Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for July 12, 2018

Back in the day it was the dreaded Walkman. Now it’s cell phones that people escape reality with.

Just replace the cord with Bluetooth and the tape player with a smartphone. The only thing that really doesn’t change is people.

Well, yeah, tuning out the rest of the world is kind of the point.

I remember the Walkman being the height of technology. Why, you could take you music anywhere! Provided you felt like walking around with a pocket full of cassette tapes.

Way way WAY ahead of his time!

I once had a job where I could have my Walkman on while I worked. The funny thing was, when people would come into my cubicle to ask me something, I never needed to turn it off, and I didn’t yell. People asked me if it was even on. It was; I just never needed it to be blaring.

I think that’s the same woman who is always walking around in the Walmart shouting all of her personal business into her phone (and everybody else’s ears).

plus ca change, plus ca le meme chose

i used to tell the college students i worked with that they should consider a career in audiology for all the folks losing their hearing to their cranking iPods. (Also cardiology, for the damaged hearts from excessive ‘energy drink’ consumption, and dermatology for removal of regretted tattoos .)

Today this would be easier to draw; just a line to the ears to represent the earbuds jammed halfway to their brain stems.

Mr. Breathed clearly foresaw the advent of “fake news”.

“What!? A talking penguin!?”

The sad part is that her hearing will be just as bad once she removes the headphones.

Yup! And it was tasty-delicious!

You may now go back to your tunes, lady-on-a-park-bench-for-no-reason-at-all….