restroom | restroom
Jul.27.2012
On the ferry from Okayama to Shodoshima, I walked into a room not meant for me. The sight of a urinal was a huge clue that things were not quite right. Fortunately, no one else was around.
I backed out sheepishly and glanced at the sign on the door:
I understood お手洗い (おてあらい) as "bathroom," or...
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Nov.03.2011
Why is there no polite word that is truly descriptive for one of the few places I can read in peace these days?
I mean, don’t go the restroom because I’m tired.
Trying to have a bath in an airport bathroom doesn't bear thinking about.
Toilet is just some French word that came from “toile” a...
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Sep.29.2009
I work in an office with about thirty other people at HarperOne (a platoon of HarperCollins, a company of NewsCorp, a battalion of Rupert Murdoch Media-Growth Opportunities Unlimited, a regiment of China, Inc.). In the course of a month, I enter every room and cube in our office. I am not always...
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Jul.17.2009
I have discovered something wonderful from the response to my toilet blog: the world of the bathroom is much larger than I ever realized. All these years I have been sitting there thinking I leaned pretty much all I needed to know about the toilet when I was two or three years old. What a fool I...
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Jul.15.2009
Starbucks in Paris. McDonalds in Verona. The Gap in Milan. Coca Cola and Ikea on every continent. A world that grows more corporate, predictable, and monochromatic every day. Everywhere we turn there is a sameness to the food we eat, the books and news we read, the movies and television we watch,...
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