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Is This Pic Fit For the Photo Album?

GiggleSugar — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:00:00 -0700

A new trend is to stuff Baby's First Photo Album with pics of Mom and Pop embracing each other while posing near topless in blue jeans. Nothing out-of-bounds is exposed, and the point is to show off Mom's beautiful baby bump, but is Dad's chest hair (or lack thereof, in the pic below) really necessary? Is this style of photography sweet and honest, or plain ol' inappropriate? You tell me.

Thanks, College Humor!

Fun for the Whole Family!

GiggleSugar — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:02:00 -0700

The gal wearing the boots? Oh that's not a stripper, that's the babysitter.

Thanks, College Humor!

Front and Center, Baby!

GiggleSugar — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:36:59 -0700

We know who wears the leash in this family.

Thanks, College Humor!

What's Wrong With This Picture?

GiggleSugar — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:00:00 -0700

Dern it! Grandma forgot to say cheese.

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Ruh-Roh!

GiggleSugar — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:00:00 -0700

Scooby always managed to steal the show.

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Dressed To Ill

GiggleSugar — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:00:00 -0700

The family that dresses nude together, stays together. (Until the kids reach adulthood and their therapists tell them otherwise.)

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Book Bag: Awkward Family Photos Blog Gets a Deal

TresSugar — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:00:15 -0700

One of my favorite web finds of the past few months, Awkward Family Photos, is moving from photo blog to photo album. In a fairly predictable development, the bloggers behind this brilliantly funny site just scored a book deal with Three Rivers press. So now you can have not only your awkward family photos adorning your coffee table, but other people's, too!

Bloggers Mike Bender and Doug Chernack have been hearing from agents every since the blog debuted in May; the book is slated for release in May 2010. If you need something to read between now and then, I've got you covered.

I'm glad to see quality blogs getting book deals, but I'm also skeptical. A concept like Awkward Family Photos is so perfect for the web - why confine it to the more static book format? Then again, it worked for Post Secret and Stuff White People Like. What do you think?

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Say Awkward! Family Photos to Gawk At

TresSugar — Mon, 11 May 2009 10:04:07 -0700

Good gravy! This site is perfection. Awkward Family Photos rounds up the most humiliating family photos ever to surf the Web, leaving us with one very important lesson: never dress the same. And, sit on a tree. Or, really, let your parents make out.

Très Bizarre: Famillies Dressed in Naked Suits

TresSugar — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:45:00 -0700

Thanks to the website Awkward Family Photos, we all know how uncomfortable family portraits can be. But some families are willing to really embrace the awkward nature of a family photo by dressing up in hand-knit naked suits for the occasion.

San Francisco's public television channel recently caught up with artist Anna Maltz, the woman who makes the head-to-toe suits and then takes photos of people wearing them. (I wonder if she also made the suit Sacha Baron Cohen wore at the Berlin premiere of Bruno?)

Anna explains that she got her inspiration from original naked people Adam and Eve. The only downside to wearing the suit? Curious people often feel free to squeeze what they believe to be fake breasts, when they're actually squeezing the real breasts that lie beneath the suits! Would ever try one on for size?

Can Women Have It All?

TresSugar — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:30:17 -0800

A successful career. A loving marriage. Well-loved and well-behaved children. The promise of women's liberation holds that women can have all of this if that's what they want. But one teacher wrote in the Daily Mail yesterday that telling a young girl that she can reach the top of the career ladder and raise a family is passing on nothing more than a fairy tale. This not-so-modern woman thinks:

"The young women we are sending out into the world believe they can have it all - and, if they don't, they will have failed. And what a tragedy that is, because the truth is that modern women can't have it all. They may succeed in their careers and they may succeed as mothers, but to do both at the same time? No, that is not possible without making huge sacrifices which many will find simply too much."

Obviously life is full of compromises and trade-offs, but I don't think that means women have to choose between success outside the home and success inside the home. With a little balance, I think women, just like men, can manage both. What do you think?
Photos courtesy of AMC