diff --git a/bridges/TheOatMealBridge.php b/bridges/TheOatMealBridge.php
index dc6804aa..6e80fa8f 100644
--- a/bridges/TheOatMealBridge.php
+++ b/bridges/TheOatMealBridge.php
@@ -10,44 +10,17 @@ class TheOatmealBridge extends RssExpander{
         $this->collectExpandableDatas('http://feeds.feedburner.com/oatmealfeed');
     }
 
-
-    /**
-     * Since the oatmeal produces a weird RSS feed, I have to fix it by loading the items separatly from the feed infos
-     */
-    protected function collect_RSS_2_0_data($rssContent) {
-        $rssContent->registerXPathNamespace("dc", "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/");
-        $rssHeaderContent = $rssContent->channel[0];
-        $this->debugMessage("RSS content is ===========\n".var_export($rssHeaderContent, true)."===========");
-        $this->load_RSS_2_0_feed_data($rssHeaderContent);
-        foreach($rssContent->item as $item) {
-            $this->debugMessage("parsing item ".var_export($item, true));
-            $this->items[] = $this->parseRSSItem($item);
-        }
-    }
-
-
     protected function parseRSSItem($newsItem) {
-        $namespaces = $newsItem->getNameSpaces(true);
-        $dc = $newsItem->children($namespaces['dc']);
-        $rdf = $newsItem->children($namespaces['rdf']);
-        $item = array();
-        $item['title'] = trim($newsItem->title);
-        $this->debugMessage("browsing Oatmeal item ".var_export($newsItem, true));
-        $item['uri']=(string) $newsItem->attributes($namespaces['rdf'])->about;
-        // now load that uri from cache
-        $this->debugMessage("now loading page ".$item['uri']);
+        $item = $this->parseRSS_1_0_Item($newsItem);
+
         $articlePage = $this->get_cached($item['uri']);
-
         $content = $articlePage->find('#comic', 0);
-		if($content==null) {
-			$content = $articlePage->find('#blog');
-		}
-        $item['content'] = $content->innertext;
+        if(is_null($content)) // load alternative
+            $content = $articlePage->find('#blog', 0);
+
+        if(!is_null($content))
+            $item['content'] = $content->innertext;
 
-        $this->debugMessage("dc content is ".var_export($dc, true));
-        $item['author'] = (string) $dc->creator;
-        $item['timestamp'] = DateTime::createFromFormat(DateTime::ISO8601, $dc->date)->getTimestamp();
-        $this->debugMessage("writtem by ".$item['author']." on ".$item['timestamp']);
         return $item;
     }