<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7095286</id><updated>2011-04-21T20:23:22.265-07:00</updated><title type='text'>From the Necessarium</title><subtitle type='html'>"El mundo está dividido entre los que cagan bien y los que cagan mal".&lt;br&gt;
"There are two types of people in the world: those who shit well, and those who shit poorly."</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05267450120377536413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>18</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7095286.post-111726191804689144</id><published>2005-05-27T22:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-11-24T05:17:14.046-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Oriente vs. Occidente</title><content type='html'>O.k., sean francas, chicas. El inodoro de estilo chino -un hueco en el piso, con sistema de desague, por supuesto - no les gusta simplemente porque no lo saben usar, porque si supieran cuál es la posición correcta de uso y no andaran salpicándose los pies tendrían que admitir que esos &lt;em&gt;baños orientales,&lt;/em&gt; que miran con tanto desprecio y que sospecho las hace creerse privilegiadas de ser occidentales, resultan a fin de cuentas más higiénicos que los water-tazas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por otro lado, la improbable conversión de occidente al uso del water-hueco podría incluso ser ecológicamente positiva ya que al despojarnos del temor-asco-incomodidad de poner el culo donde ya otras tantas personas pusieron sus respectivos y variopintos culos, no haría falta gastar papel en cubrir la taza del también llamado retrete.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Claro que para largos minutos de cague, esos que son fuente de grandes ideas (como estas) o que suelen acompañarse de frugales lecturas en la tranquilidad del baño del hogar - en donde sólo cagan culos conocidos, quiero decir, de personas conocidas - me quedo con el water taza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O.k. ahora sí, ya lo tengo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TODO EL MUNDO, Oriente y Occidente sería mucho mejor si:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. En casa utilizamos water-taza.&lt;br /&gt;2. En baños públicos utilizamos el baño hueco. (En oficinas con una tasa de densidad poblacional baja podría evaluarse la factibilidad del uso occidental caso por caso).&lt;br /&gt;3. Reservamos los cagues largos y parejos para la intimidad del hogar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...aaaah, qué viva el intercambio cultural!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7095286-111726191804689144?l=thenecessarium.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/111726191804689144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/111726191804689144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/2005/05/oriente-vs-occidente.html' title='Oriente vs. Occidente'/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05267450120377536413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7095286.post-109411097822585828</id><published>2004-09-02T01:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-05-27T23:41:35.283-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ritos</title><content type='html'>Cada mañana, camino a la oficina, veo a unos doce o quince peluqueros en sus batas azules, con peines negros y tijeras de acero en mano, practicando, repazando, mejorando o aprendiendo movimientos nuevos sobre cabezas imaginarias. La verdad no tengo claro el objetivo. No me he detenido a mirarlos lo sucifiente, a veces por respeto, porque temo que se me escape una sonrisa burlona. Otras veces por compasión, porque deben saber de nuestras risas. Pero hoy fue puro temor. Lo que no sé es si es temor hacia el malvado que los obliga a cumplir con el rito cada mañana o a descubrir en todo ello una alegoría de la propia vida o, peor aún, sólo de la mía.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7095286-109411097822585828?l=thenecessarium.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/109411097822585828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/109411097822585828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/2004/09/ritos.html' title='Ritos'/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05267450120377536413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7095286.post-109091390695117798</id><published>2004-07-27T00:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-07-27T18:24:31.063-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Calvino lo sabía / Calvino knew it</title><content type='html'>Intent on piling up its carats of perfection, Beersheba takes for virtue what is now a grim mania to fill the empty vessel of itself; the city does not know that its only moments of generous abandon are those when it becomes detached from itself, when it lets go, expands. Still, at the zenith of Beersheba there gravitates a celestial body that shines with all the city's riches, enclosed in the treasury of cast-off things: a planet a-flutter with potato peelings, broken umbrellas, old socks, candy wrappings, paved with tram tickets, fingernail cuttings and pared callouses, eggshells. This is the celestial city, and in its heavens long-tailed comets fly past, release to rotate in space from the only free and happy action of the citizens of Beersheba, a city which, only when it shits, is not miserly, calculating, greedy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;em&gt;Invisible Cities&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por eso, aquí queremos que todo suena como si viniera directamente &lt;em&gt;From the Necessarium&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which is why we want everything here to sound as though it came directly &lt;em&gt;From the Necessarium.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7095286-109091390695117798?l=thenecessarium.