The Obligatory Paul Simon Reference Comes in the Seventh Graf

He confuses Mad Men with Real Life.

No wonder the NYT has gotten more dipshitty over the years.

BTW, you’re right. No one loved vacation slides. My dad showed them for a while, but he saw how bored the rest of us were with them (and we were in THEM!) and stopped.

@ManchuCandidate: The fun only came when either a slide appeared upside down or, better yet, jammed in the auto feed. The family slides are a hoot to revisit, but the color on the Kodachrome has not withstood the ravages of time.

@Nabisco:
Or when the bulb burnt out.

You’re alive!

@Nabisco: Agreed. I’ve been digitizing old slides the I took during the B. C. (before children) era. The fabled warmth and saturation aren’t there any more, for the most part.

I’ve got boxes in the attic. They look like shit. Bleached and foxed.

The New York Times: We Get It Wrong So You Don’t Have To.

I’m going to boldly disagree and claim some happy and nostalgic memories from family slideshows. My dad’s parents were pretty regular travelers, and nearly every visit to their house included a trek down the basement to watch their latest slideshow. Of course, at the time my sister and I were bored silly over all the foliage shots that my grandpa took and mostly just waiting for the opportunity to fight over the controller and bring up the next slide. But now, those are some of the most concrete memories I have of my grandparents, plus I’ve realized that my grandpa’s and dad’s love of photography is a cool legacy that I’m just now starting to embrace/inherit.

I should add that I’m probably only a few years older than Ponch anyway, so you can hold fast to your you-damn-kids-don’t-know-anything-about-nostalgia attitude if you must.

@flippin eck: I will make an exception for campground slideshows presented by hardy public servants, but that’s another thing entirely.

@flippin eck: I suspect you come from one of those strange families that like each other. I’d heard about this phenomenon but not actually witnessed it up close.

@Benedick: This is why you have to get your ass to Chicago. I’m telling you, it’s like seeing a white tiger in the wild.

@flippin eck: You warm my cold, grinchy heart.

@Mistress Cynica: That’s Homofascist. I’m more an awkward and improbable okapi. But I agree that Benedick needs to come visit posthaste. And Nojo. And Manchu and Bisco and Jaime and Baked and JNOV and all the other Stinquers who have yet to get their ass to Chicago! Oh and you need to return asap, of course!

@flippin eck: I would so love to! May I play with the bunnies? (When The Hawk and Lake Effect have left, natch.) ;-)

Hey, projecting a killer image is nice but there is nothing to match the glory of a well balanced Cibachrome print from a competently exposed Kodachrome transparency. Cibachromes just glow with a light all their own.