Paul Konerko

An irregular posting from the New York Observer's mens' blog, The Cockpit—in which our manly hero reads the New York Times and realizes Peter Sagal has been utterly unmanned. The Incident at Comiskey OK, so I'm reading the New York Times Magazine, and I'm in "The Funny Pages," which everybody likes to say isn't funny, ha ha, get it? Except, you know, all the complainers are New York Times readers, by definition, which means they don't know from the funny pages, 'cuz if they did, they'd know that funniness is by no means a necessary quality for the actual funny pages, 'cuz otherwise Broom Hilda and Non Sequitur and Dennis the Menace would have been kicked to the curb long since. And Cathy, Jesus.

What defines the "funny pages" is that they have the FUNNIES on them, aka the comics, which the pedants should be warned are not necessarily comical, for instance, again, Cathy. Although some of them are comical, like Mark Trail. Man, it would be boss if Mark Trail showed up in Cathy and punched Cathy in the face. Pow!  read more »