Monthly Archives: June 2005

Five terrible fake 60’s dance crazes

  1. The Chili Dog
  2. The Zoroaster
  3. The Menarche
  4. The Eastern Front
  5. The McNamara

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Five country singers whose name I’d consider giving to a beloved family pet

  1. Wynette
  2. Maybelle
  3. Monroe
  4. Louvin
  5. Twitty

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Five excellent TV girlfriends

  1. Farrah Fawcett-Majors (1976)
  2. Jill Whelan (1979)
  3. Martha Quinn (1982)
  4. Markie Post (1985)
  5. Lauren Graham (2003)

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Five modest lifestyle adjustments at Neverland Ranch

  1. overnight guests must now provide own sheets and towels
  2. giraffes and chimps begin hawking Grit door-to-door
  3. Continental Breakfast downgraded to a can of Hawaiian Punch and some cab fare
  4. Ferris Wheel and railroad to close early on federal holidays
  5. “Jesus Juice” now prepared with less costly well-brand vodka

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Five subtle editorial changes at PBS

  1. Sesame Street abruptly changes name to The Big Bird Factor
  2. Jim Lehrer asked to roll his eyes dramatically whenever he mentions Democrats, women, or “the black”
  3. vintage Julia Child episodes re-edited to obscure left wings of all fowl
  4. Arthur and Barney pulled aside, told flatly to “butch it up”
  5. Frontline goes on hiatus; replaced by ”Let’s Shoot Crossbows!” with Ted Nugent

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Five favorite power pop songs right now

  1. The Good in Everyone – Sloan
  2. Both Sides Now – Jason Falkner
  3. All God’s Children – The Finn Brothers
  4. You’re My Favorite Waste of Time – Marshall Crenshaw
  5. No Matter What – Badfinger

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Five things I wish I could have talked out of my ass about on a weblog when I was in college

  1. Roland Barthes’ S/Z
  2. The Reagan Administration: What the eff?
  3. Green marks a continuing decline for R.E.M.
  4. goth kid in next room keeps playing that damned Ministry 12″
  5. cafeteria’s policy on soda refills = Florida’s modern Apartheid

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Five things people I knew in high school swore they’d do on their 18th birthday

  1. change first name to “Porsche Rose”
  2. stalk Prince
  3. smoke the world’s fattest joint—right in front of the Dean of Boys
  4. get tattoo of the cover of Iron Maiden’s Number of the Beast across entire back
  5. just chill out and shit

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Five places they seem to keep finding semen on “C.S.I.”

  1. toilet handle
  2. victim’s bed
  3. steering wheel
  4. night gown
  5. assailant’s penis

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Five favorite singers (who kind of don’t really sing)

  1. Craig Finn (The Hold Steady)
  2. Mark E. Smith (The Fall)
  3. Damaged-era Henry Rollins (Black Flag)
  4. Lou Reed (The Velvet Underground)
  5. Rex Harrison

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