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/109091390695117798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/109091390695117798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/2004/07/calvino-lo-saba-calvino-knew-it.html' title='Calvino lo sabía / Calvino knew it'/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05267450120377536413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7095286.post-109068500583426532</id><published>2004-07-15T20:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-07-24T18:49:35.156-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Little hair bows.</title><content type='html'>One day he decided that he could earn a little extra money making hair bows for little girls. He bought pink ribbons, white ribbons, sky-blue ribbons, light green ribbons, and several meters of white lace ribbon. He made a few hundred bows while watching television; then his wife found out about the project, and laughed in his face at the thought of his new business venture.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; To this very day there are two big white bags that travel eternally from one closet to another, from one drawer to another, through the now mainly uninhabited rooms of the house. One bag holds the few hundred bows that the young Marine managed to finish during his brief incursion into the world of child fashion accessories; the other holds the rolls of ribbon and lace that were never made into delicate bows one centimeter wide and three centimeters long.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Only today did it occur to the daughter of that Marine that the next time she comes across those bows, she will sew them all over a nightgown, which will from then on be her favorite nightgown of all.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; All of this has been written to keep her from forgetting to do so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7095286-109068500583426532?l=thenecessarium.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/109068500583426532'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/109068500583426532'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/2004/07/little-hair-bows.html' title='Little hair bows.'/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05267450120377536413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7095286.post-108994801846528590</id><published>2004-07-15T19:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-07-15T20:20:18.466-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lacitos</title><content type='html'>Un día le pareció que podía ganar un poco más de dinero haciendo lacitos para niñas. Compró cintas rosadas, blancas, celestes y verde agua y varios metros más de blondas. Hizo un par de cientos mientras miraba la televisión antes de que su esposa se enterara de su proyecto y se riera en su cara de su nuevo negocio. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hasta ahora hay dos grandes bolsas blancas que rebotan de un lado al otro por los closets y cajones de las habitaciones ahora deshabitadas de la casa. Una contiene el par de cientos de lacitos de colores que alcanzó a hacer aquel infante de marina mientras duró su incursión en el mundo de la moda infantil; la otra, guarda los rollos de cinta y de blonda que no llegaron a convertirse en esos delicados lacitos de 1 c.m. de alto por 3 c.m. de largo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sólo hoy se le ha ocurrido a su hija que la próxima vez que se tope con ellos los pegará todos en una camiseta, que desde entonces será su favorita.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y esto lo he escrito para que no se olvide.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7095286-108994801846528590?l=thenecessarium.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108994801846528590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108994801846528590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/2004/07/lacitos.html' title='Lacitos'/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05267450120377536413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7095286.post-109068434021455153</id><published>2004-07-05T20:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-07-24T08:52:20.213-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Bodyguards</title><content type='html'>When she was younger it didn't seem illogical to her that the Pope and the President of the Republic would be one and the same person;  nor that her much-loved grandmother, who couldn't carry a tune, would be her country's most highly adored singer of all times;  nor did it seem illogical that her mother, never an actress of any sort, should be the protagonist of the most popular soap opera on television at the time;  nor that her brother, never a model of any sort, would appear all over the place in advertisements for the products of Johnson &amp; Johnson.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; And because of all this, she found herself crying a few years later when the proceedings of democracy sent her beloved President packing;  and in the midst of her tears, she nonetheless felt a great deal of pride at seeing the multitude that attended the funeral of her "adopted" grandfather; and through it all she watched that soap opera religiously, the hour each day when her mother appeared to suffer greatly on behalf of her children, whom the girl had strangely never met, and on behalf of a man who, well, it wasn't even quite clear exactly who he was.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It must have been the confusion born of the conflict between the parallel worlds in which she lived for so many years that somehow blocked from her mind the fact of the constant presence of the men who lived in her real-world house and took her to real-world school each day;  somehow, said confusion kept her from ever wondering about them in the least until the morning she arrived at school and was confronted at the door by one of her 9th or 10th grade classmates:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; - So who exactly who is your father?