Dear Jason,
Wooooo #5 just arrived in my mailbox, and I am downright disgusted…
by how great it is! It is by far the best thing that I have read all day, and let me tell you that my opinion matters! Until today, the word “interview” made me cringe– in other magazines the pieces on these fantastic artist-people seem to revel in their accomplishments while casually discussing how exciting and fabulous their lives are. I’m like “wow!” and “that’s terrific!” while reading that shit, but am secretly bored and depressed and feeling guilty about how badly I SUCK by comparison. The contrast is just too intense for my frail ego. The stuff in Wooooo, however, is such relief! That Jerry Hsu interview? Hello! Too good! It’s real, it’s funny, it’s a rare treat! It’s like… It’s so good that I just wanna… It’s better than… WOOOOO IS SO FUCKING AWESOME!!!
I noticed that on the last page there is an ad for work– is this a joke? Do you really hire help? Man, I would work for free. I’m just graduating from college next month and already have a job lined up in Tokyo for the fall, but I really, really want to work on something like Wooooo really bad. For serious. Isn’t there a job for me? Isn’t there ANY thing I could do? I’ll even work your day-job while you do the magazine. No, wait, not that. But anything else! Let me know if you want me to send in some naked photos or whatever. You’re the best!
Sincerely,
Sam Metteer

That was nice.
Today is a sucky day here at the WOOOOO HQ. It’s raining, the cover shoot got rescheduled, we ran out of tea… could be worse-
We could be ‘Ricky’, the most bummed out kid who ever lived.

Here’s another excellent example of how to approach people you don’t know with a request-

Hi Mr. Crombie,
Do you need an intern at Wooooo for the summer?I go to film school at Bard College and
would like to work at Wooooo. I tried to work at Index Magazine as an intern last
summer, but they didn’t have anything for me to do since they stopped printing the
magazine. I work on weekends now, but I will be available
to work during the week starting in May or June. My cell phone number is (XXX) XXX-XXXXX. My
name is Sam Hayes. thanks

The ‘Mr.’ bit was an excellent touch.
We do reply to letters by the way. We don’t just post our favorites on the site.