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Berke Breathed Interview in The Onion

Posted by Hemos on from the talking-to-the-man dept.

Hobart writes "Berke Breathed, author of Bloom County has granted an interview to Tasha Robinson of the The Onion's AV Club. This is the second interview I've seen in six months (previous interview link) after the six years of silence since the end of Outland. He even calls for volunteers to help with his site! ;)"

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  1. Insight behind the dot-com bust... by Guppy06 · · Score: 3, Funny
    O: At about this time last year, the Internet freelance marketplace ants.com announced that you'd won a bid to design a mascot for them. Whatever became of that?

    BB: I entered as a joke and a bet with my brother-in-law that I could name a price that a dot-com would refuse to pay. The bastards paid.

  2. Re:Bloom County ? What the fuck is that ? by swinginSwingler · · Score: 2, Funny

    All I have to say is "THPTF"

  3. Such wit by gorgon · · Score: 2, Funny
    O: Is the liberal stance of the early strips indicative of your own personal politics?

    BB: Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

    I love this guy - I hope he makes a comeback.

    And thanks for the new sig, Berke.

    --

    And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
    Berke Breathed
  4. The Onion by ConsumedByTV · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nothing beats The Onion when it comes to horoscopes, Heres Berkeley's:

    Virgo: (Aug. 23--Sept. 22)
    It will occur to you that no one in the phone book has a realistic-sounding name. Change them all, if possible.


    However mine is better :)
    Aries: (March 21--April 19)
    If you put too much gasoline on the bandanna over your face, you'll get sick. Not enough and you'll be able to smell the corpses. Strike a balance.

    --


    "Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness." - M
  5. Banana p.c. junior by ubugly2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The one machine i wished someone would make...