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wince for the camera
By briantologist | November 26, 2007
So yes, there was that whole thing with the near-crippling nausea and the family portrait, and what you get when you add those two things together is the following:
I’d have already decided to send this one out as our XXX-mas card this year if it weren’t for the understated grace of this:
It’s worth at least 1,120 words.
Topics: Hoo!, NaBloPoMo | 19 Comments »
November 26th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Truly, truly outrageous.
November 26th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
I am delurking for the first time ever to let you know that I laughed so hard and so abruptly that I choked on my own spit. Thanks!
November 27th, 2007 at 7:01 am
That’s a framer.
November 27th, 2007 at 7:17 am
omfg. that is so beautiful that my ovaries are aching, oh wait I don’t have ovaries but they still ache.
November 27th, 2007 at 8:10 am
Yessss!
November 27th, 2007 at 8:30 am
I laughed so explosively that many people near my office craned their necks to make sure I was okay.
In that first, classic photo it really looks like Brian is abducting the son of some lady who was innocently posing for a portrait.
But really, the second photo is a very nice shot of you all. Especially the little excavator in the middle.
November 27th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Love. The. Fingah.
November 27th, 2007 at 11:58 am
also delurking to thank you for making my day! that is the best family picture ever taken and one that the little man will be proud of one day…too bad you didn’t capture the scene of him showing you his treasure.
November 27th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
that is PRECIOUS. Hilarity aside, Erin you look stunning.
November 27th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Delurking also to say OMG hillarious! and what a cute family!
November 27th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Jesus. Did you know graham cracker can come out of your nose if you laugh unexpectedly while eating one? Yeah.
November 27th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Oh, that second one is the Cadillac of Xmas card photos.
November 28th, 2007 at 8:55 am
I’m thinking double-sided Christmas cards this year. Because you must use both.
November 28th, 2007 at 10:47 am
These will be really funny to me once I hear that there is at least one more, one that shows Henry being the very handsome, charming little lad that he often appears to be. Speaking as a grandmother-type person who has just taken approximately two hundred photos of a boy baby in order to immortalize in a picture the perfection of the actual face, I would be upset to hear that mere flaming bowels could sway you from persevering until Christmas card nirvana was achieved. Wait, make that valhalla. Wait, go ahead and make that heaven. The other two probably don’t have Christmas cards.
November 28th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
There is nothing mere about the flaming bowels. Particularly the waves upon waves of crippling nausea which accompanied them.
Fortunately there are another few hundred thousand frames to choose from, so I think we’re covered.
November 28th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Wow. I feel a little better about my own pathetic attempts at family photographs now. Thanks!
November 29th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Aw! Adoreableness!
November 29th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Oh! sorry if it sounded like I was making light of your illness Brian. Not at all. I thought using the phrase “flaming bowels” after the word “mere” would make it ironic. So much for my language skills. But glad to see you’re on the mend and also to see potential good news for the family. Since I usually wind up making these comments all about me, might as well tell you that most of my career as a public school educator was spent as a middle school librarian. The kids always believed me when I told them that Melvil Dewey was my father! Even so it wasn’t much of a hook. Anyway….good luck with that.
November 30th, 2007 at 12:22 am
No, believe me, it’s not your language skills, it’s my squinting hostility and random fits of pique at fault. You’re fine.