A Year in Pictures of Working

I got a DHL package at work today.

Jarecki: Is this another clean room outfit?
Me: Oh no. This is far weirder.

Apparently when my college friend, Zabor, was on '1 vs 100' with a group of morticians, it was part of a promotional push for their beefcake calendar, 'Men of Mortuaries.'

Zabor's picture, for March, is fairly tasteful, a normal headshot. You'd barely notice that there's the edge of a casket in the background.

The pictures get stranger as the year progresses, though. For August, a mortician (with muscles so big he probably couldn't be buried by conventional means) is covered in sweat and grease while changing the tire on his hearse. According to the calendar, "his hobbies include weight-lifting and body-building."

For October, a mortician hands over an urn of ashes to an anonymous widow, while looking past her to give some serious bedroom eyes to the camera. It's as if he's saying, "I've got to wrap this up, but I'll get to YOU next."

Each month also offers informative tidbits like, "The practice of using caskets in order to keep the disease of death with the body and not allow it to spread into drinking water systems goes as far back as ancient times," and, "Embalming is not required by law."

They accidentally sent me two copies of the calendar, so, if anyone's interested, I have an extra one. Better yet, you can order one here. Money raised by the calendar benefits a breast cancer charity.

# posted by Arnie : 7:26 PM