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I'm obsessed with high school/college newspapers. They're so far below awful that I can't help but love them. Every poorly thought-out sentence brings me so much joy. It's written by kids imitating a medium so stale, pointless, and poorly thought-out itself, that adding the elements of extreme amateurism and adolescent apathy makes it comically bad. And the variety of subject matter is just amazing; articles about iPods, cafeteria food, and MTV programming are placed side by side with articles about war, the economy, and environmental disaster.

Also, my friend, who pretty much has a learning disability when it comes to writing, got on his school newspaper and wrote articles for it without anyone giving a flying shit. That's my other favorite thing about school newspapers: no one, no one, NO ONE reads them. Testing this theory, I made my friend write the most mind-numbingly retarded articles for his paper, including one about Steven Seagal and another about Swine Flu written entirely in the voice of Bill Preston/Ted Logan.

Also, this girl I met in college wrote articles that had hidden, vindictive messages to teachers and girls she was pissed off at. The greatest one was an article about how she's totally a virgin who's saving herself for marriage. She actually carried around copies of it and handed it out to anyone who stated or implied that she was a slut.

Lastly, I'm also a bit obsessed with prairiedogeric10. I lost track of how many sites I've made about you, and so obviously when you and high school newspapers come together (on what looks to be piece of printer paper that comes folded in half and stapled together), I lol.