What are finer – or more boring to strangers – than pics from a family get together?
As LI was recently in Chicago with my family, and as my family obsessively photographs everything, I thought I’d post some pics.
So first, here we are, or here we are excluding my sister Jenny's side of the family - hmm, we never did take a complete picture, now that I think of it - all dressed up to go to the reception. My older sister, on the left, is very proud of the shawl she purchased in Ecuador. I don’t know how I ended up in the back, looking quizzical... too bad. I purchased a very rocking suit from Goodwill for this occasion. My niece Megan lends a little color to our drab grays and blacks.
Then a Lake Michigan pic, with my two brothers, Dan and Doug, and my about-to-go-to college nephew, Whit.
And finally, a failed theatrical pic of me crawling on a dune. This shot was supposed to be remind us all of the classic New Yorker cartoon showing a guy crawling in the desert. I failed, however, to look like a guy crawling through the desert. If I had only taken a pair of scissors to my clothes and shredded them, I think this pic would have worked. Well, next time.
“I’m so bored. I hate my life.” - Britney Spears
Das Langweilige ist interessant geworden, weil das Interessante angefangen hat langweilig zu werden. – Thomas Mann
"Never for money/always for love" - The Talking Heads
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2 comments:
You all look so American!
Ah, you should have seen the family my nephew married into - Chicagoan to the core! It would have reminded you, I think, of one of the authors you're reading - Philip Roth. An early story, Goodbye Columbus.
I'm a little bummed that my crawling across the dunes pic didn't come out right. It was a very funny idea, God damn it. Although my brothers told me it wouldn't work.
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