On Friday, we finally caught up with the pre-orders for the reprints of Volume 1 of the True book collection. One recipient complained: “I was bummed that my books came packaged with Styrofoam ‘peanuts’. I can’t believe that any world-conscious business would buy those dang things and pollute our planet! Can’t you use something else? There is a new product out that uses recycled newspapers, for instance.”
Reader Feedback
Why Don’t More People Hate Me?
After running some reader letters, David in Maryland wrote in reply: “How come you never run any of them that are from people who are not enamoured of you, if it is considered a ‘letters to the editor’ space?”
Steve Wozniak: a Satisfied True Reader
(Updated: See below.)
Rants and Raves over “Austin Powers”
One of the first highly controversial stories in True, with some readers loving it, and others hating it. So let’s start with the story that started it all (in the 18 July 1999 issue):
I Wanted to Hear Some Complaints
Complaints? Really? Really.
Good Clean Fun
I’m in Southern California, where I’ll again be giving the after-dinner wake-up speech at the Skeptics Society’s annual conference in Pasadena, Calif.
Fun Mail, Funny Male
While I’m not always able to reply to email, I love getting comments from readers — I do personally read them all. I even appreciate the bad stuff. I prefer the fun stuff, of course, but even rants can be useful. Here’s one of each type, so you get the idea:
Your Source for Medical Info…?
A U.S. doctor who reads True was distressed over the story on “exploding head syndrome”.
A Moment for a Serious Issue
I was quite honored last week to get a copy of the new Breast Cancer Resource Guide of Massachusetts, which lists This is True as a leading Humor Resource for victims of breast cancer. They sent it to me for a very special reason.
Roto-Reuter
Every once in a while I get a note asking why I use the credit “(Reuter)” instead of “(Reuters)”.
Letter to the Editor
After nearly a year and a half of publication, and commonly getting about 300 emails per day from readers, I finally actually publish a few letters to the editor.