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