May 24, 2010
Loving Headlock
Date: December 30, 1999
Location: North Haledon, NJ
Description: Every couple has their own unique way of expressing their love. Odie does it by panting and drooling. Salvador Dali did it by keeping away from his wife at all costs. Dick Cheney expresses his love by shooting people in the face. Aaron would often express his love to his then-girlfriend Julia by putting her in some painful wrestling move. Her reaction always intrigued me – it was rarely anger, it was more often just a shrug of the shoulders and a confused look. I think this would ultimately be good practice for the patience she would need to display having an infant. This was taken, I believe, in the midst of a game of ‘Dash, as most headlocks seemed to be. Seen in the background is the painting job of Kevin on Mitch’s bedroom walls, which was somewhere between Edvard Munch’s The Scream and a Grateful Dead tour shirt. This photo also makes me keenly aware that timestamps on photographs, though a bit of an eyesore, can be extremely helpful, as I likely would have been off on this date by a good year or two.