Rich Mackin writes letters to corporations usually about problems he has with their advertising or packaging and then posts many of them to his Live Journal page. He’s got a book, too. These letters are a mix of poetry, humor and brilliance. And the guy can really write.
In a recent letter to Gillette about their use of pop-up ads he wrote …
Allow me to immediately digress in order to expound a bit on the word “hate”. Hate is a strong word. Tony Randall once said that we should reserve our use of “hate” for what is truly evil, such as war and racism. He prefers to say that he “despises” things, because when you despise something, you intensely dislike something that is beneath you. So, let me say that I both despise and hate pop up ads.