Yes! Dept. Head Rawlings is Back

We all have our petty obsessions. Like all Americans with an above-average Hi-Q (humor-quotient), I'm an avid Onion reader. In fact, during 2000-2002 I subscribed to the print version and the online versions until they made both of them free. Anyway, there's one writer dude whose work has been missing for a while - the guy, or team, who write the Advice Columns and the serial-story columnists.

The Advice Column, "ask a..." are great inside and out. The concepts are usually hilarious (e.g. "Ask a Faulknerian man-child") and the columns contain a hidden narrative which adds even more to the possible humor.

Then there are the specific columnists. For some reason, the Onion churns out great quantities of the columns in the voice of some stoner dude, a bourgois house-frau, and a white Hip-Hop accountant. But the best ones are the internal story lines.

The second best is Gorzo the Mighty - a parody of the space opera genre. But my absolute favorite is Dept Head Rawlings - a parody of spy thrillers.

Check out the first episode: Allow Me To Introduce You To The Other Members Of Alpha Bravo Team.

And just today, after a hiatus of about a year, the newest episode: We Have New Intelligence Regarding The Identity Of The Counter-Spy Within The Department

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