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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No matter how many times I look at this photo, it still makes me howl.<\/p>\n
It’s a visual joke, but it’s also a mistake … a blessed mistake. My parents, my brother and my uncle Tom and I went out to the Statue of Liberty. It was a great day. Really cold and glittery. I hadn’t been out there since a field trip when I was 9 years old. The sun was getting lower in the sky so the shadow of the Statue stretched across the little island, long and thin. My parents were standing directly in the shadow of the statue, and asked me to take a picture. My brother stood off to the side – trying to duplicate in his own shadow the look of the Statue’s shadow, arm in the air, etc.<\/p>\n
The idea was that across the ground there would be two identical shadows – only one would be the huge statue’s, and one would be his. Funny, right? But I didn’t really get the joke of what my brother was going for – so I included him in the picture. Which completely killed HIS joke but made another joke on another level.<\/p>\n
The idea was to cut him out off to the side, but include his shadow.<\/p>\n
So it looks like my parents are nice and smiling and oblivious as this insane man crouches in a frozen isolated pose off to the right.<\/p>\n
If I ever need a good laugh – and I often do these days – I pull out this picture.<\/p>\n
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No matter how many times I look at this photo, it still makes me howl. It’s a visual joke, but it’s also a mistake … a blessed mistake. My parents, my brother and my uncle Tom and I went out … Continue reading