Every Marriage Is a Courtroom. Drawings by the fantastic Chris Ware for the fabulous This American Life.
(first saw here.thank you!!)
As a really happily married person, with both parents and in-laws who have great roll-model marriages, I didn't just love this video...I completely related. So often, RK and I find ourselves saying, '"um, didn't I tell you that?" while the other one looks, wide-eyed, blankly back at the questioner. Is that possible? you think to yourself ... or, a number of times, we'll be looking at photographs and I'll jump in with, "oh yeah, I took that one..." (waiting for the love-o'-my-life to compliment me on my exposure and cropping abilities) and he'll say, kindly, "um, no, I did." Oh.
And the whole re-telling of a "shared" experience, well, I've listened to my parents tell me about the same experience in totally different ways enough times that apparently, it's rubbed off on my own story telling. Or, so I hear...
Friday, August 8, 2008
I was there too!
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4 comments:
oh that's so good. so good.
this is just absolutely fantastic! thank you for sharing!
one of my favorite This American Life stories ever! it was originally on the radio in an episode called "Reruns", I believe...but the animation makes it even better. thanks!
if you haven't heard all of "Reruns" you should download it, it's awesome. The brilliant John Hodgeman tells a story with his wife as well, and it's hilarious.
love that story and loved seeing the Chris Ware animation with it! thanks for that!
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