Archive for January, 2004

Five words I’d like to hear the Pope use in everyday conversation

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004
  1. crunk
  2. nizzle
  3. Linux
  4. gi-normous
  5. craptacular

Five “Sweeps Week” features coming up on your local late news

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004
  1. Professor Buggery, Ph.D. Can your child’s teachers pass our Pederasty Popquiz?
  2. That’s Not Chocolate! How would you know if there were poo-poo in your family’s candy dish?
  3. Rats, Cats, & Big, Curly Pubic Hairs The filthy truth inside your favorite “Four Star” restaurants
  4. public_humiliation@yourcomputer.com What career-ending secrets are lurking on your family’s hard drive? Is The Government cataloging them right now?
  5. "My Baby’s on Fire!" Find out if your child is one of the hundreds at risk for Spontaneous Toddler Combustion

Five terrible fake names for vibrators

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004
  1. Mommy’s Atrocious Rash-Inducer
  2. Old Spinydrawers
  3. Rod Serling
  4. Short Circuit II
  5. Mr. Limpy

Five favorite things on your blog

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004
  1. The kitty photos (especially that fourth set)
  2. That one post where you were really drunk in Devan’s room
  3. The time you ate that amazing pot pie but then got totally sick
  4. Your series of charcoal drawings of Jonathan Frakes as a sword-wielding furry
  5. That post where you promised to update more often

Five least favorite P.E. activities

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004
  1. climbing the rope
  2. towel snapping
  3. chinups
  4. square-dancing week
  5. surreptitious penis comparisons

Five 45s I loved (1970s)

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004
  1. Queen - “We Will Rock You,” b/w “We are the Champions”
  2. Chic - “Le Freak”
  3. Wings - “Listen to What the Man Said”
  4. Bee Gees - “Too Much Heaven”
  5. Blondie - “Heart of Glass”

Five things I’ve considered arbitrarily becoming very opinionated about

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004
  1. Preference for a given Olsen sister
  2. Brand of water cracker
  3. System for opening the mail
  4. Favorite magazine about NASCAR
  5. Best way to order at the taqueria

Five affectations I’ve been considering

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004
  1. Wearing a monocle
  2. Developing and deploying a complex personal gang sign
  3. Angrily demanding that people call me “Colonel”
  4. Speaking exclusively in terrible cockney rhyming slang
  5. Constantly referring to “my novella”

Five terrible fake names for Greg Kihn albums

Thursday, January 15th, 2004
  1. Kihntankerous
  2. Kihnjoined Twins
  3. Kihn-Tiki
  4. Under Kihnstruction
  5. Kihntucky Rain

Five words I choose not to recognize as verbs

Wednesday, January 14th, 2004
  1. Incentivize
  2. Deplane
  3. Impact
  4. Blog
  5. Party

Five things you could win at the carnival (1983)

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004
  1. Roach clip with feathers
  2. Coarsely grained, oddly hard, stuffed animal
  3. Lynyrd Skynyrd coke mirror
  4. Another throw
  5. Big-ass pink comb

Five articles of clothing that once gave me joy

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004
  1. Painters’ pants worn with ‘Mork’ rainbow suspenders and Dallas Cowboys 3/4-sleeve shirt (1979)
  2. Johnny Bench sneakers (1975)
  3. T-shirt airbrushed with the cover of “Wolverine #1″ comic book (1982)
  4. Hüsker Dü “Metal Circus” t-shirt (1987)
  5. Batman halloween costume (1972)

Five great pieces of housecleaning music

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004
  1. Metallica / Master of Puppets
  2. Sousa / Marches
  3. Beastie Boys / Paul’s Boutique
  4. Laibach / Life is Life
  5. Sonic Youth / Daydream Nation

Five “Brady Bunch” Characters (and what sometimes make me fear I’m a little like each of them)

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004
  1. Peter (throws an elaborate party and no one comes; he stands alone, stiffly, wearing a weird double-breasted suit)
  2. Greg (screws around reading hot rod magazines when he should be working; loses his Dad’s drawings)
  3. Mike (freaks when Natalie Schafer’s guest-starring character wants a factory shaped like a powder puff regardless of how practical it is to build)
  4. Cousin Oliver (jinxes the entire family after awkwardly turning up as a tired plot rejuvenator)
  5. Davy Jones (clearly not sure why he’s there or what he’s expected to be doing; smiles broadly and plays along anyway wearing inexplicable striped pants)

Five of the best songs Michael Ferguson introduced me to

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004
  1. Teenage Fanclub / Everything Flows (1990)
  2. Pylon / Crazy (1986)
  3. The Fall / Victoria (1988)
  4. Drivin’ and Cryin’ / Scarred But Smarter (1987)
  5. The Sugarcubes / Birthday (1988)

Five possible reasons there’s a stretch limo parked outside

Sunday, January 11th, 2004
  1. Japanese businessmen are considering a leveraged buyout of the Sunset District
  2. Little Laotian man around the corner is secretly a rich, hostile pimp
  3. Someone’s about to receive a giant, novelty-sized check from Ed McMahon
  4. The 85-year-old man next door is about to get a Queer Eye makeover
  5. I’m actually Bon Jovi

Five songs I liked to play on the jukebox at the Pizza Inn (1976-’78)

Sunday, January 11th, 2004
  1. David Soul - Don’t Give up on Us, Baby
  2. The Village People - Macho Man
  3. John Travolta - Let Her In
  4. Alan O’Day - Undercover Angel
  5. Meco - Star Wars/Cantina Theme

Five terrible fake names for your new pleasure boat

Friday, January 9th, 2004
  1. Papa’s Li’l Cry for Help
  2. Thar’s Gold in Them Thar Prostates
  3. Your Mom’s Not Coming Home IV
  4. Better’n a Hairweave, Matey
  5. The Boss’s Obsequious Little Bitch

Five items banned in accordance with my junior high handbook

Friday, January 9th, 2004
  1. Faddish, i.e. punk hair-styles
  2. Halter tops and/or bare midriff costumes
  3. Public Display of Affection (PDA)
  4. Shoving, skylarking, and other horseplay
  5. Articles of clothing advertising alcohol, drugs or tobacco

Five tattoos it’s probably better that I don’t have (and where each would go)

Friday, January 9th, 2004
  1. Thompson Twins’ Into the Gap album cover (entire back)
  2. Map of Bayonet Point, FL (face, shaved head)
  3. Cartoon Calvin peeing joyfully on the staff of Pitchfork (upper left arm)
  4. “TALK” & “ROCK” (knuckles of either hand)
  5. Hash mark for each time I’ve seen Cheap Trick (back of neck; currently 5)