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- Five Musicians to Whom I’ve Drunkenly Introduced Myself
- Five things we should clear up
- Five extremely minor characters
- Five terrible fake X-Men franchises
- Five things that rarely indicate the beginning of a world-class blog comment
- Five names that sound like they have too many syllables
- Five superpowers I promise would use only for good
- Five cool baby names based on U.S. presidents
- Five Obvious Raymond Carver Jokes
- Five reasons 5ives was down for two years
- Five terrible fake panics obsessing parents of teens
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- Five guitarists who can rock the three-note solo
- Five nice perks of becoming an OT-VII
- Five popular remodeling projects in Northern California
- Five things the lady standing outside the window at the Today Show, holding a cardboard sign with a picture of a kitten she cut out of Parade Magazine, is thinking about right now
- Five menu items at Silver Spoon Thai that could also be the name of an unsuccessful sex worker
- Five terrible fake Mitch Albom books
- Five excellent fake names I’ve never found a place to use
- Five inanimate objects that frequently seem annoyed with me
- Five terrible fake Jane Austen novels
- Five rejected names for Austin BBQ restaurants
- Five records I wish I could have sung backup on
- Five occupations whose uniform I think I’d enjoy wearing
- Five things that should be issued to every American on his or her 14th birthday
- Five unusual Top Chef production crew titles
- Five poetic phrases culled from Joe McConnell’s Bay Area radio traffic report
- Five rejected titles for the latest Coldplay record
- Five rejected names for a single-serving meal product
- Five ways to leverage the mobile thinkosphere
- Five “Web 2.0” ways to break up with your boyfriend
- Five terrible fake astronomical pickup lines
- Five rejected names for “Cooter” on The Dukes of Hazzard
- Five cues that Robert Plant is ready to have sexual intercourse with you
- Five more terrible fake reality TV shows
- Five subtle changes in the event that Microsoft acquires Yahoo!
- Five names you can belch
- Five ways Angelina Jolie can quickly acquire more children
- Five ways you’re unleashing the power of your blog
- Five terrible fake Sylvester Stallone franchise revivals
- Five presentation tips for delivering your Internet Manifesto
- Five terrible fake names for villages in England
- Five historical blog posts
- Five surprising things George Washington Carver made from peanuts
- Five legal concepts I’m pretty sure I first learned from watching The People’s Court
- Five more terrible fake euphemisms for defecating (based on The Godfather series)
- Five things I still don’t really understand
- Five more Halloween costumes your sorority sisters are considering
- Five pieces of fiction I’d enjoy hearing Wilford Brimley read aloud to me
- Five rejected Spice Girl personalities
- Five phrases I often find disorienting
- Five Senators or Representatives whom I wish would become partners in a law firm (just for the awesome letterhead)
- Five songs I’d love to hear a couple use for the first dance at their wedding reception
- Five products on whose label Rachael Ray will eventually be featured, grinning maniacally
- Five titles you shouldn’t be allowed to give yourself
- Five things you might do with “all that ass”
- Five things of which I will never tire
- Five douchebag power tools
- Five terrible fake reality TV shows
- Five Flickr sets that aren’t driving the long-term traffic you’d hoped for
- Five musical embellishments that should be used in moderation
- Five creatures I would depict interacting with one other if I ran a “Creationism Museum”
- Five songs to which I have a very clear recollection of french kissing in the 1980s
- Five tastes of childhood with which I’ve recently and happily re-acquainted myself
- Five nouns from which it can be difficult to scrub the scent of utter bullshit
- Five Flickr comments left on the latest self-portrait of you staring slightly off-camera with your mouth open
- Five things, besides “your ride,” that you might wish to “pimp”
- Five early 80s albums that are better than you probably remember
- Five songs I’d enjoy hearing Tom Waits cover
- Five recent makebelieve Canadian girlfriends
- Five favorite Hee Haw performers
- Five hip-hop pseudonyms I’ve considered for myself
- Five nouns to which I enjoy prepending an unnecessary definite article
