Letters to the Editor
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Lock her up. In the *women's* lockup...
Yeah, that'll teach her. (First again!)
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STILL
STOOOOOPID!
I swear I get dumber with every episode of this shite that I read. Which explains why I'm still bothering to read it.
Otto E. Roddick
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another funny thing...
it isn't...
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This is total crap
I am a mathematician, and I wasn't born without finger prints.
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Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Spy
The link from the Salon home page called this comic "Kansas O'Flaherty, Secret Spy," which seemed a bit redundant to me. I think they should have called her an "Undercover Secret Spy" to make sure we all get that she's a spy. A secret one, no less!
And you know, I'll be honest here. I didn't really like the first dozen or so installments of Kansas O'Flaherty, but this one finally won me over. I'm glad Salon stuck with it all this time. K'OF is an acquired taste, folks. No fingerprints! You don't get stuff like that in the other serial comics out there! Trust me, I've looked.
But seriously, only two more days until Tom The Dancing Bug...
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I don't get it.
Perhaps I am missing something - does anyone really find this strip, which consists of, as nearly as I can tell, in each instance, two people trading cliched dialog, to no apparent end, interesting?
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@ xcentrik debreuklyn
In answer to your question: no, none of us do.
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Why ask Why?
Yes sir, it is crap. But the letters section makes me laugh my mother-$#%^@ off...
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Remix-Video Interview
A little bit of spill-over stuff from last week -- if you saw Harold Haller's brilliant YouTube remix video, "One Night In Kansas":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zjvuVHpk10
I just did an interview with him about it. The interview's all about the remix video and "Kansas O'Flaherty" in general... so if you want to check it out, go here:
http://kittysneezes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=212:interview-harold-hallerone-night-in-kansas&catid=20:interviews&Itemid=29
As for this week's strip? Well, um, at least there's actually been a bit of continuity... that's gotta count for something, right?
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@ xcentrik debreuklyn
I don't get it.
Now you've got it.
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@ xcentrik debreuklyn, part 2
Perhaps I am missing something - does anyone really find this strip, which consists of, as nearly as I can tell, in each instance, two people trading cliched dialog, to no apparent end, interesting?
Um ... no. But isn't that fascinating?
It just shows up, unbidden, each and every week, like a Fingerhut catalogue. And even though you will never buy a toaster cover that looks like a basset hound, you must read it anyway.
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What's good for the gander ......
You know what? Methinks the interrogator ain't got no fingerprints, neither.
Questions to ponder:
1) Who is taking care of the damned dog?
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Is it just me?
Or was that one almost, but not quite, tolerable?
Although, I'm not a comic person really, but even I know that you shouldn't do those stacked bubbles like that, it's damn confusing.
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I think I get the joke...
It goes something like this: "We're supposed to be entertaining you...and we're not! Ha, ha!"
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Um...
What's the little back thing that appears between his eyes in the two right panels? Any why does he have crucifixes in his ears?
You know, I'm only tuning into this comic so I can read the scathing letters. Keep it up people.
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Salon is Holding a Lazy Contest.
I finally get it! It all makes sense!
Salon is holding a contest to see who can be the laziest. Think about it: it explains a lot about some of the current slate of regular Salon contributors. Who can phone in their performance with less actual thought or effort? Let's examine our current frontrunners in the "Lazier Than Thou" Pageant:
Contestant # 1: Camille Paglia. Old hat rambler. Current offerings a la Larry King's old USA Today columns that jump incoherently from subject to subject, often covering political commentary lifted from Limbaugh and recycled celebrity worship from the late 1980s/early 1990s. Obviously typed each month in twenty minutes while simultaneously flipping back and forth between Fox News and VH-1.
Contestant # 2: Stephanie Zacharek. Kneejerk iconoclast. Like Mikey, she hates pretty much everything, which makes reviewing a breeze. Reviews practically write themselves when you just know you'll dislike something in advance. It's as easy as when Larry King reviews films, just in reverse-- he pretty much loves everything (anyone sensing a "Larry King" trend at Salon?). "There Will Be Blood"? Hated It. "No Country for Old Men"? Hated It. "Sweeney Todd"? Hated It. ZZZZzzzzz... for Zacherek! "Entertainment Weekly" provides a handy chart of critics letter grades. Zacharek's this week (a typical week for her on the charts) reads thusly: D,B,D,D+,C-,C-. Anyone sensing a trend there? (The single "B" grade is for the stellar "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days." Out of the ten critics on the chart, Zacharek is the only one to give it less than an "A" level score. My, isn't she ever the rebel?)
Contestant # 3: Schlesinger & Bachtell. Milquetoast absurdists. Apparently read some of the old "Raw" magazines Art Spiegelman edited and totally missed the point. Brilliantly abstract cartoons have a distinct viewpoint, but randomness mixed with a way-too-often parodied form (noir) like Kansas O'Flaherty is just lukewarm, self-conscious hackdom. The problem isn't that the strips make no sense (see David Lynch's "Angriest Dog in the World" from back in the '80s, for an example of how inspired randomness can be funny); it's that the strip refuses to commit to either wild absurdism or pointed coherence. It's like your middle-of-the-road neighbors who think it's "naughty" to come over to your house every week half-stoned on pot and act self-consciously "crazy." Take a real risk: try something harder.
So there you have it: the top three contestants vying for Salon's "I Can Barely Lift a Pen/Pass Me the Bon Bons" Award. Who Will Win? Doesn't matter, as none of them is likely to show up to pick up the award, as that might cause a variation in easy-breezy tried-and-true routines.
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OMFnG I can't believe we still have to wade through this cr@p
ça suffit.
No more letters from me about this here. Just one a week to the editors about how my premium sub is NOT renewing.
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@ Linsel
The black thing is his eyebrows. The seagull is her lips, the wingnut is her mouth, the four parallel lines are her fingers. The lamp keeps changing size and it's lightbeams illuminate at a 90-degree angle (look at the diary). I can think of no words to describe his mouth, although "Larry King" comes to mind.