pretty person of the week from them....so, this week, I am obliging Adam and posting about my friend, the model Tony Gibble.


You've seen him before if you've been reading for longer than two weeks. Where? Mardi Gras. (And you know anyone who can still look that good in horizontal black stripes is niiice. Because, seriously, not even I can pull off horizontal black stripes, sleeveless or no.)

I'm gonna start off explaining how I was fortunate enough to meet this guy. It's one of those "fate" things, I swear it. See, I'm in H&M buying underwear for work and he's in line ahead of me. There's another guy (who I don't know who he was but whatever :P) playing with this adorable kid nearby. Tony and I were both watching so I said "He's adorable" and thus, Tony and I struck up a fairly typical in-line-at-the-store conversation about Tony's son (who is adorable, if you didn't pick up on that. :P) And from the couple of times we've discussed his son, it sounds to me like Tony is one dad who knows what he's doing without being the embarrassing uncool father. We should all be so lucky, right? I know that's not the kind of father I got stuck with. :P

Anyways, I ran across him via a friend on Myspace and was like "Crazy, it's a small world after all!" and then a few weeks later we ran into each other at the club where I was working. That was a truly awful night but Tony really helped me survive it and kept me smiling. He's a total sweetheart, with a sense of humor to boot.

Obviously he's self confident (you have to be do the kind of photos he does, everything from high fashion to artistic nudes!). And is it hard to see why? He has an amazing body and the CUTEST smile! And, as you'll see in the next picture, he looks really good in multiple different styles of hair!

He is great at getting emotion through his pictures too. Like in the one above and to the left there's this innocent-ness that, trust me, he's faking (:P), but it's pretty clearly there.

In short, aside from being drop-dead sexy, Tony's a great friend, a good father, and an all around great person. And, yes, Adam, he's real.

So, I'll just finish this up with a couple more of his hotttt photos:
Awww, look at him glow!! :)
His modeling career really is going quite well, and I hope he continues to become more and more successful. Imagine him on the cover of GQ or something! That'd be up there on the list of most exciting things ever.

As for any photographers that may be stumbling upon this post...I'm sure he'd love to work with you! You should visit his site (click on his name at the top of this post or click the link of the sidebar!)
Not that I'm like shamelessly advertising for my friends here but your portfolio is not complete without Tony in it. :P

Breaking out of the usual...

I don't typically do memes on this blog. I usually have too much else to say. But usually I haven't been tagged, and now I have this obligation to Steve to do his meme. :P

Memes are fun, maybe I should do them more often. Anyways, here goes:

Here are five things about me. Four of them are true. One is a lie. Try to guess which is which. :)

1. I am a member of pretty much every networking site I've ever seen.
2. I have never broken a bone or been stung by a bee.
3. I don't know how to swim.
4. I'm a self-proclaimed seafood snob.
5. I am fiercely loyal to my coffee shops.
   

I am tagging...Sue, Brad, Shaney, ExNavyMike, and Adam.

Let's see...today I went apartment hunting and saw the touring production of The Light in the Piazza. Neither was bad by any means, but neither really was exciting enough to have much to say on here.

Though I gotta say, the guy playing Fabrizio in The Light in the Piazza? HOTTIE!

Hrm. While we're on a roll with these memes, how about this one I stole from Brad?

20 years ago

1.) How old were you? -1. Aheheheh. I feel young now.
2.) Where did you go to school? I didn't.
3.) Where did you work? I didn't.
4.) Where did you live? Come to think of it, at this point twenty years ago (because we are that close to my birthday!) I was residing in my mommy's tummy.
5.) Where did you hang out? Mommy's tummy.
6.) Did you wear glasses? No
7.) Who was your best friend? I was very anti-social. :P
8.) How many tattoos did you have? None.
9.) How many piercings did you have? None.
10.) What car did you drive? I didn't.
11.) Had you been to a real party? Yeah, we really led life in the fast lane in the womb.
12.) Had your heart broken? Nope
13.) Single/Taken/Married/Divorced: I was preparing to divorce my umbilical cord.

10 years ago

1.) How old were you? 9
2.) Where did you go to school? South Road Elementary
3.) Where did you work? I didn't
4.) Where did you live? Mom and Dad's house. Coincidentally, the last residential building I actually felt at home in.
5.) Where did you hang out? My yard, the woods near my yard, the playground, the dirt road behind my house.
6.) Did you wear glasses? Nope
7.) Who was your best friend? I honestly don't remember.
8.) How many tattoos did you have? None
9.) How many piercings did you have? None.
10.) What car did you drive? I didn't.
11.) Had you been to a real party? I don't think I'd even been to a school dance.
12.) Had your heart broken? Nope
13.) Single/Taken/Married/Divorced: Single. Girls had cooties. Boys were weird. Not much has changed. :P

5 years ago

1.) How old were you? 14
2.) Where did you go to school? South Kingstown High
3.) Where did you work? I was doing lots of volunteer -- I hadn't quit Boy Scouts yet, but I'd started with the teen advisory board at the local library.
4.) Where did you live? Same place
5.) Where did you hang out? The park near my school.
6.) Did you wear glasses? I was supposed to wear reading glasses. At the time, I sometimes did.
7.) Who were your best friends? We don't talk about them, they turned out not to be "friends" only a few years later.
8.) Who was your crush? I believe I'd begun my crush on Kendall by that point.
9.) How many tattoos did you have? None.
10.) How many piercings did you have? None.
11) What car did you drive? I didn't.
12.) Had you had your heart broken? No, but it was obviously only going to be a matter of time and everyone, including me, knew it.
13.) Single/Taken/Married/Divorced/Bitter: Single
14.) Any kids? Noooo

Present

1.) How old are you? 19
2.) Where do you go to school? I'm in college in PA. (If you pay close enough attention, you can figure it out, but since I don't know all my readers I'mma make you *work* if you really want to know. :P)
3.) Where do you work? Abercrombie, a gay club
4.) Where do you live? A dorm, and in my parents' new house with my grandmother
5.) Where do you hang out? Gay clubs, the student center, whereever the hell I feel like it
6.) Do you wear glasses? Nope. I have long since "lost" my reading glasse.
7.) Who are your best friends? Oh! I have so many friends now, and I'm close to a large number of them to! I can't possibly decide. I mean, Cody and Johnna obviously but otherwise I simply cannot choose.
8.) Who is your crush? I think I'm getting a crush on Matthias, and I'm not completely over James yet either.
9.) Do you talk to your old friends? Occassionally.
10.) How many tattoo's do have? I'm never getting any.
11.) How many piercings do you have? I'm never getting any.
12.) What kind of car do you have? My beautiful baby, Grandma's 2001 Dodge Intrepid.
13.) Has your heart been broken? Yeah, it has.
14.) Single/Taken/Married/Divorced/Bitter? Single. Getting on towards bitten.
15.) Any kids? Nope.