- Five potentially novel new year’s resolutions
- Five nicknames I would find unbearable
- Five favorite words I learned last year
- Five albums I was listening to when I moved to San Francisco (seven years ago today)
- Five ideas I’ve had for family theme restaurants
- Five Halloween safety tips
- Five owners of ambitious combovers
- Five terrible fake pledge-week specials on PBS
- Five phrases you may substitute if you are intimidated by overt swearing
- Five possible signs your congressman thinks your teenaged son is hot
- Five things you did while MySpace was down
- Five groups, apart from “women and children,” who should get to leave a sinking ship first
- Five persons who will eventually appear in every rock documentary
- Five excellent Iron Maiden songs (and what each is ostensibly about)
- Five things I’ll bet can be hard for pirates
- Five people who are much more enjoyable if you imagine them as pro wrestlers
- Five markings I think I’d enjoy having on my grave
- Five TV shows I’ll bet you don’t remember
- Five injustices you bravely suffer
- Five kitchen tools that sound kind of dirty
- Five possible meanings of that Kanji tattoo you can’t read
- Five terrible fake scripts from a notional fourth season of Gilligan’s Island
- Five amazing high-hat parts
- Five things, besides lying, that Shakira’s hips don’t do
- Five terrible fake Spears family parenting lapses
- Five songs I wish would become popular drunken singalongs at sporting events
- Five terrible fake David Blaine endurance stunts
- Five phrases I wish I had occasion to use more often
- Five things you probably don’t need to be carrying all the time
- Five things I wish I could get more into
- Five suggested Flickr tags
- Five periodicals I loved in the 90s
- Five amazing Beatles bridges
- Five ubiquitous anatomical embellishments from which I could use a break
- Five terrible fake Morrissey songs
- Five modifiers you might have intended when you just said “literally”
- Five places where the burnouts would hang out and smoke in junior high
- Five things that make me smile
- Five songs I sometimes listen to on repeat for 20 minutes
- Five composers I’m glad never had to hear their work performed primarily as ear-screeching ringtones
- Five things I currently have no intention of doing
- Five things that aren’t particularly helping my nascent dharma practice
- Five songs I’ve completely obsessed over
- Five terrible fake “Morning Zoo” teams
- Five candidates Madeline has repeatedly vetoed to be “our song”
- Five things I had to keep explaining to the guy at REI
- Five places I’ve had my hair cut
- Five good things to absorb while you’re still young
- Five reasons the terrorists hate us (apart from “our freedom”)
- Five decidedly un-super supergroups
- Five things you can bring along to help make the party all about you
- Five people I’d love to observe trying to have dinner together
- Five more excellent public radio names
- Five works I adore by artists I otherwise don’t care for
- Five people I’m told I impersonate badly
- Five things it’s worth paying a little extra for
- Five notional movies that might not have gone over as well with fundamentalists
- Five ways to get on the del.icio.us home page
- Five terrible fake entrees from the dotcom era
- Five ways your histrionic anti-abortion friend might refer to a fetus
- Five people of whom I confess to being a bit weary
- Five things (besides a television) that you could constantly remind people you won’t use
- Five rules of thumb
- Five more things Pat Robertson needs you to pray on
- Five They Might Be Giants songs I often find myself singing
- Five thoughts on who “they” might be
- Five favorite guitar chords
- Five rules from the NPR drinking game
- Five bands I’m sorry I never got to see live
- Five terrible fake non-fiction bestsellers
- Five favorite new wave drummers
- Five terrible fake secrets about Seals & Crofts
- Five things I have read repeatedly in the bathroom
- Five beverages I haven’t drunk very often since college
- Five Halloween costumes your sorority sisters are considering
- Five user icons
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Monthly Archives: February 2004
Five songs I loved in college that I’d really like to hear Jimmy Scott cover
+ Unsatisfied – The Replacements
+ There’s a Light That Never Goes Out – The Smiths
+ Ever Fallen in Love? – The Buzzcocks
+ True Faith – New Order
+ Couldn’t I Just Tell You? – Todd Rundgren
