Five terrible fake David Blaine endurance stunts

May 1st, 2006
  1. perches atop a Shoney’s salad bar (throughout busy Mother’s Day holiday)
  2. wedges deep in Ted Kennedy’s jowl (duration of lengthy filibuster)
  3. stands dutifully in line at the DMV (16 weeks)
  4. sealed in oversized Ziploc® bag; simply forgotten in back of fridge (2½ years)
  5. attends taping of Dr. Phil (60 minutes)

Five phrases I wish I had occasion to use more often

May 1st, 2006
  1. foxy boxing
  2. bitch slap
  3. jack-knifed big rig
  4. junk in the trunk
  5. hot stone massage

Five things you probably don’t need to be carrying all the time

May 1st, 2006
  1. the carabiner
  2. the big-ass ring of keys
  3. the skateboard you never actually ride
  4. the shurikens
  5. the two-year-old condom

Five things I wish I could get more into

May 1st, 2006
  1. Diet Coke
  2. vim
  3. situps
  4. kale
  5. cats

Five suggested Flickr tags

April 11th, 2006
  1. “Rows Of Seated White Men Typing At Conferences”
  2. “My Underlit Dessert With One Bite Missing”
  3. “My Defenseless Child In A Funny Shirt I Made Him Wear”
  4. “Attractive Man In His Twenties Playing An Electric Guitar”
  5. “The Photo From This ‘Impromptu’ Self Portrait Series That Suggests I Don’t Have A Dewlap”

Five periodicals I loved in the 90s

April 11th, 2006
  1. Might
  2. Ben is Dead
  3. Beer Frame
  4. Grand Royal
  5. Thrift Score

Five amazing Beatles bridges

April 11th, 2006
  1. You Won’t See Me
  2. Here, There, and Everywhere
  3. I Feel Fine
  4. Help!
  5. We Can Work It Out

Five ubiquitous anatomical embellishments from which I could use a break

April 11th, 2006
  1. the muffintop
  2. the whale tail
  3. the be-ringed toe
  4. the back tattoo
  5. the pierced nostril

Five terrible fake Morrissey songs

March 28th, 2006
  1. Bachelor in a Casserole
  2. The Swirling Clergyman’s Lament
  3. St. Sebastian’s Disused Quiver
  4. Dolorous Dolores
  5. Gracious Knows These Trousers Bind

Five modifiers you might have intended when you just said “literally”

March 28th, 2006
  1. completely
  2. kind of
  3. almost
  4. not at all
  5. figuratively

Five places where the burnouts would hang out and smoke in junior high

March 28th, 2006
  1. The Tree
  2. The Bridge
  3. The Pit
  4. outside the Red Baron
  5. Scott’s dad’s trailer

Five things that make me smile

March 28th, 2006
  1. the little arrow in the FedEx logo
  2. elderly couples in matching outfits
  3. “You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice” by the Lovin’ Spoonful
  4. Candide
  5. Jack Horkheimer

Five songs I sometimes listen to on repeat for 20 minutes

February 22nd, 2006
  1. “North to Nothing” / The Wrens
  2. “Most People are DJs” / The Hold Steady
  3. “Only Shallow” / My Bloody Valentine
  4. “7/4 (Shoreline)” / Broken Social Scene
  5. “See That Girl” / Kirsty MacColl

Five composers I’m glad never had to hear their work performed primarily as ear-screeching ringtones

February 20th, 2006
  1. Mozart
  2. Bizet
  3. Beethoven
  4. Bach
  5. Tupac

Five things I currently have no intention of doing

February 20th, 2006
  1. voting for Pedro
  2. doing the Dew
  3. getting vertical
  4. catching air
  5. nailing the 720

Five things that aren’t particularly helping my nascent dharma practice

February 20th, 2006
  1. Amazon Prime
  2. no-foam soy lattes
  3. ubiquitous clocks
  4. Charles Shaw Cab Sav ($2/bottle)
  5. The House of Prime Rib

Five songs I’ve completely obsessed over

February 20th, 2006
  1. Stand and Deliver - Adam & the Ants - 1982
  2. So. Central Rain - R.E.M. - 1984
  3. Brand New Love - Sebadoh - 1993
  4. Listen to What the Man Said - Wings - 1975
  5. Makes No Sense at All - Hüsker Dü - 1985

Five terrible fake “Morning Zoo” teams

February 9th, 2006
  1. Skirtbot’s Screaming Monkey Cage (featuring “Tiffany”)
  2. Tank and Fawn: The Q98 Dream Team
  3. Lesbo and Günther’s Drivetime Wacky Pack
  4. ¡Loco Pedro y El Pollo de la Mañana! (de Caliente 103)
  5. The Fart Factory

Five candidates Madeline has repeatedly vetoed to be “our song”

February 9th, 2006
  1. “Peg” by Steely Dan
  2. that dolorous “Magnadoodle” jingle
  3. “Tom Sawyer” by Rush
  4. “Cars” by Gary Numan
  5. a song I made up about Madeline that rhymes her last name with “sinus”

Five things I had to keep explaining to the guy at REI

January 23rd, 2006
  1. I’ll mostly be seated and typing while I wear these shoes
  2. I very rarely leave the house
  3. There’s a paucity of rocks to climb in the Sunset District
  4. I’d prefer shoes that don’t look like “The Visible Man”
  5. These have more than enough “torsion control” for smoking cigars and walking to the Walgreens