When Passport Photos Go Bad

Actually, Eileen Mitchell’s passport photo wasn’t just run-of-the-mill bad. As she writes in a fine essay in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle, “Imagine a black-and-white mug shot of a drunken Prince Charles in drag, sporting a bad perm—a photo valid for the next five years.” Okay, we’re convinced. That’s bad. Now please help us forget this horrible, horrible image.

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