{"id":2429,"date":"2010-08-12T12:36:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T17:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2010-08-12T13:25:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T18:25:17","slug":"obit-watch-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=2429","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch."},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone and his brother is on this already, but I have to get my kicks in: “Cathy<\/a>“. (Chicago Tribune<\/strong><\/a>.)<\/p>\n

The best commentary I’ve seen so far is from Josh and his gang over at the Comics Curmudgeon website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With “Cathy” gone, that takes care of one of the comics on my top ten hit list. Now if we could only do something about “The Amazing (Glacial) Spider-Man”, “Gasoline Alley”, “Funky Winkerbean”, and “Crankshaft”, I’d be a very happy man.<\/p>\n

Edited to add: Lawrence was on my case because I didn’t mention “Dinette Set” in the above list. I pointed out that I didn’t intend for that to be a complete list. Then I went and clicked on the Chron <\/strong>link for today’s “Dinette Set”<\/a>, just to make sure the damn thing was still being published.<\/p>\n

Wow. This isn’t even just “not funny”.\u00a0 This doesn’t even approach “what’s the deal with airline food?” levels. There’s not even an attempt at humor here; this is just someone who can’t draw or write, recounting an event without giving us any clue as to why we should find this interesting or amusing.<\/p>\n

Reddit’s “anti-joke” thread<\/a> is funnier than this. Heck, your average NYT<\/strong> editorial is funnier than this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone and his brother is on this already, but I have to get my kicks in: “Cathy“. (Chicago Tribune.) The best commentary I’ve seen so far is from Josh and his gang over at the Comics Curmudgeon website. With “Cathy” gone, that takes care of one of the comics on my top ten hit list. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}