meelie | (Australian) Empire Magazine, turns out I *do* know how to quit you!

email #1
Subject: inception is awesome, misuse of punctuation is not

Dear empire,

I love your magazine, especially when I am about to get on a plane. I will read it from cover to cover, only occasionally cringing at the disinclusion of women("tallest directors" includes not one female director? The way you constantly talk down to anyone of the female persuasion in your letters page).

I am getting away from the point! Point is, I saw your Inception cover issue and purchased it(amazingly, not in an airport!) as I love Inception. I haven't read the article yet, but noticed with interest the words on the cover under Inception: The Matrix meets 007 "on steroids!" - will someone in the article be quoted saying this, or are you using quotation marks for emphasis? if so, cut it out.

My Name

the letter and response that was printed:

"Quote Query"
I saw your Inception cover issue and purchased it. I haven't read the article yet, but noticed with interest the words on the cover under Inception: The Matrix meets 007 "on steroids!" - will someone in the article be quoted saying this, or are you using quotation marks for emphasis? if so, cut it out.

My Name, via Email

(editors response): Why don't you read it and find out?

email #2

Subject: not cool...

Hey Empire guys(and one hopes, girls)!

I recently had my first plane trip where I didn't buy an issue of Empire to assist me in the bleak period of time when electronic devices are turned off. The reason for this is, while catching up on my back issue reading, I read the letters page of issue XXX and was surprised to see a letter of mine had been published(original email below). I was excited that you thought my email about issue XXX, in which I was mean about your use of emphasis over quotation, was worth printing!

But then I read that every letter published was getting a free blu ray copy of the godfather. huh. I checked my email and my spam folders and found no email telling me I was getting a free blu ray. What's up with that? I have been meaning to write this email for awhile, but when I was in the newsagents at the airport looking at magazines and my friend asked me why I would buy your magazine after getting overlooked, I couldn't answer.

(I must admit, it was the sherlock holmes 2 cover/current issue, if it had been an Avengers cover I probably could have overcome my moral objections)

In conclusion, where is my letter prize? I am not a huge godfather fan, but if you have any X-Men First Class blu rays lying around, I will happily accept that instead...

Eagerly awaiting your reply asking for my mailing address to make up for this slight,

My Name

email #3

Subject: RE: not cool...

Hello

How are you? Thanks for your email.

Very sorry about this, no idea what happened there.

Alas we don’t have any Godfather discs so can I offer you one of the following on Blu-ray

The Other Guys
Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver
Scarface
The Last Airbender
Jackass 3D

Let me know which title and confirm your postal address and I’ll pop the disc in the post.

Cheers
Some Guy

All of those movies are dude heavy, violent, and/or awful. Faillllllllll FAIL FAILLLLLLLLLL.

Now, to decide if I completely reject or take one for the point of it. or tell them that I would rather pay through the nose for the UK version of Empire than buy their shitty magazine ever again.

undecided! and annoyed!