Five places I’ve had my hair cut

January 23rd, 2006
  1. The Head Shop - Cincinnati, OH; 1976
  2. Hair Vegas - Port Richey, FL; 1982
  3. Hair on Earth - Tallahassee, FL; 1996
  4. The Grateful Head - San Francisco, CA; 2002
  5. Every Six Weeks - San Francisco, CA; 2005

Five good things to absorb while you’re still young

January 23rd, 2006
  1. a lot of hippies are selfish, unpleasant, and not particularly funny
  2. people who argue well aren’t necessarily right
  3. cars are kind of a weird thing to spend a lot of money on
  4. people will do things for you if you ask them as a favor
  5. angry waiters totally do things to your food

Five reasons the terrorists hate us (apart from “our freedom”)

January 23rd, 2006
  1. Wal-Mart’s everyday low prices
  2. those accursed speakers of truth at Fox News
  3. the bodacious racks of our many former child stars
  4. those delicious steak fries
  5. Bladder Buster Thursdays at that one place near campus

Five decidedly un-super supergroups

January 23rd, 2006
  1. GTR
  2. Mike & the Mechanics
  3. Damn Yankees
  4. USA for Africa
  5. Power Station

Five things you can bring along to help make the party all about you

January 11th, 2006
  1. your doggie
  2. your 12-string
  3. your new Nikon
  4. your puppet friend
  5. Dianetics

Five people I’d love to observe trying to have dinner together

January 11th, 2006
  1. Jerry Lewis
  2. Burt Bacharach
  3. Bill O’Reilly
  4. Rickey Henderson
  5. Little Richard

Five more excellent public radio names

January 11th, 2006
  1. Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
  2. Nguyen Qui Duc
  3. Sylvia Poggioli
  4. Hermione Gee
  5. Carol Anne Clark-Kelly (four first names!)

Five works I adore by artists I otherwise don’t care for

January 11th, 2006
  1. Madonna - Borderline
  2. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
  3. Counting Crows - Angels of the Silences
  4. Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
  5. Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone

Five people I’m told I impersonate badly

January 11th, 2006
  1. Roger Whittaker
  2. Bobby McFerrin
  3. Arnold Schwarzenegger
  4. my friend, Thomas
  5. Ray Milland

Five things it’s worth paying a little extra for

January 11th, 2006
  1. call brand gin
  2. AAA Plus
  3. the large sake
  4. the upgrade on Alaska Airlines
  5. room service coffee

Five notional movies that might not have gone over as well with fundamentalists

December 1st, 2005
  1. March of the Fornicating Bonobos
  2. March of the Child-Bearing Male Seahorses
  3. March of the Masturbating Chimps
  4. March of the Husband-Eating Mantises
  5. March of the Bearded Bachelors in Chaps

Five ways to get on the del.icio.us home page

December 1st, 2005
  1. Write a short how-to
  2. Start your title with a number
  3. Talk about del.icio.us
  4. Encourage people to “spread the word”
  5. Embrace recursion

Five terrible fake entrees from the dotcom era

November 15th, 2005
  1. Incredulous field greens dancing on a ladder of parched lemon rind, served with tamarind glacé ($38)
  2. Pan-asian calf leavings, dolloped en croute with cilantro-rose butter reduction ($46)
  3. Polenta cash register, filled with walnut-barley rice pyramids, lightly dusted with Tang® ($67)
  4. Artisan Rinds of Pork ($19)
  5. Single 20-dollar bill served raw, with alternating dipping stations of wasabi and aioli ($87)

Five ways your histrionic anti-abortion friend might refer to a fetus

November 15th, 2005
  1. pre-huggable cutiebunchkins
  2. unrealized attorney
  3. The Lord’s compulsory intercourse receipt
  4. untapped angel cluster
  5. ante-baptized believer cells

Five people of whom I confess to being a bit weary

November 15th, 2005
  1. Judith Miller
  2. Henry Rollins
  3. Barbara Ehrenreich
  4. Sandra Tsing Lo
  5. Robert Reich

Five things (besides a television) that you could constantly remind people you won’t use

November 15th, 2005
  1. non-quill pens
  2. manmade flooring
  3. store-bought ketchup
  4. tetanus shots
  5. inferior, mass-produced toilet paper

Five rules of thumb

October 31st, 2005
  1. The stupider your ringtone, the longer it will take you to answer your phone.
  2. The twin miracles of childbirth and pet ownership render you unable to share one photo of anything.
  3. If your vanity license plate makes any reference to the make of your vehicle, the people you work with despise you.
  4. Ph.D.s who ask to be called “Doctor” should be prepared to refer to every college graduate as “Bachelor.”
  5. If you own more than one Enya record you might as well buy all of them and make a little fort.

Five more things Pat Robertson needs you to pray on

October 31st, 2005
  1. that he might enjoy one blessed Matlock without needing to get up and make water
  2. immediate death of that harlot Shoney’s waitress with the filthy mouth on her
  3. ability to recall where he’s left his dag-goned pills
  4. neighbor kid with the loud rap music delivered a plague of boils (or possibly locusts and frogs)
  5. that he be granted one last chance to beat that pussy, Dukakis

Five They Might Be Giants songs I often find myself singing

October 31st, 2005
  1. Dr. Worm
  2. Man, It’s So Loud in Here
  3. They’ll Need a Crane
  4. Birdhouse in your Soul
  5. Don’t Let’s Start

Five thoughts on who “they” might be

October 31st, 2005
  1. Wall Street fat cats
  2. mainstream media (MSM)
  3. those bastard do-nothings back in DC
  4. Hollywood liberals
  5. New York jewry