Jottings from the Granite Studio

I saw this too late to include it in the Friday Happy Hour but it’s worth posting. In a fabulous profile of Red Sox outfielder Manny Ramirez in this week’s New Yorker, Ben McGrath quotes the man-child slugger as saying:

“I like to travel, man,” he said. “I been to Europe—you know, Spain. Dominican, Aruba, Costa Rica. Just to learn about different cultures. You know where I want to go? I want to go to China. I want to go and see—it’s a city that I don’t know how to say the name. It’s the Prohibit City?” He meant the Forbidden City, in Beijing. “I saw it on the History Channel. They do a lot of tours over there.””

God love it. Manny in Beijing. As if the locals didn’t think lao wai were crazy enough…