Ah, I fondly remember the first time I picked up the Onion (cue harpsichord). I was in a gyros shop on State St. in Madison and grabbed a copy along with some other periodicals and actually didn't get around to looking at the Onion, so I stuffed it in my backpack to read on my flight the next day. Sitting around at O'Hare the next day I started looking at it and the headlines were "Clinton Loses Thermos" and "Ketchup Not Fancy Enough For Local Man". I started chortling aloud, much to the consternation of a nearby family. The Onion has already released two or three other books that are really just collections of headlines, and I never felt the need to buy them since I could easily read the whole thing in the bookstore. But they've finally released a collection of interviews from the Onion A.V. Club section, so, armed with a $50 gift certificate to the Tattered Cover in Denver, I decided that this volume would make a fine addition to my library. I mostly read it on the can, but it has lasted me since early January and I'm just now finishing all the interviews. The best interview so far is with author/raconteur Harlan Ellison, and there are bitching interviews with the usual cast of industry outsiders like Stevie Albini and Henry Rollins. Since by now The Onion appears to wield a good deal of street credibility, they can get away with not asking the typical stupid interview questions and go more in-depth with the offbeat questions. Other standout interviews: Bob Barker, Joan Jett, Ron Jeremy, Merle Haggard, Weird Al. And it sells for something like $13, so you really can't afford not to buy a copy.