&lt;br /&gt; She understood that it wasn't exactly her father's name that interested the classmate.&lt;br /&gt; - He's nobody in particular, she answered.&lt;br /&gt; - So why do you have bodyguards?&lt;br /&gt; - I don't have any bod-- she began, as she turned around to look at the three men who accompanied her to school each morning.  - Oh.  I don't actually know.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; And with that she forgot about the whole matter completely for several more years.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7095286-109068434021455153?l=thenecessarium.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/109068434021455153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/109068434021455153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/2004/07/bodyguards.html' title='Bodyguards'/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05267450120377536413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7095286.post-108995010623108165</id><published>2004-07-05T20:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-07-15T20:55:06.230-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Guardaespaldas</title><content type='html'>Cuando era más chica no le pareció ilógico que hubiera una conexión sustancial entre el señor Presidente de la República y el Santo Padre, y entre su adorada abuela y la cantante más adorada de todo el país de todos los tiempos, ni que su madre, sin ser actriz, fuera la protagonista de la novela más popular del momento y su hermano, el niño cuyo rostro estaba por todos lados en los anuncios de J&amp;J.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por eso, tuvo que llorar cuando al cabo de algunos años la democracia mandó a su señor Presidente de la República a su casa y, en medio de su tristeza, sintió gran orgullo al ver a la multitud que despidió a su abuela adoptiva durante su funeral. Por eso, miró religiosamente cada tarde durante una hora aquella novela en que su mamá parecía sufrir mucho por unos hijos que no conocía y un hombre que no tenía muy claro quién era.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deben haber sido las reminiscencias de los mundos paralelos en los que vivió tantos años las que evitaron que la presencia constante de todos esos hombres en su casa y cada mañana camino al colegio, no despertara en ella la menor preocupación hasta esa mañana al llegar al colegio y encontrarse con uno de sus compañeros de segundo o tercero de secundaria en la puerta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Quién es tu papá?&lt;br /&gt;Ella percibió que no era el nombre lo que le  interesaba.&lt;br /&gt;- Nadie - respondió.&lt;br /&gt;- Y por qué tienes guardaespaldas?&lt;br /&gt;- Yo no tengo...- respondió mientras volteaba a mirar a los 3 hombres que la acompañaban al colegio cada mañana. - No sé. - concluyó y se olvidó del tema por varios años más.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7095286-108995010623108165?l=thenecessarium.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108995010623108165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108995010623108165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/2004/07/guardaespaldas.html' title='Guardaespaldas'/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05267450120377536413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7095286.post-108821761649719075</id><published>2004-06-21T19:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-25T19:40:16.496-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hueco</title><content type='html'>Así que ahí tienes un hueco, y pones cosas en él, un libro, por decir, y luego un poco de &lt;em&gt;bourbon&lt;/em&gt;. Ahora tienes un hueco con un libro mojado en él. Así que le pones más cosas, un televisor, palos de golf, un poco más de &lt;em&gt;bourbon&lt;/em&gt;, otro libro, un lapicero y algo de papel, una pelota de fútbol. Un poco más de &lt;em&gt;bourbon&lt;/em&gt;. No está resultando. El hueco no está menos lleno. Así que ahora haces lo que debiste hacer desde un comienzo: mirar la pared y esperar a que sea pasadomañana. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y esto del coronel de García Marquez: "Los paraguas tienen algo que ver con la muerte."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7095286-108821761649719075?l=thenecessarium.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108821761649719075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108821761649719075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/2004/06/hueco_21.html' title='Hueco'/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05267450120377536413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7095286.post-108783427417964168</id><published>2004-06-21T09:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-21T09:11:14.180-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hole</title><content type='html'>So there's this hole, and you put things in it, a book, say, and then some bourbon.  Now you have a hole with a wet book in it.  So you put more things in, a television, golf clubs, some more bourbon, another book, a pen and some paper, a football.  Some more bourbon.  It's not helping.  The hole isn't any less empty.  So now you do what you should have done all along:  stare at the wall and wait for the day after tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this from Garcia Marquez's colonel:  "Umbrellas have something to do with death."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7095286-108783427417964168?l=thenecessarium.