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Personally, I think it’s difficult for family photos to not be a bit stilted and weird, but Awkward Family Photos manages to post truly baffling images of badly dressed, strangely posed, and generally weird-looking clans as they wish to be remembered.


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We ran this a while back, but it’s worth revisiting. Overacting poses, exacerbated similes, pretentious backgrounds, freaky characters, you will find all these kind of stuff and much more at the Awkward Family Photos site, which is divided into a pile of categories, such as Awkward Baby Photos, Awkward Engagement Photos, Awkward Family Vacation Photos, and Awkward Prom Photos, among many others. Read more

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I wish people gave presents on Halloween rather than Christmas — then I’d have asked someone to get me these awesome posters by Alamo Drafthouse available through Mandotees. Read more

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California-based drums-bass-piano trio Topaz Rags may or may not have tumbled out of a desert roadhouse, but their sound evokes the kind of gleefully sinister goings-on you might imagine beneath thrumming bug zappers and a flickering neon glow after the bartender has locked the front door and Bubba has donned his purple cloak.

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Jorrit said | 22 May, 2009

Haha funny. I’ve just posted yesterday about this site and used the same picture
http://blocter.com/index.php/2009/05/awkward-family-photos/

Sonya said | 23 May, 2009

This is fantastic, I’m sure I could find a few of my own awkward family pics.

royal creme said | 27 May, 2009

I feel as if these images are from episodes of Snapped…

sarah said | 28 May, 2009

weird! i have that same top picture as a joke on my bookshelf at home but it’s mark wahlberg & marg helgenberger http://www.cthb.org/pics/misc/80schild.jpg anyone know where the celeb one is from? they obviously used this awkward family photo as a template.

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