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Cuando era niño…

Cuando era niño andaba en bici por todo Córdoba, desde la galletera hasta el campestre con Rudy y Lázaro.

Cuando era niño jugaba futbol toda la tarde en el casino y me decían el pollito.

Cuando era niño no soportaba que me pusieran a barrer las hojas del jardín, hoy daría cualquier cosa por tener un jardín.

Cuando era niño llegaba una hora antes a la escuela y salía dos horas después para poder jugar basket.

Cuando era niño me encantaban las celebraciones, hoy parecen un día como cualquier otro.

Cuando era niño veía con fascinación una colección de 7 cartuchos de Atari.

Cuando era niño me gustaba pasar la noche en casa de la abuela Yaya porque me compraba sabritas y me acostaba tarde a las 9PM.

Cuando era niño cazaba ranas en la orilla del río San Antonio y las aventaba a la alberca.

Cuando era niño sabía nadar mejor que ahora.

Cuando era niño podía ver todos los días el mismo episodio de He-Man sin aburrirme.

Cuando era niño me escabullía atras de la puerta para oir que decían mis papás acerca de mi cuando me había metido en problemas.

Cuando era niño podía maullar mejor que cualquiera que saliera en Corre GC Corre.

Cuando era niño tenía una alianza con los grandulones de grupo para pasarles copia y así controlábamos a todo el salón y nadie se metía conmigo.

Cuando era niño me gustaba aventarme a las montañas de café en los asoleaderos.

Cuando era niño metía la mitad del cuerpo en un barril de maíz en Fortín.

Cuando era niño le tenía terror y odio a la maestra Lucía, hoy me da tristeza.

Cuando era niño todo el jardín se convertía en una nave espacial.

Cuando era niño construía ciudades de Tente y Playmobil con mi hermano y luego las destruía con una lluvia de meteoritos.

Cuando era niño jugaba con Pico y Poqui en el fraccionamiento.

Cuando era niño alimentaba a los pollos con arañas.

Cuando era niño pasaba horas en casa de Claudia, Carolina y Rossella mientras las mamás tomaban café

Cuando era niño mordía la cabecera de madera de la cama.

Cuando era niño quería ser Hermano de La Salle y poder hablar en francés.

Cuando era niño iba a ojo de agua a desayunar los fines de con mis papás y mi tía.

Cuando era niño contestaba mal los exámenes de selección de la SEP para que no me mandaran a los concursos de las escuelas de gobierno.

Cuando era niño nos íbamos en la tarde a jugar a la alameda.

Cuando era niño nunca hacía calor ni tampoco frío.

Cuando era niño me gustaba perderme en los cañaverales con el perro de mi abuelo “El oso” y que después me cortaran un pedazo de caña para masticarla.

Cuando era niño no entendía porqué las caricaturas se veían diferentes de las películas con personas de verdad.

Cuando era niño aprendí a tocar piano por mi propia cuenta.

Cuando era niño creía que el Distrito Federal tenía mar y que se llamaba Golfo de México.

Cuando era niño mi abuelo fabricaba juguetes increíbles con globos, latas, tornillos y pedazos de alambres.

Cuando era niño armé un control remoto para prender y apagar las luces y el ventilador de mi cuarto.

Cuando era niño me escapaba del kinder en Posada Loma y me iba a la cocina del hotel por migajas de pan para alimentar a los peces.

Cuando era niño jugábamos con los trenes miniatura en el rancho del papá de Virgilio.

Cuando era niño el presidente municipal regaló a mi escuela un bote de basura con cabeza de pelícano y creía que era el mejor regalo del mundo.

Cuando era niño prendía fuego a los llanos de Shangri-lá junto con Daniel.

Cuando era niño estaba seguro que nunca me iba a gustar la cerveza.

Cuando era niño vi a una araña construir un nido y un día ver que se la comían todas sus crías.

Cuando era niño dormía con un oso de peluche.

Cuando era niño no podía esperar en ser grande.

Cuando crecí todo lo que quiero es ser niño.

What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.

-Andy Warhol.

El servicio en sucursal de Banamex no solo es ridículamente malo, sino que sus gerentes son unos completos imbéciles sin sentido común.

Si tienes 5 cuentas, en diferentes sucursales, en diferentes ciudades, y necesitas un trámite entre ellas, ¿Cómo se les ocurre que se tiene que hacer por partes y además en cada una de sus sucursales de origen? NO JODAN!

¿Alguien sabe de algún banco en México que sea al menos mediocremente “decente”?

