This has been done before, most notably by Don Novello’s alter-ego Lazlo Toth: writing letters to public figures and corporations with advice and complaints etc., and then re-printing the replies. The Letters From the Freakin’ Edge printed here are too whacked to be taken seriously and with a name like John Doh and a PO Box address attached you have to figure that the Proctor & Gambles and Kimberly-Clarks of the world can see right through the whole set-up. Better that Doh seek out the fine line that would instead get the corporations onto a razor’s edge. As it is, their responses are bland and rarely address the original letters. A valid insight into corporate mentality perhaps, but then we already knew that. Best letter here is worthy of Frank magazine – it’s a transparent piece of bait addressed to Reform M.P. Darrel Stinson about Jean Charest and Stinson blindly indulges himself in response. (DF)
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