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108783427417964168'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108783427417964168'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/2004/06/hole.html' title='Hole'/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05267450120377536413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7095286.post-10875152057000679</id><published>2004-06-17T16:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-21T09:21:44.563-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Reloj, etc.</title><content type='html'>Ahora tengo un cubo de madera. Hay un reloj en una de las caras, y un termómetro en la otra y un higrómetro en la otra y nada en la otra. Gira sobre su base. No recuerdo la última vez en que necesité saber cuanto habia de humedad relativa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Encima del cubo de madera hay un pequeño globo de cristal. Puedes hacerlo rotar y girar, lo cual es por lo menos una opción más de lo que necesito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aún no está del todo claro si me gusta mi cubo de madera o si "me gusta". Cuando lo sepa a ciencia cierta se los diré. It&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7095286-10875152057000679?l=thenecessarium.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/10875152057000679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/10875152057000679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/2004/06/reloj-etc.html' title='Reloj, etc.'/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05267450120377536413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7095286.post-108746690099950432</id><published>2004-06-17T03:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-17T03:08:21.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Clock, etc.</title><content type='html'>I have now a cube of wood.  There is a clock set in one side, and a thermometer set in another side, and a hygrometer set in another side, and nothing set in another side.  It spins on its base.  I cannot remember the last time I needed to know the relative humidity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Above the cube of wood is a small crystal globe.  It can be made to rotate and revolve.  This is at least one option more than I require.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not yet clear whether I like my cube of wood, or "like" it.  When I know for sure, I will tell you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7095286-108746690099950432?l=thenecessarium.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108746690099950432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108746690099950432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/2004/06/clock-etc.html' title='Clock, etc.'/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05267450120377536413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7095286.post-108746525399186937</id><published>2004-06-10T22:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-17T16:21:24.936-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hokosawa Paper</title><content type='html'>That's how I'll have to be, taut and tough, like Hokosawa paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order for the rest of the day not to be ruined when I see a kid crying because his parents are screaming at each other in the middle of the street.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It remains to be seen whether I'll be able to survive exposure to the sun, or to the freezing showers, to the dry air of a Japanese winter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think maybe I'm doomed to be wax paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At least I'll never be a languid sheet of bond, much less a sheet of standard A4.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe what I really am is sheet of recycled scrap paper, and what I really want is to be regular typing paper.  Any kind.  Like the ones my friends sent me in primary school, like the ones my grandmother used for his letters to me, like the paper of the only letter my father ever sent me, like the paper you use when you write me, my love.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7095286-108746525399186937?l=thenecessarium.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108746525399186937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108746525399186937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/2004/06/hokosawa-paper.html' title='Hokosawa Paper'/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05267450120377536413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7095286.post-108693114841380469</id><published>2004-06-10T21:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-10T22:19:08.413-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Papel de Hokosawa </title><content type='html'>Así tendría que ser yo, duro y bien tensado, como un papel de Hokosawa. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para no malograrme el resto del día al ver un niño llorar porque sus padres se agarran a gritos en plena calle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero habría que ver si resisto los baños de agua helada y la exposición al sol y al aire seco del invierno japonés.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creo que estoy condenado a ser papel mantequilla. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al menos nunca seré una lánguida hoja bon, mucho menos A4.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tal vez lo que realmente soy es una hoja bulk y lo que quiero ser es papel carta. Cualquiera. Como el que me mandaban mis amigas en la primaria, como el de las cartas que escribía mi abuela, como el de la única carta que me mandó mi padre, como el de las que me enviabas tú, mi amor.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7095286-108693114841380469?l=thenecessarium.