Two quotes for today: The first, a girl's voice in the midst of some
techno-ambient music playing in the "Heroes" comic shop of Palo Alto
(I ducked in briefly en route to the doctor's office)
I saw "Xanadu" <1>
And I had to skate
"I'd have to say my favorite food is chicken enchiladas - but I like sushi too"This was actually just an introduction to an interview with the chef of what they claimed was his favorite restaurant in DC: "Red Sage", a place I've walked around inside of, but never eaten at.
My last sentence reminds me of that incorrect and prissy rule some
people embrace: "Never end a sentence with a preposition." (The same
people who've told me this is true have also insist that two spaces
are required after a period, something I think they pick up in typing
class.) The trouble with the preposition rule is it's unrealistically
restrictive - and the great example refuting it is the following anecdote:
The little boy saw his father coming upstairs with the Australia book and saidCount 'em - it ends with five prepositions. And how else to say it?
"What're you bringing that book about Down Under up for?"
Told the pulmonologist of my cancerous fears, and
he zipped me off to the X-ray with a doubting scoff. He's doubling the
dosage of my cortisone asthma medication. During the ritual pre-visit weighing and blood-pressure
taking I noticed that the scale was metric (and I weigh 85 kilos). A spirited
discussion then occurred between me and the almost-elderly registered nurse
taking my numbers, about 'merican vs. Metric. She's still not used to it and
always consulting the conversion chart to make sure.