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Return Of Bloom County. Sorta
Slartibartfast writes "According to mycomicspage.com, the entirety of Bloom County will be re-published on their site, starting St. Paddy's day, and at a "highly accelerated" rate of one week every two days, until the entire strip is up. In addition -- an extra-special bonus for us Berke Breathed fans -- his college predecessor, Academic Waltz, will also be run. One caveat: it's subscription-based. However, for $10, I'd call it a huge bargain. I'm signing up."
I'd like to see Doonesbury republished, except... ooooh... a few years back I figured out how to hack the HTML serving their comics and I download the whole archive and have it on CD.
Naw, we don't need Doonesbury.
However, for $10, I'd call it a huge bargain. I'm signing up.
If you mention you posted the story on slashdot, you might get it for free.
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
This is one of those old-time-memories that you forget about until something like this brings it back. I remember reading this comic every Saturday morning, often thinking "what the f^%#" is going on, but laughing a lot. I really love the cat, how wierd it looks, and the content of the strips was such that if you didn't laugh, there must be a physical reason as to why you cannot laugh...perhaps you are heavily medicated in a coma. Of all days, St. Paddy's day, I have another reason to turn green today.
On a side note, have an extra pint of green tonite to celebrate the second coming of bloom county
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
...on my Banana 2000?
Lasers Controlled Games!
Let me know when/where you mirror it. I'd like a copy too.
Tee hee.
"Not to say that we didn't try..."
Ah, Milo. How I've missed you & your friends.
...when all of the drives and network shares for the Macs in the public computer labs were Bloom County characters. Remembering clicking on Portnoy or Opus to run Gopher brings a tear to my eye.
I remember getting my first Mac my senior year and instantly replacing the default hard drive icon with Bill the Cat's image and renaming it Ack!
Anybody know where to get Bloom County icons for OS X?
I think the /. crowd is just mad because opus is cooler than the linux penguin.
I think 10 dollars is a good price for a year subscription. I am tired of people overcharging for web content. I would like to see buisness models that rely on volume rather than high prices per customer.
And I think userfriendly.org had Bill the Cat on as a guest, since he is/was the only one able to properly pronounce "HTTP".
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
...Breathed won't start doing strips again. Can you IMAGINE the midnight revelations Binkley would be having about Michael Jackson these days?
-72
-Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music.
For those born after me, these are an ancient storage media which consist of pieces of paper, on which images have been permeneantly inscribed, bound together in bundles. They are unique in that they require no electricity, no networking, do not crash, may comfortably be rested on one's lap when one is in the bathroom thinking, and contain absolutely no DRM
I know, I know - what's the fun in that. You can't even make 'em run Linux.
I am a believer of momentum and curves.
"don't have to be in front of a tube to enjoy them"
What is wrong with being in front of a tube? Being in front of a tube is one of my favorite places to be! Especially in the dark with only the beloved Trinitron CRT as the sole light source. Heaven.
"you don't have to print and bind them"
And just why would you want to do a dumb thing like that? All I ever print is snail mail for those Luddenites in my life without email or an occasional resume.
Keep it electronic. Never use paper unless you absolutely have to. Why else would we have all of this disk space?
Sheesh.
I've got a CD with every C&H ever on it... All sorted into a nice HTML interface. and you can't have it.
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Actually, I read through Classics of Western Literature last night... the political satire rather nails the Bush whitehouse.
It's Reagan redux. Breathed is a prophet!