Do you remember taking pictures when you had no idea what they looked like? Pictures you couldn’t see instantaneously and delete if your upper lip hair was catching the wrong light. You would have to bring a roll of film to the store, get it developed, and then wait days and days before you got them back!

Oh wow… so that is what I look like with my eyes closed in my prom dress. Sweet.

Doesn’t that all seem so archaic now? But how precious were those pictures to you?

It is not like you have 10,000 pictures of yourself as a baby…. you probably have about 7. You can show those 7 pictures to your child and say, “This is what I looked like when I was young. They may not be the best pictures taken of all time, yes I am naked in more than half, and if you squint and defocus your eyes for these this last two they are actually in focus.”

Not to mention the fact that they are physical pictures that you can touch and hold with your hands! What ever happened to that? I never take my digital pictures to be printed…

How is The Munch ever going to show pictures of herself to her Munch? She is going to have to download them from a hard drive… if hard drives even exist and we don’t have them installed in our brains. And then her and her child will have to sit down for about 5 months to just get through the first year because I have taken so many goddamn pictures? Don’t get me wrong… it is cool that not only my phone, but key chain, toaster and banana all have a camera in them, but it makes pictures a little less sentimental when you have so many.

But…. speaking of downloading pictures I just found this one off a camera I hardly use and thought it was HILARIOUS! Doesn’t The Munch look like she is some totally demented character out of Alice in Wonderland?? With the backwards clothes, head the size of an asteroid, and placidly serene look on her face??!