Letters to the Editor
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Oh, please.
People getting worked up about how something on the internet sucks, though — that's different! Seriously, I admire the amount of energy required to sustain something like that.
Obviously -- since you're more than emulating it; you clearly desire to lead the fray. The amount of energy required to sustain your interest in condescending to and attempting to provoke people, however, isn't admirable at all. And it smacks of the only thing this strip has to offer: an insufferably misplaced ego.
For myself, I'll wait and see what Schlesinger and Bachtell have in store.
Have fun! Lord knows nobody else outside of Toni and Tom's little circle of faux-elitist psuedo-intellectuals will! Unless that includes you as well?
And keep reading the letters.
Keep sustaining that energy!
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LOL... too sophisticated for Salon?
Nice comic... and apparently over the "Helmuts" of a few Salon readers. It's NOT Olbermann OR Couric OR Paglia OR Huffington OR Colbert... it's a comic strip. Accept that. Take a deep breath. It's funny. Even in the flyover states.
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@FarleyNY
I guess I'm just not sophisticated enough. Suppose you explain it to me: tell me at least one thing in the strip that's funny, and why you think it's funny. I'm sure the rest of us are anxious to be educated; we've been waiting for three weeks now for *somebody* to explain it to us.
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...and by the way--
Anyone who actually *reads* Salon on anything like a regular basis would be unlikely to lump Paglia in with the rest of the names you dropped.
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Amity, back for more lameness
If I were a knee-jerk contrarian I would write...
Exactly what was predicted you would write - a defense of a comic strip just because a most letters don't like it.
Even more predictable is the complaining about complaining in a desperate attempt to be superior. Others express genuine, nerdy dislike for a cartoon. Contrarians wallow in condescending faux opposition.
People getting worked up about how something on the internet sucks, though — that's different!
Yes, internets are serious business. You are made of fail.
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That's it!
Farley has given us the clue...
It's funny in the flyover states. Although for what reason, I can't imagine. Maybe because rednecks automatically laugh whenever they hear potty words like "merde". For most, that's the extent of their French.
Hey, look, Beau...a chick said the French word for *shit*....ha ha he he ho ho......
that's it, that's who it's for. Larry, Darryl, and Darryl.
While I'm here...KILL THE BAD STRIP
It's BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD. It no redeeming features, not even the word *merde*. NONE
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Still waiting...
...for FarleyNY (or anybody else, for that matter) to cite even one instance of KOF being funny.
Until then-- chuck you, Farley.
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Now I'm being attacked! Duck Kasas duck!
Self-generated media is changing the world, and I'm seeing the ridiculous downside on it here - on Salon. I'm being told I don't belong. Attacking my intelligence for a 10-second comment is contemptible. Guess what: I don't care, maybe I don't want to play this game. I can logoff of Salon. I don't need virtual fans or friends.
I read a LOT of material online and Salon is maybe 1% of it. I choose my media. I was just pointing out how ridiculous it is for people to be so highly critical of media they don't have to read like this strip.
Salon is no be-all-and-end-all of ANY media. Good material does appear here. Dross as well. Trying to chase me - or Kansas O'Flaherty - or anyone else out smacks of McCarthyism, OK? Call in the House un-Salon Activities Committee! Put a lid on it. I'm sorry you don't like my opinion and guess what I don't give a f*ck - online, everyone's opinion is equally valid. Maybe write that down on your hand now, and think about it.
You people... and I use the term loosely...
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He's no fun-- he fell right over...
Gee, Farley-- who knew you were so sensitive? After that snarky remark about flyover states, I thought that surely you could take it as well as dish it out. Instead of actually responding to my simple request-- to indicate what it is about KOF that's funny, or provide at least one example-- you throw up the straw man about how your intelligence is being attacked. By whom? Saying what? You made the assertion that the strip is funny, and all I'm doing is asking you to illustrate your point; the next thing I know, you're bringing up Joe McCarthy-- why not ask why Salon readers hate freedom, while you're at it?
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No surprise it's still here...
The Salon people must have a real dilemma on their hands.
No one wants to call bullshit on fellow NY-literary-club members so everyone at the party pretends Toni & Tom actually didn't step in dog crap on the way over. Yet, the eyes of all continue to tear...
Until some face saving way for the little prince and princess creators can be concocted to end this embarrassing glimpse into their collective minds, we are stuck with it.
I now only read the letters from readers, 95% of which, if they had scratchy art and middle school font text, are abundantly more presentable than KOF.
KOF? Like a cough to a Hack? KOF by Hacks? Gotta go, I have a comic idea and favors to call in....