Sin comentarios…

Our emotional state of choice is Ecstasy. Our nourishment of choice is Love. Our addiction of choice is technology. Our religion of choice is music. Our currency of choice is knowledge. Our politics of choice is none. Our society of choice is utopian though we know it will never be. You may hate us. You may dismiss us. You may misunderstand us. You may be unaware of our existence. We can only hope you do not care to judge us, because we would never judge you. We are not criminals. We are not disillusioned. We are not drug addicts. We are not naive children… We are one massive, global, tribal village that transcends man-made law, physical geography, and time itself. We are The Massive. One Massive. We were first drawn by the sound. From far away, the thunderous, muffled, echoing beat was comparable to a mother’s heart soothing a child in her womb of concrete, steel, and electrical wiring. We were drawn back into this womb, and there, in the heat, dampness, and darkness of it, We came to accept that we are all equal. Not only to the darkness, and to ourselves, but to the very music slamming into us and passing through our souls: we are all equal. And somewhere around 35 Hz we could feel the hand of God at our backs, pushing us forward, pushing us to push ourselves to strengthen our minds, our bodies, and our spirits., Pushing us to turn to the person beside us to join hands and uplift them by sharing the uncontrollable joy we felt from creating this magical bubble that can, for one evening, protect us from the horrors, atrocities, and pollution of the outside world. It is in that very instant, with these initial realizations that each of us was truly born. We continue to pack our bodies into clubs, or warehouses, or buildings you’ve abandoned and left for naught, and we bring life to them for one night. Strong, throbbing, vibrant life in it’s purest, most intense, most hedonistic form. In these makeshift spaces, we seek to shed ourselves of the burden of uncertainty for a future you have been unable to stabilize and secure for us. We seek to relinquish our inhibitions, and free ourselves from the shackle’s and restraints you’ve put on us for your own peace of mind. We seek to re-write the programming that you have tried to indoctrinate us with since the moment we were born. Programming that tells us to hate, that tells us to judge, that tells us to stuff ourselves into the nearest and most convenient pigeon hole possible. Programming that even tells us to climb ladders for you, jump through hoops, and run through mazes and on hamster wheels. Programming that tells us to eat from the shiny silver spoon you are trying to feed us with, instead of nourish ourselves with our own capable hands. Programming that tells us to close our minds, instead of open them. Until the sun rises to burn our eyes by revealing the dis-utopian reality of a world you’ve created for us, we dance fiercely with our brothers and sisters in celebration of our life, of our culture, and of the values we believe in: Peace, Love, Freedom, Tolerance, Unity, Harmony, Expression, Responsibility and Respect. Our enemy of choice is ignorance. Our weapon of choice is information. Our crime of choice is breaking and challenging whatever laws you feel you need to put in place to stop us from celebrating our existence. But know that while you may shut down any given party, on any given night, in any given city, in any given country or continent on this beautiful planet, you can never shut down the entire party. You don’t have access to that switch, no matter what you may think. The music will never stop. The heartbeat will never fade. The party will never end.

I am a raver, and this is my manifesto.

If you love it, let it go. If it comes back to you it is yours, if not, go hunt it and kill it.

1. “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”—Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004

2. “I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.”—Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000

3. “Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?”—Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

4. “Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across the country.”—Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004

5. “Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican.”—declining to answer reporters’ questions at the Summit of the Americas, Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001

6. “You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.”—Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001

7. “I’m the decider, and I decide what is best. And what’s best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense.”—Washington, D.C., April 18, 2006

8. “See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”—Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005

9. “I’ve heard he’s been called Bush’s poodle. He’s bigger than that.”—discussing former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as quoted by the Sun newspaper, June 27, 2007

10. “And so, General, I want to thank you for your service. And I appreciate the fact that you really snatched defeat out of the jaws of those who are trying to defeat us in Iraq.”—meeting with Army Gen. Ray Odierno, Washington, D.C., March 3, 2008

11. “We ought to make the pie higher.”—South Carolina Republican debate, Feb. 15, 2000

12. “There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, fool me once, shame on—shame on you. Fool me—you can’t get fooled again.”—Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

13. “And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I’m sorry it’s the case, and I’ll work hard to try to elevate it.”—speaking on National Public Radio, Jan. 29, 2007

14. “We’ll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.”—Houston, Sept. 6, 2000

15. “It’s important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It’s not only life of babies, but it’s life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.”—Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000

16. “One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”—U.S. News & World Report, Jan. 3, 2000

17. “People say, ‘How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil?’ You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in’s house and say I love you.”—Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002

18. “Well, I think if you say you’re going to do something and don’t do it, that’s trustworthiness.”—CNN online chat, Aug. 30, 2000

19. “I’m looking forward to a good night’s sleep on the soil of a friend.”—on the prospect of visiting Denmark, Washington, D.C., June 29, 2005

20. “I think it’s really important for this great state of baseball to reach out to people of all walks of life to make sure that the sport is inclusive. The best way to do it is to convince little kids how to—the beauty of playing baseball.”—Washington, D.C., Feb. 13, 2006

21. “Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.”—LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

22. “You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war president. No president wants to be a war president, but I am one.”—Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 26, 2006

23. “There’s a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, ‘I don’t want you to let me down again.’ “—Boston, Oct. 3, 2000

24. “They misunderestimated me.”—Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

25. “I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.”—Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008

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