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]]> <![CDATA[Do Magazines Invent Letters? Hell Yes!]]> I always loved making up the letters most of all. Was the icing on the cake. I'd never leave that most crucial and delicious task to an underling. It's especially satisfying when you get to answer yourself. The only time I didn't have to make up letters was when I was doing Metal Mania magazine. Those readers were outstanding participators! And I'd get to answer "fuck you, you idiot!" or words to that effect. They loved it.

roseofkillvankull

]]> <![CDATA[Do Magazines Invent Letters? Hell Yes!]]> Is Blueboy hiring? Mother will be so proud.

raincoaster

]]> <![CDATA[Do Magazines Invent Letters? Hell Yes!]]> I always wondered who these people were who lived in a cave and wanted to know such outdated information about celebrities. Parade readers.

"I really love Demi Moore! I heard she was married. Is it true?"

Maulleigh

]]> <![CDATA[Do Magazines Invent Letters? Hell Yes!]]> I know it is hard to fathom that a reputable magazine like Life & Style could fabricate something but as a former editor there I can safely say that they make up all of the letters in the rag, oh yea, and also the content.

hautedamn

]]> <![CDATA[Do Magazines Invent Letters? Hell Yes!]]> Blueboy's Wikipedia entry is a gold mine:

Beginning in the 1990s however, with competition from such gay lifestyle and political publications as Out, MetroSource and Genre, the magazine has focused much more on hardcore gay images, and has jettisoned most of its non-porn content. Article content now included such fare as "Cum Lords: Hottest Young Whores From theSleaziest Parts of the World," "Panic Attack: Enormous Spitting Cocks," and "Cowboys and Leathermen: The Macho Beat Goes On."

dmac

]]> <![CDATA[Do Magazines Invent Letters? Hell Yes!]]> i dont think it's published anymore, blueboy i mean. according to wikipedia though it's mentioned in the first lines of shebop: Well, I see them every night in tight blue jeans in the pages of a Blueboy magazine

clandestino

]]> <![CDATA[Do Magazines Invent Letters? Hell Yes!]]> Having spent five years editing the Letters to the Editor of a certain well-known financial publication, I can say that 95% of the people who write letters to magazines are either Christian fundamentalists, prisoners, or people who want to promote their own businesses/inventions/modeling careers, and that 100% of the people who write letters to magazines are functionally illiterate. So you gotta do what you gotta do.

antisocialite

]]> <![CDATA[Do Magazines Invent Letters? Hell Yes!]]> I had a friend who used to write for, among other things, Guns & Ammo and Penthouse Letters. Rumor has it that he resigned over "artistic differences". Seems his editor would not let him publish a Penthouse letter that ended with a job-seeker fucking the interviewer. He wanted to title it "Would You Like To Take A Position On My Staff".

Clarence Rosario

]]> <![CDATA[Do Magazines Invent Letters? Hell Yes!]]> Not only did I make up letters when I was an assistant editor at a TV magazine (and assigned the no one-else-wants editorship of the letters column), but I made sure that my phony letters complimented the stories that I wrote.

Evill1

]]> <![CDATA[Do Magazines Invent Letters? Hell Yes!]]> that hieronymus is so hot right now.

genevieveyorke

]]> <![CDATA[Do Magazines Invent Letters? Hell Yes!]]> Maybe these "tips" are what have been fabricated here, eh?

Except the 'Redbook' one; I'll buy that. Not even fruitcakes or fabulists would waste time writing to 'Redbook.'

KarenUhOh

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