My Brother, J-Man!

I lucked out when it came to brothers-in-law. They’re both very different men, but they’re both quirky, interesting people who make my sisters happy (respectively, there’s no wife-swapping going on that I know about, but then again, I’m usually the last person to know anything in our family).

This is my little/big brother-in-law, Joel. He’s ‘little’ because he’s shorter than me and married to my younger sister, Steph. He is ‘big’ because he’s older than I am (and yeah that makes him a total cradle-snatcher, gross). He is one of the founders of Umbrella, who manage bands like Cloud Control and he’s part of the Naughty Rappers Collective. We share a love of odd sunglasses, phat beats, touches of urban cowboy (not the touches of urban cowboys, I mean like the fashion concept) and exploding fist bumps.

He is also relentlessly positive and really gets into hobbies, like craft beer making. Sometimes his relentless wit and charm make me feel a little like vomiting on him, just to see what he’d do.

Mostly I don’t because he’s a good boy and nothing gets the smell of vomit out of a 100% cotton plaid button-up urban cowboy shirt.