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A memo posted inside the Serendra residential complex at Bonifacio on the day of the Eraserheads concert started: “Please be informed that the infamous band Eraserheads…”

What, you didn’t think we riffraff had moles in your establishment?

I passed this on to Serendra’s corporate overlord Jaime Augusto Zobel, who said, “They meant to say ‘the very “in” and famous band.” He added that the first rock concert he ever attended was in London in his teens, headlined by Mott the Hoople (All the Young Dudes) supported by Queen.

Because their boss has a sense of humor and actually set foot in a 70s glam rock concert, we will regard the lackeys’ apparent snobbery as a simple case of bad grammar. For now. Don’t be like that.

While we’re on the subject of language, there was a large crowd at the mall last Saturday, waiting for a visiting band called Boys Like Girls. Just curious: is “like” a verb, as in “Boys like girls”, or a preposition, as in “Boys (who are) like girls”. Which reminds me of that Blur lyric, “Girls who are boys who like boys to be girls who do boys like they’re girls who do girls like they’re boys.” I was pondering this when I passed in front of the menswear store Celio, which was touting its fall collection. (Noel and Ricky chorus in my head: “Like we had seasons.”) The window display contained this admonition: “Fall for men!”