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Nick Bondarev

Audere Editorial: What will we write about now?

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January 20, 2021: Well, everything seems to be fine now. It’s been half a day, and so far, no abusive tweets from the new administration. So we are cautiously optimistic about tone.

Some people are sad, some people are happy. To the sad, we sympathize. Those of us who voted Biden will not gloat. Those of us who voted Trump will not lash out. One day, the tide will turn again. Joe the Plumber might be elected president in 2024. Or Joe Piscopo. Or Danny Bonaduce. So we will see how that goes. Could be OK. Might be bad. Some people would love it.

We could probably use less politics right now, less screaming at each other. It is easier to say that when our candidate has won. But whoever you voted for, we appreciate your readership, we don’t think there is anything funny about your pain. We’ve all been angry. At least all Americans have that in common. If you are looking for things that unite us, still, there is that. We have all been very very angry.

So for at least the next week, no politics at all. Maybe for much longer.

So what is there to write about, now?

We will publish pretty photos from around the world. See above, for example. Isn’t that pretty? (Gosh, it probably makes you feel peaceful, even if you are yearning.) We will publish more stuff like that, pretty and free stock photos. Doesn’t cost us anything, so why not?

We will rediscover humorous 19th century rhyming couplets. Or, at least, we will try. We will look. Cannot guarantee that we will rediscover anything, but we will try. We will write about AJR, Mannix reruns and “Bertha the Siberian Cheesehound.” Who among us does not love funny Siberian cheesehounds? Who among us doesn’t love AJR? Who can honestly say that they don’t love AJR?

But no politics, till at least one week from today. Maybe longer.

Let’s all take a deep breath.

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Image by Nick Bondarev.

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Your Sunday Funnies: More “Bertha the Siberian Cheesehound”

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As we’ve noted before, and as we may well note again, there really once was a comic strip called “Bertha the Siberian Cheesehound.” It was drawn by the still-famous Rube Goldberg back in the 1920s, and it was a spin-off of the even more stunningly named strip, “Boob McNutt,” also by Goldberg. (Really, the worst title for a comic strip this side of Boner’s Ark.) We’ve given you the history of the strip before, so there is nothing more to say besides here’s another one, and enjoy.

Bertha cover photo

Your Sunday Funnies: Sunday, February 7, 1926

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RUBE GOLDBERG lived from 1883 to 1970, and he is remembered principally as the originator of the “Rube Goldberg Machine,” elaborate, ridiculous contraptions that take many steps to complete a simple task, and which are constantly mimicked and referenced even today. But before he was famous for his machines, he wrote a comic strip called Bertha The Siberian Cheesehound and another one called (quite unfortunately) Boob McNutt. These are not remembered today, not at all. Here’s a Bertha strip, from 1926, for your edification.

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Photo, Joe Ciciarelli, Unsplash.