fiveoclockbot http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/ en-us 2006-05-15T13:32:06-06:00 When in Minnesota and you got a drinking quota.... http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/000867.php Thanks to MNspeak, I've been reminiscing about NOFX, who provided the soundtrack to many of my tragic junior high skateboarding poseur-fests in downtown Duluth. I "rode" a Maple board which basically meant that I just sat on curbs smoking cigarettes... jason 2006-05-15T13:32:06-06:00 Lemsip and manhattans http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/000866.php Whenever I visit Britain I stuff my bags with Lemsip on the return trip home. A lemony powder cut with a strong vein of Paracetamol, mixed with hot water it makes a lovely narcotizing tea that puts me to... jason 2006-05-15T11:46:35-06:00 Oh! http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/000864.php Oh! I just realized it's been about a year since fiveoclockbot returned to the scene in its present incarnation. Some readers have gone and some new ones have entered the discussions-I-mean-bitch-sessions. The incoming links are about the same as they've... jason 2006-05-11T14:50:17-06:00 Winning a round against my landlord http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/000863.php I won a round against my previous evil slumlord of a landlord, Jim Gray of Irving Properties. Earlier this week, Jim Gray allowed me to truss him up like a pig. He submitted. Licked my shitkickers clean. I moved out... jason 2006-05-11T10:33:07-06:00 The Rise of the Retrosexual http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/000862.php "First they came for the gays" First they came for the gays and I did not speak out because I was not gay. Then they came for the leatherfolk and I did not speak out because leather chaffs me. Then... jason 2006-05-09T14:22:21-06:00 Flight of the Navigator http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/000861.php Last night I watched Flight of the Navigator, a made-for-t.v. Disney movie from 1986. It was my favorite movie as a 10-12 year old. I probably saw it one Friday evening in summer, because Disney would show these movies each... jason 2006-05-07T23:42:03-06:00 Where I am http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/000860.php If more than a few days pass between postings, I'm either having a really good time or a really bad time, because blogs thrive within a space of mediocrity.... jason 2006-05-07T10:48:28-06:00 More Xanga http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/000859.php Makes me glad I don't live in nyc. Someone buy me a fucking camera. My friend Ben is so much better. Every time I think about him I end up thinking about the concept of 'marrow' and how I enjoyed,... jason 2006-05-03T21:29:28-06:00 If this were a Xanga blog... http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/000858.php If this were a Xanga blog, I might write something like: Do you ever talk to yourself in the mirror? Sometimes I do. Usually when I know I need to go work out and I'm too tired/lazy to muster up... jason 2006-05-01T21:36:40-06:00 Makeout City http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/000857.php GIRLS WHO ARE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS TO BE GIRLS WHO DO BOYS LIKE THEY'RE GIRLS WHO DO GIRLS LIKE THEY'RE BOYS ALWAYS SHOULD BE SOMEONE YOU REALLY LOVE Makeout City at Brian, Tom, and Emily's party on Saturday night... jason 2006-05-01T09:33:01-06:00 Patagium http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/000856.php Last night while standing outside my building I saw a flying squirrel. It is only the second time in my life I have seen one. I noticed an object alight in the high branches of an elm. It climbed to... jason 2006-04-29T14:57:44-06:00 Things that make me barf today http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/000855.php * Stepping outside my office to get some lunch (cravings for potato salad), I passed a woman in a thin peach sweater talking on a giant headphone-thingy attached to her cellphone. She was holding the cell phone in her hand... jason 2006-04-27T12:32:32-06:00 Someone finally gets it! http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/000852.php Today I wore my 'PORKCHOP SANDWICHES' shirt to work today, not because I like porkchop sandwiches but because I believe in the right of slacker/hipster media artists to create video art through mashups of cartoons I grew up with... jason 2006-04-27T08:48:45-06:00 Speaking of the superficiality of myspace... http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/000850.php MyDeathSpace.com is a website devoted to compiling the stories and linking the to myspace profiles of people, most of them very young, who have recently died. At first, you may be a little sickened as you start reading the maudlin... jason 2006-04-26T08:10:43-06:00 My new favorite blog http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/000849.php Well, it has been my favorite blog for quite some time, as Olivia's faithful recording of her simple life reveals beautiful pearls of wisdom. Had myspace been available to Emily Dickinson, she may have come up with something quite... jason 2006-04-25T08:08:35-06:00