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Five things I learned from watching Under the Tuscan Sun without sound on the in-flight movie
+ Unattractive people are colorful and goodhearted
+ Almost everyone in Tuscany is an aging character actor with a funny hat
+ Italian men like watching women dance in fountains
+ Tuscan birthing rooms have unscreened windows with extraordinary views
+ The local police will give you rides on their little scooter bikes provided that you’re Diane Lane in a skirt Continue reading
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Five things that probably aren’t working as well as you think
+ The fanny pack
+ The fake English accent
+ The doo rag
+ That black light illuminating the under-carriage of your ’81 Tercel
+ The hair plugs Continue reading
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Five more proposed pieces of legislation supported by Mr. Bush
+ Protection of Words Fewer than Three Syllables Act
+ Bill to make the “High Five” the US’s official greeting
+ National ‘Everybody Wears Jeans’ Day (March 14th)
+ The “Pretty Girls Shouldn’t Act All Stuck Up” Amendment
+ Presidential proclamation that “California Must Apologize to Jesus (and It Has to Sound Like They Really Mean It)” Continue reading
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Five things my Mom and I particularly like to do together
+ Eat big steaks
+ Watch David Letterman
+ Look at old photos
+ Listen to Brian Eno (ambient period only, please)
+ Talk about how my dead stepfather sucked Continue reading
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Five favorite public radio names
- Mandalit Del Barco
- Lakshmi Singh
- Snigdha Prakash
- Russ Ringsak
- Robin Gianattassio-Malle
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Five things that a portly, scowling, fortyish, white-trash mother needs the teenaged cashier at the Home Depot in Holiday, Florida to understand right now
+ She has had a very long day and does not need a whole lot of lip from anybody
+ Her daughter is facing a completely unfair suspension from her junior high
+ She can very easily take her business somewhere else right this minute
+ This is the third time she’s had to come in this week about this and she really can’t talk about it any more
+ She does not appreciate being treated like this, thank you very much Continue reading
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Five sightings around town (New Port Richey, Florida; February, 2004)
+ “Participate in Operation Prayer Shield” (bumper sticker on a minivan at Publix)
+ “God made Adam and Eve–not Adam and Steve” (church billboard near Grandma’s house)
+ “Welcome to America: Now Speak English!” (bumper sticker on a pickup at the Texaco)
+ “NO FITTING ROOMS: In an effort to keep the cost low, we do not provide fitting rooms.” (WalMart Supercenter, men’s room door)
+ “Please stand at least ten feet away from this door because sometimes it opens unexpectedly and you might get hurt” (Mom’s hip doctor’s office’s waiting room) Continue reading
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Five terrible fake secrets about U.S. presidents
+ Jimmy Carter invented the “Pop ‘n Lock” breakdancing move when he was in the navy
+ Warren G. Harding once stabbed a hobo on a dare
+ Thomas Jefferson traded Dolly Madison three mules and a quill pen for an erotically charged lapdance
+ Calvin Coolidge never finished his dessert
+ James K. Polk liked it rough Continue reading
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Five unfortunate Valentine’s Day gifts
+ “Bumfights” video
+ Genital warts
+ Monster Manual
+ Deal-a-Meal™
+ Restraining order Continue reading
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Five terrible fake names for an aging bluesman
+ Bobby Joe “King” Crimson
+ “Meshuggah” Hyram Rafelson
+ “Syphillitc” Robbie
+ Blind “Blindie” Blindieblind
+ Cantankerous Wilbur (no. 2) Continue reading
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Five things that have gotten more complicated than I’d really like
+ Toothbrushes
+ Athletic shoes
+ Ordering coffee
+ Getting out of jury duty
+ Young men’s haircuts Continue reading
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Five things I’ve carried in the watch pocket of my Levi’s
+ Locker key (1981)
+ Video game tokens/Quarters (1983)
+ Jim Dunlop 1mm guitar pick (1988)
+ Ephedrine (1991)
+ Imodium (2001) Continue reading
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