Just returned from seeing the Trachtenburg Family Slide Show Players at the Middle East, and they were just as inspired, un-polished, and bizarro as ever, with dad on keys and guitar, more Rick Moranis than even Rick Moranis, mom on the slide projector with her new red hair (or at least new since I saw them last at SxSW last spring), and Rachel on the skins, looking, as Aimee put it, like she was dressed up for a colonial history project at school, and asking in the middle of the show if dad had his gloves so they could make a snowman afterwards. Paradise Guy was once again in the house, rushing in just before the second opener went on, and with his notebook in hand. The show was brief, with almost as much explanation as performance, but they did the hits (Don’t You Know, Eggs) and some new ones, but I did miss the McDonald’s corporate meeting song, whichever one that was.