Five terrible fake Jane Austen novels

August 19th, 2008
  1. Rash and Rationality
  2. Punk and Punctuality
  3. Beast and Bestiality
  4. Funk and Functionality
  5. Fried and Credulous

Five rejected names for Austin BBQ restaurants

August 19th, 2008
  1. The Saltiest Joint
  2. Suck the Bone
  3. Unexpectedly Covered in Sauce
  4. Bar-B-Q*bert
  5. Texas Pete’s Rootin’, Tootin’ Pulled Pork ‘n’ Fellatio Funfactory

Five records I wish I could have sung backup on

August 19th, 2008
  1. “You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice” by The Lovin’ Spoonful
  2. “Wall of Death” by Richard & Linda Thompson
  3. “Rocks Off” by The Rolling Stones
  4. anything by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
  5. “The Village Green Preservation Society” by The Kinks

Five occupations whose uniform I think I’d enjoy wearing

August 19th, 2008
  1. barber
  2. MUNI driver
  3. flight attendant
  4. kung-fu master
  5. deceased fried chicken entrepreneur

Five things that should be issued to every American on his or her 14th birthday

July 19th, 2008
  1. condoms (and instruction on how and when to use/not use them)
  2. The Elements of Style by Strunk and White
  3. phone number of a super-cool, non-panicky adult (who will get you out of the jams your parents must never learn of)
  4. Surfer Rosa by Pixies
  5. iPod on which to listen to Surfer Rosa at painfully loud volume

Five unusual Top Chef production crew titles

June 9th, 2008
  1. Fauxhawk Sharpener
  2. Timpani Dramaticizer
  3. Molecular Gastronomy Re-explainer
  4. Foam Consultant
  5. Clog Wrangler

Five poetic phrases culled from Joe McConnell’s Bay Area radio traffic report

June 9th, 2008
  1. slow in pockets
  2. jackknifed big rig
  3. backed-up to the maze
  4. Friday-light
  5. goat on the shoulder

Five rejected titles for the latest Coldplay record

June 9th, 2008
  1. ¿Perry Cómo Estás?
  2. Que Syrah Syrah
  3. Bicycletarse
  4. Chili Art Carney
  5. No Hablamos Español

Five rejected names for a single-serving meal product

April 4th, 2008
  1. Quiet Evenings
  2. Me & the Kitties
  3. Lonesome Bites
  4. Monomunches
  5. Singles…for Life!

Five ways to leverage the mobile thinkosphere

March 19th, 2008
  1. blogmobisodes
  2. webmobinars
  3. telestreamanogisodes
  4. lividmobipostiscussions
  5. netconvermomomobomasations

Five “Web 2.0″ ways to break up with your boyfriend

March 18th, 2008
  1. add unflattering Flickr tag, “Fat asshole with a unibrow”
  2. change Facebook status to “He’s literally dead to me”
  3. web widget counts up days since your last climax (currently: “193″)
  4. share Zoho spreadsheet to split up MySpace friends
  5. decline to participate in Series B round of affection

Five terrible fake astronomical pickup lines

March 13th, 2008
  1. Ever wonder what’s happening under Orion’s belt?
  2. Hop in my van, and I’ll show you something else that’s constantly expanding.
  3. Was Democritus the first one to postulate your mysterious Milky Way?
  4. I’d like to Sagittarius your Pisces, and that’s no Taurus.
  5. How about we go outside and discover Uranus?

Five rejected names for “Cooter” on The Dukes of Hazzard

March 6th, 2008
  1. Daniel Poon
  2. Mr. Strange
  3. Steve the Sleeve
  4. Snatch Adams
  5. Ol’ Vag

Five fake names I keep waiting for an opportunity to use

March 6th, 2008
  1. Romana Clay
  2. Rosco Green
  3. Kel Domage
  4. Fanny B. Tender
  5. Farrell Katz

Five cues that Robert Plant is ready to have sexual intercourse with you

February 12th, 2008
  1. gently enquires as to where you like to put the turkey baster
  2. repeatedly offers to demonstrate “how Blighty squeezes the lemonade”
  3. stands in your front yard, pants-less and swinging a garden hose in lazy figure-eights
  4. makes rapid “milking a cow” gesture while screaming something incoherent about Robert Johnson
  5. drops his semi-erect penis onto your dessert plate

Five more terrible fake reality TV shows

February 4th, 2008
  1. Are You Smarter Than an Ottoman?
  2. Project Segway
  3. Would You Eat This for Money?
  4. America’s Next Top Preclear
  5. Who Wants to Be a Cultural Footnote?

Five subtle changes in the event that Microsoft acquires Yahoo!

February 1st, 2008
  1. your Flickr.com photos are still your own (although human faces are now obscured by selected partner company logos)
  2. owing to unavoidable data corruption, all Upcoming.org events must be reinstalled monthly
  3. following upgrade to Vista, clicking del.icio.us links now requires 1 GB of RAM and 40 GB drive space (per link)
  4. Jerry Yang now compelled to “do that funny MC Hammer dance” whenever Ballmer’s meds start wearing off
  5. folksy motto tweaked to “If You Ever Want to See That Pretty Family of Yours Again, You Damned Straight Better Fucking Yahoo!

Five names you can belch

February 1st, 2008
  1. Frank Black
  2. Bob Hodgkins
  3. Barack Obama
  4. Ponce De Leon
  5. John Hodgman

Five ways Angelina Jolie can quickly acquire more children

January 31st, 2008
  1. gestate auxiliary sets of twins in climate-controlled Fendi bags
  2. make Brad build a big-ass gingerbread house
  3. explore viability of controversial “dorsal carriage” (a/k/a “butt fetus”)
  4. surreptitiously cruise Gymboree with mallet and a sack
  5. lay excess eggs in what’s left of Sean Young

Five ways you’re unleashing the power of your blog

January 29th, 2008
  1. tearing the veil away from the morally bankrupt raincheck policy at Marshall’s
  2. “crowdsourcing” the naming of your new unicycle
  3. taking a symbolic day off from blogging to protest the unjust treatment of “some Oriental dude” you read about on Slashdot
  4. daring to name names in the “personal holocaust of customer service” you recently suffered at Fry’s
  5. funny new snapshot of your kitty, “Warrant Officer Ripley,” acting like she’s people