Perhaps a poor choice of professional head shots

Ladies and gents, meet Michael K. Brandow.

(Big hat tip to Gnomic!)

Update: The guy’s famous.

From Above the Law:

Michael K. Brandow, of the Chicago firm of Brady Connolly & Masuda, P.C., is an irresistable-force, immovable-object, Chuck-Norris-like-awesome worker’s compensation attorney. How does he do it? By sucking the life force out of his opponents and anyone else who might stand in his way with his creepy stare.

On Metachat, one person wrote, “Did we already have the conversation about what the photographer must have told him to say? Maybe it was ‘cheese,’ and he hates cheese.”

And on Trickeries, responding to a comment that Brandow is legally blind:

Myself and the rest of the blogosphere have been having a laugh at his expense ever since the famous photo came to light. So if he is blind why in the hell did someone not tell him how [bleeping] crazy he looked in the picture? Why couldn’t someone say, “We need to take this picture again, you look like a damned lunatic.” This means that everyone from the photographer on down to the webmaster who posted it were either giggling to themselves, or ignoring the crazy looking blind elephant in the room, because they were too “polite” to mention it.