He got married at 102!

I watched this TED talk by Marc Pacher about his work on an interview series called 'Living Portraits' . He decided to only interview elderly people because he thought it was interesting to see what a person says when they already know how the story turns out. How the most important party of an interview is not their youthful energy (which is what our culture feeds off of, but their life-force (that's what the title is about, this guy whose life-force, Marc says, is so powerful that he gets married at 102). He talked about creating empathy with the interviewee and yada yada yada. But what I thought was most interesting was that his main job was to convince people to allow him to ask the question that they've been waiting their whole lives for someone to ask. The answer that they have never really revealed. I thought that was facinating, that the purpose of the interviewer is not to get their questions answered but to ask the interviewee's questions for them. Anyway here's his pitcha!

Okay so there was this adventure...

And I don't want to talk about it.


BUT ALL SQUIRRELS ASIDE.
It started out on a subway, like most computer assignments do. I tried to be super slick and take a picture of these guys on the subway, but allegedly they knew about it. (which means according to Calvin)
We got out at Lombard-South and before we knew it we were on an adventure! We walked past Harry's Occult Shop and a copious amount of African Hair Braiding and Rastafarian storefronts. Calvin counted 3 'Yvette's African Hair Braiding"s alone
Not one, not two, but THREE Yvette's!
Meanwhile, my toes were getting cold, so we stopped off at Wallgreen's to get some good sock lovin' AND BOY DID WE. I got Valentine's socks for $1.99 which have hearts and say 'I'm too sexy' on them. And now, with these socks, IT'S TRUE!
So that was one great thing, another was we went to the Magic Garden, whose incredibility= unexplainable!
This crazy Philadelphia guy basically just liked mosaics and decided to make one, only EVERYWHERE.
It's ridiculously cool, it has all these crazy bottles and bike wheels and tiles embedded into the walls and there are multiple levels and mirrors everywhere, and boy just get your hot little hands on 4 dollars and head on down there because it sure is great. The only thing was, this guy was legit crazy, like he went to an insane asylum actually crazy. Which makes all his nonsensical, compiled-of-all-different-things, kind of raunchy art building make a little more sense... but not a whole lot.
Anyway, so after that we wanted to go to AIDs thrift, only I couldn't remember where it was so we got lost. But then it was fine because a woman heard me mention it and showed us where to go! (which may or may not have been a block and a half in the other direction and while we turned that way I may or may not have almost gotten run down by 2 seperate bikers... but who knows for sure?) In the end, AIDs thrift was a really great idea because I got a pot holder for (count it!) 12 CENTS. And Calvin got a really ugly tie (?) BECAUSE it was supremely ugly (?!?)
Men.
So then we limped back to the subway (after and only after I got some 3 dollar mittens to keep my handses warm) and here I am today.