It's gettin' hot in herre

New York City's Bravest have come out with the 2005 FDNY calendar--can I get an 'Amen!' Sixteen NYC firefighters posed for the calendar and all proceeds go to the Fire Safety Education Fund. While the FDNY says this calendar promotes what it takes to be a firefighter in terms of physical condition, I don't think there will be many men interested in a career in fire safety buying this calendar, especially since the people who lined up for their autographed calendar were women. All the same, I see what it takes to be a firefighter and I likey! The cover boy is Patrick Gorman--holy shit is all I have to say. Not to be outshown by Patrick and his fireworks, Jim Gerber who poses on the Marine 1 Fire Boat, is a mass of rippling muscles. They interviewed him and he's pretty damn well-spoken. Just so you know, firefighting is not a full-time job. These guys work 2 days on, 2 days off usually. That's 48 hours of awake time to answer random calls like "the water main broke" and "I got locked out of my apartment" (call the locksmith people). What I think the FDNY should sell is a cookbook! I didn't even know firefighters were such great cooks until I was invited to dinner at my local firehouse a few years back. And try cooking a meal while you are getting calls. We didn't actually eat until 11pm when the calls subsided and we could sit and have our Beef Stroganoff. I think it would be a great benefit and they'd get just as much money from that as the calendar--once again, mostly women would be buying it, but I think a few guys would even do it since this is what the country's best firefighters eat to keep in shape and ready to run into a burning building.