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108693114841380469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108693114841380469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/2004/06/papel-de-hokosawa.html' title='Papel de Hokosawa '/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05267450120377536413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7095286.post-108566828067858832</id><published>2004-05-27T07:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-05-27T07:31:20.676-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Samba</title><content type='html'>La samba debería ser siempre como el sexo, solo que con música más alta y mejor coreografía. Anoche, sin embargo, había un tipo en su traje mezcla de avestruz y pavorreal, bello, 12 pies de altura y otros 12 de ancho de hermosas plumas blancas, negras y grises, pero el traje empezó a caerse y nuestros estómagos se tensaron, y él bailaba y el traje se inclinaba un poco más, él seguía bailando y el traje se seguía inclinando, y él apenas podía mantenerse erguido y nuestros estómagos se tensaron cada vez más hasta que tuvimos que salir por un cigarro, sin que tampoco lo hayamos disfrutado como se suele hacer después de.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moraleja del día: Verifica siempre los broches de tu traje de plumas.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7095286-108566828067858832?l=thenecessarium.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108566828067858832'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108566828067858832'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/2004/05/samba_27.html' title='Samba'/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05267450120377536413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7095286.post-10856659368780297</id><published>2004-05-27T06:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-05-27T07:13:21.196-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Samba</title><content type='html'>Samba should always be like sex, only with louder music, and better choreography.  Last night, though, a guy in his feather-suit, beautiful, ostrich and peacock, an arc twelve feet high and twelve feet wide of gorgeous white and black and gray, but then it started to slip, and our stomachs tensed, and he danced and it slipped and he danced and it slipped and he barely stayed upright and our stomachs got tenser and tenser until we had to go outside for a cigarette, and not in a good way, either.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moral of the Day:  Always double-check the snaps on your feather-suit.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7095286-10856659368780297?l=thenecessarium.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/10856659368780297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/10856659368780297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/2004/05/samba.html' title='Samba'/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05267450120377536413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7095286.post-108557290750229282</id><published>2004-05-26T05:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-05-27T07:08:34.916-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/640/5.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am John. Yo soy John.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7095286-108557290750229282?l=thenecessarium.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108557290750229282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108557290750229282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/2004/05/i-am-john_26.html' title=''/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05267450120377536413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7095286.post-108554118610998230</id><published>2004-05-25T20:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-05-26T05:14:01.623-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Necessarium, El Necessarium</title><content type='html'>Porque &lt;a href="http://www.opengroup.com/libros/0120/9681/9681315472.shtml"&gt;una vez leí &lt;/a&gt;que "El mundo está dividido entre los que cagan bien y los que cagan mal"; y, modestia aparte, hasta la fecha sigo pensando que soy de los primeros.&lt;br /&gt;::&lt;br /&gt;Because &lt;a href="http://www.opengroup.com/libros/0120/9681/9681315472.shtml"&gt;I once read &lt;/a&gt;that "There are two types of people in this world:  those who shit well, and those who shit poorly," and, false modesty aside, to this very day I believe that I am among the former.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7095286-108554118610998230?l=thenecessarium.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108554118610998230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108554118610998230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/2004/05/necessarium-el-necessarium.html' title='The Necessarium, El Necessarium'/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05267450120377536413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7095286.post-108566533799447098</id><published>2004-05-24T06:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-05-27T07:10:05.716-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/640/toiletsign.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/toiletsign.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instructions for using this blog. Instrucciones para usar este blog.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7095286-108566533799447098?l=thenecessarium.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108566533799447098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7095286/posts/default/108566533799447098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thenecessarium.blogspot.com/2004/05/instructions-for-using-this-blog.html' title=''/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05267450120377536413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/189/998/320/5.jpg'/></author></entry></feed>
