This video stuff is fine once in a while, but some of us still like writing.

By the way, did I miss the memo about calling it the "Swimsuit Edition" instead of the "Swimsuit Issue"? Issue seems more appropriate, since every other one they publish is called an issue. But maybe since the swimsuit publication is a franchise in itself, it is more correct to call it an edition? Seriously, everyone seems to be calling it "Swimsuit Edition" these days. Did the copy editors (or SI's lawyers) send out a notice recently?

Does the SE even have any other sports in it? It used to when I was a kid, but I haven't seen it lately. Seriously, I haven't!

King! You are the only Salon writer who looks better than the Salon Writer cartoon. And your voice is pretty good. Too bad you are stuck with Posada. Will you take Bandon Inge?

Great !!

Now instead of reading KK's article I have to hear and watch it ?

What is wrong with this world ? From my personal experience I can tell you none ( NONE) of my friends read any more (other then what they need to because of their jobs in the IT business). Nada

I just finished reading "Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer" , what a great book.

So King is now going the same way , not writing any more. I sob for the future.

Let me tell you one thing, if KK daily piece is now going to be a video clip , I am going to cancel my Salon subscription.

I watch youtube video with the best of them all but this sucks King Kaufman !!

Your actual voice sounds both remarkably close and eerily different from the version I hear in my head when I read your stuff. I'm not sure what I think about that yet.

And, question in re the Grandpa hat: Did Buster become the Early Breedin'est Four-Year-Old in the world, or did you adopt?

King, you did a great job of producing a funny little TV show, rather than just giving us your talking head.

I don't know, I kind of enjoyed the video. It's not Dave Chappelle, but certainly a lot more interesting than any other Salon columnist doing video. Not so bad for something different. Maybe we could hear about King's fantasy team in a column... but only if his team is terrible. The only thing worse than hearing about someone else's fantasy team is hearing about someone else's 'great' team. Sort like how it used to be cool to listen to Red Sox fans.

It's more better.

Seriously . . . I can't skim a video and they're slow. And unless you're actually doing filmmaking, there's less craft involved.

You make me feel old.

But this was pretty well done and not the sort of thing that translates to writing.

King, please let the other people at Salon know that sitting in front of a white wall reading a monologue is not a good way to utilize video technology.

I guess I now belong in the dustbin of technology and culture, because I like to go to the web to find stuff to read, but every site I visit seems to want to make me watch more things. I can already that this is going to be a transition that I will not appreciate . . .

What would happen if you took all the real baseball teams, and treated them as fantasy baseball teams? Would it come out the same as the real standings?

1. You switched hats. (What was that earlier hat with the bell on the front?)

2. You brought the dog on at the end.

I Agree: I enjoy your writing style, King, so I enjoy reading your column - great insights, too, usually.

I agree: I like the video, too. Your humor still came through - good Michael Moore man on the street imitation - and it is much more amusing than the talking head stuff the other Salon writers produce. You do look better than your cartoon.

I also really hope that you warned that poor fellow that you were going to be rude to him, on camera, for all the world to see - how bery bery Borat of you

One of the reasons that I subscribe to Salon is being able to read the work of writers. If I wanted talking heads I would turn on the TV- which I won't cause I live in Singapore and the local TV sucks.

I will be another to let my subscription expire if KK goes Hollywood.

I don't mind the occasional video KK but don't do away with your actual written column ok?

Capisce?

...love the column, and i'd stick with that. this sort of stuff on video is very hard to pull off; there is plenty of slightly funny stuff out there, you need to be really good to make it worthwhile. like you already are with the pen (well, keyboard anyway)

Finally a Salon columnist video who understands video.

This was more than just a column read to a camera. There was visual content that enhanced the words. It was actually worth watching!!

Hey Joan Walsh. This is how you use video.

Good job, King! I, for one, hope that you do more.

More Swimsuit.. less King!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, this is not my thing. Reading is my thing. There are approximately 1 trillion short, funny videos on the web. I don't watch them.

Reading gives me access to words and thoughts. Video just gives me access to some guy I don't know. I'm sure this is very 21st century, and, you know, cool for the kids, but the adults in the room would like to have a column to read.

King- Well done, but don't give up your day job, which I hope is still writing a column. I would enjoy videos on occasion, but like lots of your fans, still want the written word. How about something about the weekly injury reports from the NFL. Go for Juan Gonzalez with the Cards, or Kenny Rogers of the Tigers. Its a year for old guys....