Blog concepts I wish I’d thought of
I stole this link from BoingBoing, but 5ives (a.k.a. "Merlin’s Lists of Five Things") is hilarious. I’m simultaneously hooting with laughter and coveting the list-of-five idea. I’d post my own ("Five operatic arias I sing in the shower," "Five movie stars I find intensely irritating for no good reason," "Five things I have reportedly said in my sleep," etc.), but that would just look too derivative, and I could never be as funny as, say, "Five fake names for a notional magazine about extreme treadmill exercise". Or "Five fake titles for those tiny booklets sold in the supermarket check-out line". Or especially "Five great reasons to buy a Hummer (TM)".
In which case you should read (or rent) “High Fidelity.” Lots of funny lists there.
I really needed a good laugh tonight so thanks for this link. I thought I’d die when I got to “Five celebrities who would really creep me out if I found them sitting in my living room when I got home from the Safeway” and found “Trent Lott (pantless, especially).”