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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
- Five controversial ontologies
- Five cutting-edge greeting cards
- 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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Five terrible fake movies on Lifetime this week (and who each stars)
- “Bring Back my Baby!” (Merdith Baxter)
- “Hey, That’s my Baby You’ve Got!” (Suzanne Somers)
- “Baby, Come Back” (Mariel Hemingway)
- “My Baby is Missing!” (Anne Heche)
- “Baby in a Tree: A True Story” (Mariette Hartley)
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Five things anyone in earshot should legally be permitted to do to a car for as long as its alarm is falsely blaring
Hit fenders repeatedly with a ball-peen hammer Defecate on windshield Break into trunk, fill with AOL® discs Throw razor-sharp lawn darts at tires Draw pee-pees and woo-woos on the driver-side door
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Five Childhood Taunts or Local Indie Rock Bands
No Shit Sherlock You Rot A Homo Sez What? Sped! Doy
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Five guesses at the number you’re thinking of right now
37 1 5 10 you’re not thinking of a number
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Five grating things about that chick from Marketing
- Freaky French manicure constantly inspected and maintained
- Seems to really enjoy saying “Solutions Seminar” over and over
- Cell phone’s “Für Elise” ringtone
- Thumb ring thought to be quietly boho, perhaps in a T.G.I. Friday’s kind of way
- Loves that fucking speakerphone, doesn’t she?
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Five phrases I very rarely use
my nigga bodacious rack tequila poppers fully monetized mental floss
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Five karmic burdens I’ll be burning off for years
I used to underbid other web developers by saying “The Requirements Process? Fuck that! They’re trying to soak you!” (1997) I used to forward things I thought were funny to lots of people via email (1994) I voted for Nader/LaDuke … Continue reading
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Five shitty bands that play the lounge in that hotel near your airport
Paolo Frechetti’s Original “Zodiac” Gravitage Fünk Mechanicz! “New Zodiac,” featuring Rob Volaré and Martin “Mook” Beelman The Feelin’ Fines
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Five donations that, frankly, the food bank has had just about enough of
O’Hurlington’s Beet Majesty in Unrendered Goo: 12-oz. Can Generic-brand 12-Bean Ranchero Puffs with Cornsilk Dip’n Sauce: FunPak™ of 5 Mysterious Lady Friend’s Pork Torquelinas in Brine: 14-oz. can (with attached Brinevelope) “No Fucking Way is This Flan!” (aka N.F.W.I.T.F.®): 12 … Continue reading
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Five terrible names for local retail stores
Pricey McMarkup’s House of Suspicious Deals Hot Fence Electronics Village Kostly Kornerz Chez Ripoffski: A Retailerié Misleadington’s Big Box
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Five good names to call people when you forget their real name
Champ Chief Big Shot Fruity Tex
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Five things and what they should cost
Six pack of domestic beer: $3.00 2-bedroom house: $25,000 Handgun: $20,000 and up Handjob: $5.00 Admission to First-run Movie: $2.00
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Five things to do when you should be looking for a job
Drink coffee Work on Ray Milland impersonation Read advice columns, scoff Water the aloe plant Make lists of five things
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Five things I owe to Michael N., Andrew H., and all the other kind folks who school me when I break my stupid style sheets
Large gift ham in tasteful wicker basket Romantic boatride with Pavarotti (plus one other tenor to be named) Their weight in comfortable athletic shoes from Target™ Semi-nude lap dance from former Senator Bob Dole, optional night of closed-mouth kissing Big … Continue reading
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Five songs to which, in previous lives, I have, inexplicably, slow-danced with a girl
“Hold on Loosely,” by .38 Special “Stairway to Heaven,” by Led Zeppelin “Spirit of Radio,” by Rush “Sister Christian,” by Night Ranger “Don’t Stop Believin’,” by Journey
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Five songs that always make me do that weird, strutting, Mick Jagger chicken dance
“June’s Foreign Spell,” by Spoon “Snowsuit Sound,” by Sloan “Come On, Come On,” by Cheap Trick “Car Radio,” by Spoon “Rocks Off,” by the Rolling Stones
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Five TV themes for which I often create an impromptu interpretive dance
Law & Order The Sopranos Six Feet Under The West Wing Newshour
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Five Somewhat Novel Compulsions I had at one time or another
A morbid fear of closing a cat in a door Uncontrollable counting of patterns of four Repeatedly listening to “Convoy” by C.W. McCall The constant sense that I’d forgotten to wear pants Wondering if I was the only human and … Continue reading
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Five terrible fake names the locals call that one dangerous place outside of town
- The Devil’s Handbag
- Dead Man’s Meadow
- The Widow Encourager
- Pointy Spikes Through Your Eyes Junction
- Thumbsnatch Cove
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Five requests with regard to my eventual death
If it happens that my death occurred in some public place, there is to be no ersatz memorial created on that location comprised of teddy bears, mylar balloons, or terrible poems written on posterboard in pink Magic Marker™. This is … Continue reading
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Five things that make it somewhat obvious I’m not originally from San Francisco
I dress like a slightly-retarded farm hand I drink Natural Light Beer almost exclusively I still can’t distinguish spoken Cantonese from Mandarin I still say things like “I’m not paying $2000 a month so you can block my driveway, Bub!” … Continue reading
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Five terrible fake titles for those tiny booklets sold in the supermarket check-out line
- How Kitties Pray
- Sleep Your Carcinoma Away
- Healthy Tomorrow…with Tarragon!
- Armchair Aerobic Crunch
- International Images of Jesus in Bread
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Five favorite branded characters
Pit-Pat Col. Sanders Hamburglar Burger Chef & Jeff Quaker Oats Guy
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Five TV Commercials that Haunted Me as a Child
Commercial for ventriloquist movie, “Magic” Tiny animated Chuck Wagon chased by dog Chanel #5 swimming pool ad Calgon: Ancient Chinese Secret John Cameron Swayze Timex ads
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Five terrible fake names for James Bond movies
- No Time for Sundays
- Die on Your Own Time
- Tumbler of Bullets
- Game for Two
- Fall Down Faster, Lovely
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Five sports stars I met on May 18, 1979
- Bob Trumpy
- Steve Garvey
- Tommy Lasorda
- Ron Cey
- Davey Lopes
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Five odd things my hateful stepfather consumed in large quantities
Dutch Masters™ cigars Turkey Salami Tab™ Head Cheese Human souls
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Five celebrities who would really creep me out if I found them sitting in my living room when I got home from the Safeway
Stone Phillips Steve Vai Dr. Phil Trent Lott (pantsless, especially) David Soul
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Five Things Banned by Mr. Marsh, 5th Grade teacher
My novelization of “The Warriors” My grassroots movement to begin an “Animal House”-style fraternity Paper torn from spiral notebooks (“I don’t need any frilly underwear,” he’d creepily declare) My extemporaneous remarks on the principal’s Nordic accent Monkey business
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Five Favorite Movies in Seinfeld
Sack Lunch Rochelle, Rochelle Cry, Cry Again Death Blow Prognosis Negative
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