“At a certain point in your life (probably when too much of it has gone by) you will open your eyes and see yourself for who you are. . .especially for everything that made you so different from all the awful Normals. Â And you will say to yourself, ‘But I AM this person.’Â And in that statement – that correction – there will be a kind of love.”
-“Phoebe in Wonderland”
Last night, IrishBand had a great show at a venue called the Virgo and Pisces, and one of my friends drove up from his home on the coast to come see us. He drove to town, got himself situated in his hotel room, and then called a cab to come pick him up. He got a Russian cab driver, with a thick Russian accent.
Driver:Â “Where you want to go?”
Friend:Â “Virgo and Pisces.”
Driver:Â “I do not know these streets.”
Friend: “(takes a beat) Oh, jeez, of course. That’s the venue. THE Virgo and Pisces. (laughs) Twenty-first and Glisan is the intersection.”
Driver: “Oh yes. I know these streets.”
Funny how something so linguistically simple can be completely overlooked and misconstrued sometimes. It’s all about context, which can be found somewhere near the intersection of Virgo and Pisces.
If you know who made this, please let me know so I can give them credit for being the geniuses that they are. This is priceless.
I was poking around on NPR’s web site just now, and found a list of all the usual suspects that you hear regularly, along with their bios and pictures. It’s really interesting. In fact, it’s interesting enough to share.
Click on the logo and it’ll take you to the list.
