who needs Roget when you have college kids?

Spending the day cleaning up and out. Found my scrapbook from my freshman/sophomore year of college at Mizzou (1983-84).

First entry: A piece of notebook paper. On it, my Linguistics 20 notes for the day (DAMN, that professor was a bitch, too, and she'd never seen my name before. The last one I can see. How is it that you get to be like 65 and don't know how to pronounce "Candace"? Or get a Ph.D, for that matter?)

Anyway. Whatever the point of the exercise was I no longer have any idea, but herewith, I provide you with about 20 college kids' contributions to "synonyms for inebriated":

• Drunk
  
• Plastered
  
• Bombed
  
• Blottoed
  
• Wasted
  
• Trashed
  
• Blitzed
  
• Schnockered
  
• Blasted
  
• Blown away
  
• Sloshed
  
• F'd up
  
• Gone
  
• High
  
• Feeling good
  
• Shite-faced
  
• Juiced
  
• Stoned
  
• FUBAR
  
• Skids
  
• Obliterated
  
• Tipsy
  
• Happy
  
• Intoxicated
  
• Fuddled
  
• Skiffy
  
• Oiled
  
• Tight
  
• Sozzled
  
• Screwed
  
• Blind drunk
  
• Soaked
  
• Boozed
  
• Liquored up
  
• Tanked
  
• Tossed
  
• Soused
  
• Buzzed
  
• Plowed
  
• Knocked off your ass
  
• On Cloud 88
  
• Nametagged
  
• Totaled
  
• Annihilated
  
• Stupid
  
• Under the table
  
• Paralytic
  
• Pissed
  
• Ripped
  
• Polluted
  
• Slammed
  
• Faced
  
• Lambasted
  
• Three sheets to the wind
  
• Cooked
  
• Zombied
  
• Messed up
  
• Mummified
  
• Smashed
  
• Pickled
  
• Canned
  
• Loaded
  
• Fried
  
• On the bottle
  
• Soaring
  
• Flying
  
• Fixed
  
• Discombobulated
  
• Rocked
  
• Bonkers
  
• Looped
  
• Goofed up
  
• Gassed

Hey, Mom and Dad! Your tuition dollars at work.

not too many surprises here....

but one of them broke my heart. (Hint in my "now playing" tag.)

Next they'll tell me Johnny Rotten loves puppies and kittens and unicorns and rainbows.

Republican celebs

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Now playing: The Ramones - Cretin Hop
via FoxyTunes

candy's ode to spring:

I'm sure Byron, Shelley and Keats would approve.

Photos to come of "the first day of spring." But while my camera battery charges, I have to sneak in Dorothy Parker's "A Pig's-Eye View of Literature" to get it out of my head:

Byron and Shelley and Keats
Were a trio of lyrical treats.
The forehead of Shelley was cluttered with curls,
And Keats never was a descendant of earls,
And Byron walked out with a number of girls,
But it didn't impair the poetical feats
Of Byron and Shelley,
Of Byron and Shelley,
Of Byron and Shelley and Keats.

worth a thousand words and all that.

Sadness. :~(

Credit to boston.com for this photo of a newspaper box graveyard.

ya never know, i guess.

I would not have expected this from this guy. I did a story on him when he was first appointed and all the people I interviewed just gushed about how wonderful he was and how good for the city he'd be, etc. The interactions I had with him in the time I was there were always professional and pleasant.

The closest this place gets to "diversity" is a former city councilman who's part Native American, btw.

South Milwaukee fire chief

it's not just bankers.

Greed is everywhere.

Newspapers dying left and right, tens of thousands of journalists out of jobs -- including 100+ at the JS -- and check out the nerve of this guy.

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Journal CEO's compensation increases
By Paul Gores of the Journal Sentinel

Mar. 19, 2009 6:54 p.m. | Total compensation increased almost 22% last year for Journal Communications Inc. chairman and chief executive Steven J. Smith, according to a regulatory filing by the company Thursday.

Smith earned no bonus, but his salary rose 3.7% to $798,077. He received stock awards worth $1,672 and option awards valued at $397,003, a proxy statement for the Milwaukee-based media company and publisher of the Journal Sentinel said. The biggest change in compensation was in the value of Smith's retirement benefits, which grew to $233,110, compared with $74,782 in 2007. He received other compensation last year worth $16,095.

Journal Communications posted a $224.4 million loss in 2008, largely due to $228.7 million in non-cash charges in the fourth quarter as the company wrote down the value of goodwill and some of its television and radio licenses. The company's newspaper, radio and TV operations also saw declines in revenue because of the recession and the ongoing migration of ads to the Internet. Its stock price fell 72.6% during 2008.
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I know nobody ever said life was fair, but c'mon!!

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Now playing: Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen
via FoxyTunes

bad move, Nick.

A guy who plays for a team whose fans are called Cheeseheads really ought to watch his mouth around reporters. ;-)

Packers linebacker Nick Barnett signed autographs, and tasted a smoked gouda fresh from a judging table.

"Tastes like cheese," he said. "I don't know the difference."

easy, cheesy, beautiful