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It's been a minute. My absence was not due to a lack of love for My Chemical Romance or Frank Iero, but instead due to a slight disconnect from the internet. However, I am back and would like to start up my short lived blog again through a post about Skeleton Crew- the record label and misc created by Frank Iero and friends during the 2000s.

To begin, I will link the label/brand's MySpace via the WayBack Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20090123193245/http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=17489680

Skeleton Crew is self descried in this introductory paragraph:
"Skeleton Crew is a record label, book publisher, and clothing design company. If we're going to do it, we might as well do it all. Skeleton Crew Records will put out limited edition releases, colored vinyl, picture discs, and things I would want as a record collector. Basically whatever the band wants to do, we will put out. Some of the bands you might have heard of, some of the bands you might not have. The one thing they will all have in common is that we like them, which means they are worth checking out. Skeleton Crew Publications will release books written or illustrated by musicians, artists, athletes, and just all around interesting people who have something to say. We are creating a different forum where art and ideas can be presented. With media some of these artists have not experimented with or explored yet. We will not censor any of the artists, they will have full reign over what they create. Last, but not least, is Skeleton Crew Clothing. This is not a t-shirt company! We'll type it again if you didn't read it the first time this is not a t-shirt company. We have nothing against t-shirts, some of our best friends wear them, and we enjoy them as well. All I'm trying to say is that Skeleton Crew is a clothing design company; we are in the process of developing a fall/winter line that will involve more than just screen printed t-shirts. You will be able to wear nothing but Skeleton Crew products for weeks straight to any occasion or destination and never think twice about whether your uniform is comfortable, appropriate, or fashionable. The designs are rad, if we must say so. There are teasers on the website for you right now, but well keep you in anticipation of the clothes for a little bit longer. This is a business that has a greater good in mind, Skeleton Crew will donate a portion of all profits to different charitable organizations, decided upon by the artists we work with.."

The bio for the page is a line you might recognize: "Live everyday like it's your last."



Also found on the page's general info section, each member of the team is described; Frank as the cerebellum, Jamia as the dendrite, and Eddie as the medulla oblongata.

Last but not least, a link to the label's very own website: skeletoncrewonline.com
But for those of us who are attempting to view the page now, we can once again utilize the WayBack Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090120191331/http://www.skeletoncrewonline.com/

For my next few posts, we will dig through the Skeleton Crew website, FTWillz, and merch!

As many fans know, Frank's college work from the year 2001 is forever saved by the web archive. (Yippee!) Under his electronic journal, (for class! nothing private), week 10s entry has some very important words that I would love to have on my blog:

"Can we please wake up from our ignorance. It baffles me that there are so many people in the world with hate in their hearts for people they don’t even know. I cannot understand how people can treat people as less than a human being just because of their sexual preference, or color of their skin.

No one is born with hate in their heart. Hate is something that has been taught, it is not an innate survival skill that we need. It is a form of stupidity that penetrates our minds and will eventually destroy us."

And from week 15: "I would rather go to jail than go to war."

As mentioned in my last entry, here is another one of Frank's favorite quotes by Kurt Vonnegut, writer of Slaughterhouse-Five. "Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt." Under the quote, Frank wrote out his favorite lyric that he has wrote- as asked by a fan. It reads, "I've seen rock bottom and it was love at very first sight," from his song .Stitches. This was posted by Julietremain on Instagram.