With spring getting ready to finally bloom and warmer temps coming, all of nature awakens including the fish. This week in the Candy Shop, err Fish Shop, we have some great and sexy mermen!!!!! Yes mermen! My co-worker and friend Manny Gonzalez is a very talented costume designer. He and another friend who also works with us put together a bear calendar of mermen, all of who are from Asbury Park. Manny and friend Jim put the whole thing together with a photographer, with all shots being from around Asbury Park. The calendar sold out in a week!!!! With the profits going to Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey LGBTQ Health Center. WOOF!
Dan Shields
Jim's husband, Celal Ismett.
Rich Hunell
Stacey Savage
David Maina and Chris Montedoro
Good friend, Jim Berry
Casey Bowen
This is Manny Gonzalez in the back, and his husband Nelson Mottaivivas, as zombie mermen.
Oz Salvatierra
Whose ready for fishing season?
I love these! Arial eat your heart out!
ReplyDeletePass the tartar sauce please. Aren't they all just cute little willies!
ReplyDeleteXO and one for Jesus
Miss R
Time to fish or cut bait!
ReplyDeleteOh what fun!!!!! I love all men! Those two on the life gaud chair are adorable as is Jim!!! That photo is precious.
ReplyDeleteAnd all for a good cause!
Your friends sure like their beards huh! Those are some cool pictures and a fun idea come to fruition.
ReplyDeleteMermen!
ReplyDeleteEthel!
DeleteWe need a bigger boat!
ReplyDeleteIt is a lot of cod.
DeleteI like my cute guys but I like my bears and otters too!!! These are very fun pictures. Your friends are talented Mistress.
ReplyDeleteOh, I love the one with Jim and his parasol. And washed-up-on-the-deck Oz.
ReplyDeleteDo they come with their own batter, or do we have to supply our own?
YNMMY!!!!! I love fish!
ReplyDeleteReally? That's not what I heard!
DeletePearly is more our surf and turf gal!!!
DeleteI've never seen a merman before. (I know, I need to get out more) They look fabulous!
ReplyDeleteWhen I worked as a lifeguard I may have
ReplyDeleteworked with a couple of these guys!
Ooh, dogs, squirrels, gnomes and now mermen! Interspecies collaboration. You go, tdm!
DeleteI want stacey; bro got it goin' on!
ReplyDeleteI know, right. Stacey is too sweet looking to have that last name.
DeleteI don't know if I have the right bait.
ReplyDeleteThis is fabulous!!!! Kudos to your friend and these guys! Bears are fun.
ReplyDeleteBears and Mermen are fun!!!! I love the merman in the swan. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI was never a fish eater, but the merman in the Adirondack chair? Rich? HUBBA HUBBA!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a brilliant idea. Glad to hear it did well for your friends.
I always knew mermen existed.
ReplyDeleteI love this merry band of mermen! I hope it's not catch and release!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was single, and I went fishing, it was more like trolling. Fun pictures.
ReplyDeleteHow creative! The tails on these guys are quite fetching. I’m sure they’re equally delightful out of costume, too 😉
ReplyDeleteOhhh I love this so hard!
ReplyDeleteMermen are my favorite!
XOXO
I knew it!!! I knew Mermen were real!!!
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