Letters to the Editor
Alex Tucker
Published Letters: 161 Editor's Choice: 20
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Amspeck, I believe it really was an smackdown
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since Lay never mentioned who the other woman was, I did some digging online. The only other female at her signing table appears to be woman who calls herself "Molly Crabapple". Judging from her site, I gleaned Crabapple is an attractive woman who enjoys attention and REALLY isn't shy about marketing herself. Her blog postings are fairly libertine. Crabapple's website has a lot of (tasteful) nudes on it, and her drawing style just happens to mirror Lay's depiction. It's just speculation on my part, mind you, but it does seem to fit together.
Normally I'd agree with you about a comparison between reality and fantasy, but this isn't one of those times. This was a simple, petty smackdown on Lay's part. If I had to sit next to this person for hours on end, I'd be pretty fucking cranky as well.
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Pay attention to the comments, Carol
[Read the article: Math doesn't suck, it buys you Gucci]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hope Carol actually peeks in from time to time to read these comments. A forceful response from the readers -- positive or negative -- at the very least means we're paying attention to you. All we ask is you extend to us the same courtesy. It's things like this that really make Salon.com a true salon for ideas.
BTW - Crone? Feh. Cranky? Meh. I turn 40 in eight days. I get the crank angle.
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Loved it!
[Read the article: The K Chronicles ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That was a terrific jibe from a cartoonist who rarely shows his political side. Kudos!
Oh, and a giant "screw you" to chickenshit cowards who post anonymously. At least "earnest" Keef has the courage of his convictions; where the hell are yours?
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recycled
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is an old strip from about five or so years ago. Carol must be on vacation.
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@ deering
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I respectfully disagree with you about the strip -- I'm going to give it some more time before I tank it (though not THAT much. But you're dead-on about "Get Your War On" and "Shooting War". Those two definitely deserve serious attention.
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vacation
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Carol's probably on vacation. This was published in her 1998 anthology, "Strip Joint". Good story, though.
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@ Sandy Yago
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Those are teeth... she did that for a while as kind of a "signature".
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week after week...
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...it seems like Schlesinger and Bachtell get the biggest joy imaginable from creating a purposely bad comic that only they and three of their friends in TriBeCa get. In fact, I'm sure of it. A new definition is needed for this kind of teeth-aching, hipper-than-thou, faux PoMo pretentiousness. Takers?
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Quelle irony!
[Read the article: How bashing Hillary backfired]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Funny how Joe accurately points out the unceasing shrillness of the Hillary Haters, then Salon showcases Camille Paglia in the very next column. Oh, Salon, you puckish imps!
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On a scale...
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...of 1 to 10, this goes to a bajillion and six. When Carol hits one, it reaches the stratosphere.
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week after week
[Read the article: The K Chronicles ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Week after week, Keefy's always neck-and-neck with Ruben as my fave Salon cartoonist. That last panel still has me cackling.
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Born to cheat
[Read the article: I'm afraid I'll be unfaithful to my husband]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I was a gawky, weird girl who turned unexpectedly into a beautiful one at some point in college."
Well, at least she doesn't have self-image issues.
That she's even thinking about cheating means, at some point, she will do it. Could be next week or ten years from now, but she will. She's already convinced herself as such. Just come clean with the guy. Either he's cool with it and you can have an open relationship, or you two part ways with no further damage done.
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as long as you're reading it...
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...it'll stay. Doesn't matter how many negative letters KOF gets - at least it's getting them. Want it to disappear? Quit giving it hits. Everytime you click on it and/or give it any acknowlegment, it'll stick around. (That having been written, here I go contradicting my own advice. Yes, I'm aware.)
Once again I maintain Toni Schlesinger is an uber-trendoid who should stick to writing about the digs of Manhattan's super-hipster millionaires. She only does this on a lark, and the more negative letters she gets - and I'm fairly certain she pokes her head in now and then - make her throw back her head and laugh while she writes this meta-crapola.
Still curious why Douglas Wolk isn't weighing in on KOF. Professional courtesy to a fellow Salonista?
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pay attention, Koppelman
[Read the article: Democratic debate sort-of-live blogging continued]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Koppelman's blow-by-blow would have more resonance if he were actually commenting on the crowd response inside the L.A. auditorium rather than the reactions of the people around him -- otherwise, he would have paid attention to the fact the crowd openly hissed and booed Blitzer for such a naked attempt to bait her. I'm not even for Hillary but come on, Koppelman! Give her that one!
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Hipsters joined at the proverbial hip.
[Read the article: A mistake that should last a lifetime]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I read this article and kept thinking, "Jeez, I haven't felt this level of brain-dead hipness since Toni Schlesinger's latest installment of 'Kansas O'Flaherty'. Why does all this seem so familiar?"
Then I Googled "Jessanne Collins" and came up with this:
http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0550,schlesinger,70894,15.html
Circle of life.
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beaten to the punchline
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Damn you, Diablo! You beat me to it! I figured there'd be about forty posts of people saying "Huh? I don't get it" before someone mentioned 'cutting one's nose off'. Well said, my liberal arts-edjumacated friend.