Open letter to all magazine editors
I am your loyal reader, yes, the one who’s been reading your publication religiously for [insert period here]. I love nothing better than reading your magazine, whether it is offline or online. To me, a typical Sunday afternoon means reading your magazine (other magazines, too) at Exclusive Books, Vida or Melissa’s. Wif a cigar if it isn’t too windy. It entertains me, and the people around me, too: I have a bad habit of laughing very loudly at something funny so I get many stares from people. From random, ugly people; good looking men with their Gants shopping bags never look at me… Oh, and Esquire, I <3 you.
Anyway. I still have important work to do… Like to tell you what I don’t like about your magazine.
This section applies to women’s magazines:
Stop sending me lotion and sanitary pad samples that I have to pry from the pages. Please. If you insist on sending me things, be nice and send something that doesn’t tear the pages of my beloved magazine when I rip out the sample. Because I will rip it out. I promise.
That’s all.
16 September 2008 at 1:52 pm
I also hate the millions of leaflets that clutter my mags. It really bothers me when hundreds of useless pieces of paper come pouring out. Advertising though, pays for what we read.
19 September 2008 at 8:35 pm
I’m SO with you on the annoying attachments. Amen!