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[bryant]

So the Onion went and asked a bunch of celebs who they could take in a fight. I gotta say, if you respond to that question with "I believe in non-violent solutions" or words to that effect, you're kind of wimping out. This is the Onion. Have a sense of humor. Maintain your principled stance on non-violence by saying "Nobody, because I have a principled stance on non-violence and I'd just curl up into a little ball even if it was Nancy Reagan coming after me."

Best line in the piece was from Frank Miller:

Well, she [Little Lulu] doesn't exist. She's just lines on paper. If you want to go along those lines, I'll just say I could take Galactus. Paper rips.

Yeah, baby. Paper rips.

Also, I am tremendously jealous of my once housemate Tasha Robinson who gets to go out and interview people and ask them questions like that. There's someone who knew what she wanted to do and now does it.

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[rollick.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I credit my job at the Onion more to blind dumb luck than to any sort of career plan or driving goal. But thank you.

[bryant]

And she's modest!

[thefirethorn.livejournal.com]

goofy-head Rollick and her goofy-memory, doesn't remember all those long years faithfully writing unpublished book reviews for the Onion, waiting, waiting, waiting for a ray of hope.........

[rollick.livejournal.com]

It was 2 1/2 years, thank you. And I wasn't waiting for a ray of hope, I was going "Ooh! Freelancing! For the Onion! Man, this is dull. Oh well, it's work." The fact that they eventually needed an editor still strikes me as luck.