"he's a sad and hilarious cliché."

Allen and Ceci are right. Ditko's a perfect capitalist patsy.

"Ditko has been doing exactly what you claim to be impossible. No wonder you seek to eradicate any trace of him."

What the fuck is this? I love Ditko's art. He's one of my favorites. And when did I ever suggest it's impossible to make slavishly pro-capital art under capitalism while making little money for it? That's just the artistic version of workers voting Republican -- like those guys who call in to talk radio, concerned about being fair to the rich. (Confer: Thomas Frank's Pity the Billionaire.)

I once talked to Larry King. But we talked about Duke Ziebert's.

Larry King needs to be eradicated.

He is pretty old so just wait a little while.

I get the feeling that if I knew what was going on here, I might say: leave me out of this!

But I don't . . .

Do you agree that Larry King needs to be eradicated?

That depends . . .

I thought King had retired from the planet . . .

Compared to who? Stan Lee? Jack Kirby? Artie Simek?