Archive for December, 2003

Five fake names for a notional magazine about extreme treadmill exercise

Monday, December 29th, 2003
  1. Goin’ Nowhere
  2. Happy Right Here
  3. Basement Belters
  4. No Vistas
  5. In One Place

Five colleges and why I wanted to attend each

Friday, December 26th, 2003
  1. USC - Had that marching band that played on Tusk (1979)
  2. Florida State - Brochure featured prominent photo of adorable blonde girl dressed like an indian (1984)
  3. Rollins - Heard classes were easy and underaged drinking was widely tolerated (1983)
  4. University of Florida - Orange and blue were my favorite colors, plus alligators are cool (1980)
  5. West Point - Everything seemed so tidy (1978)

Five Terrible Fake Christmas TV Specials

Wednesday, December 24th, 2003
  1. A Scaled-Down Christmas: Going Through the Motions with Martha Stewart
  2. The Town That Forgot to Ship Early
  3. Kazuki Takahashi’s© Yu-Gi-Oh™ Cardtastical Action Holiday Tournament®
  4. Rudolph’s Shiny New Prince Albert
  5. E!’s “Background Noise for Drinking Alone” Marathon

Five things I’d like to teach the world this Christmas

Wednesday, December 24th, 2003
  1. To sing in perfect harmony (naturally)
  2. To use their turn signals
  3. To buy music and t-shirts from bands they like at live shows
  4. To offer their seats on MUNI to old Chinese ladies
  5. To give the whole “white hip-hop guy” thing a rest for a while

Five most depressing “Christmas Gifts” for sale at Walgreens

Wednesday, December 24th, 2003
  1. Fiber Optic Angel (with five-color oscillating ass-wings)
  2. Celine Dion “Parfums”
  3. Neon Guitar Wall Art
  4. Electronic-Eye Santa (joylessly croaking “Ho, ho, ho” when it detects motion)
  5. Advanced Formula Toe Fungus Cream

Five “celebrities” I need you to stop encouraging

Sunday, December 21st, 2003
  1. Tom Arnold
  2. Tony Danza
  3. Kirstie Alley
  4. John Walsh
  5. All prop comics (except Rip Taylor)

Five great reasons to buy a Hummer™

Sunday, December 21st, 2003
  1. You’ve been wanting to buy much wider groceries (but have been stymied by the timid width of your Escalade)
  2. You and your make-believe wife were thinking of having 11 or 12 imaginary kids
  3. You’re sick of always being the environment’s goddamned bitch
  4. You could totally put a keg back there and just drive around and shit
  5. They were all out of penises

Five things I realized later than I probably should have

Sunday, December 21st, 2003
  1. My crappy BSR turntable played everything a full step too fast (1984)
  2. “If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?” is a dirty play on words (1987)
  3. New Order was mostly a disco band who stood very still (1989)
  4. “Expendable” apparently does not mean the same thing as “flexible” (1980)
  5. “Seals & Croft” and “Sid and Marty Krofft” have nothing in particular to do with one other (1978)

Five resolutions for the new year

Wednesday, December 17th, 2003
  1. Stop apologizing for drinking at work
  2. Undertake some kind of faith-based initiative
  3. Start carrying a yoga mat everywhere
  4. Spearhead a trucker cap buy-back initiative
  5. Begin more publicly referring to myself in the third-person as “Daddy.”