Bromance of the Week

Paolo and Justin

Word is Bro

No one in the office was surprised when they saw the 2 guys go to lunch for the first time. Not when Justin started dropping by Paolo’s cube on the way to the bathroom just to say hey man, what’s up. And not when it happened more often than not to see both of them huddled close over Justin’s monitor watching YouTube videos of childhood cartoon intros (Transformers, Captain Planet).

Their story couldn’t be more classic than if it was scripted for a feel-good sitcom made for times of economic crisis. Paolo: your married 20-something, a long way from his hometown LA, looking to escape his commitments and prolong happy hours into express train off hours. Justin: a single NYer with boyish charm and few commitments except to figure out which of his boys is going to wingman him at the next party. They both work in an ad agency overrun by females and older, married white guys so it was only a question of time before these two were left to find companionship in one another. Hearing them relate their daily pressures and pleasures during a smoke break is no less of a bro moment than a closing dialogue between Charlie Sheen and John Cryer in Two and a Half Men.

Having taken their friendship past 9-5, bro'ing on the weekends ranges from drinking and hanging with other bros to group trips to wherever Mrs. Paolo has planned (The picture [above] was taken by Mrs. Paolo at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens during the Cherry Blossom Festival).

Despite their disagreements on karaoke song picks and the choice of girls who they’d like to fuck vs chuck in the office, their bond remains as firm as a handshake.


-Submitted by Corrie Re

Bromance of the Week

Matt and Andy

As officemates, their desks face away from each other. But as bros, this positioning runs deeper. They take on the world together, back to back as it were. Last week they cooperated in an online game where they create their own epidemic and have it take over the world, a la Pinky and the Brain. They have weekly discussions of their gym routines, helping each other to custom craft one according to their bodies' needs. They also have an acute collective knowledge of their company's higher-ups, as they sit in the cafeteria spying on them, trading information from their latest business deals down to how they hold their heads as they pee - some say they even have knowledge of the rate of flow of the pee.

Matt and Andy ignore women as they pose. The Blonde is shocked at Matt's indifference, and Andy is visibly perturbed at the touch of the Brunette.

Early on, they created a blog where they adopted monikers of old Englishmen; sources say that this was "presumably to prepare for their later life together." It can be a complicated dynamic, as Andy created a Twitter account soon after Matt signed on as AssLobster, but as undershirts go, Matt sports the Wife-Beater while Andy prefers the Deep-V. For lunch, Matt gets a burger and fries and Andy gets a sandwich and yogurt (except on Buffalo Chicken Thursdays), and they invariably sit together (except on the day they learned of this entry). At the office, if one leaves the room, the other sets up Pandora so that upon return he'll hear, "Turn around, every now and then I get a little bit lonely..." Inside sources say they are constantly found chuckling at each other's text messages; on the weekends when they have nothing to say, they "ping" on their blackberrys to communicate hey, it's me and I'm here. Sources say this spurred on Matt's long time girlfriend to refer to Andy as Matt's "boyfriend". Consequently, it has recently become public that Andy broke up with his girlfriend.