Some hefty competition for stupidest letter of the month in the current Interview. Although an epistle about Amy Winehouse came close ("Any woman who can write a whole song about refusing to go to rehab and sound like Shirley Bassey is all right in my book! I'm eager to hear the music") came close, we feel that the item at right (click to enlarge) best represents the passel of feeble-minded cretins who take the time to express their slavish approval of the magazine's third-grade-level hagiographies.

Our obsession with the vapid jackasses who write letters to Interview magazine continues to pay dividends. The April issues features a pantheon of imbecility, almost all of it in praise of that publication's recent issue devoted to Elizabeth Taylor. (The one letter to range off-topic applauds the magazine's website, which is heinous.) Someone really ought to do a study on the stable of dolts who correspond with Interview: Are they the dumbest people ever to achieve literacy, or some separately-evolved race of beings for whom writing fawning letters to an oversized celebrity rag affords some sort of protection from predators? In any event, here's our favorite invention from this month's issue. Click to enlarge.

So we've been enjoying the letters to Interview of late, but a tipster has chosen to shatter our faith in the epistles' integrity.

We admit it, we deliberately trawled through the new Interview in hopes that we'd find a letter even stupider than last month's disaster. Guess what? We found one! Even better, this one comes "VIA the internet," so you know it's extra stupid. At some point we'd like to host a gathering composed solely of people who get their letters published in Interview but we worry that they might have a hard time finding their way to the venue. Or dressing themselves beforehand. Click to englarge.

A friend of ours was between jobs and freelancing for a major celebrity-oriented publication when she was assigned the unpleasant task of selecting the "letters to the editor" for the mag. "It was so depressing," she recounted. "I had always assumed half of them were made up. But no, people really cared about this shit." A propos of that, here's a letter from the latest Interview. Can you imagine what they don't publish? Click to englarge.

The Smoking Gun obtained the "Pop Culture Test" prospective Interview employees are forced to undergo when they apply for a job at that super-fabulous publication. As our brief excerpt above indicates, we will probably not be working there any time soon. Seriously, who the fuck is Karole Armitage?

Is it just us, or has this been the longest week ever?

The new poster child for the dot-com bubble wasn't even a real company. In an exclusive IM interview, SingleStat.us coder David Weekly explains how a weekend project earned way too much attention before flaming out.

— is more fun than being you. The snacky flacky with his own PR blog got interviewed by Bite PR blogger Daniel Bernstein last week, so I pinged Jeremy for a follow-up interview.

Local hacker "Memehacker" IMed in with a scoop on Alan Ralsky, the famed "Spam King" covered by the Observer and the Detroit News. Here's the breaking story:

Valleywag's cyborg brother Gizmodo chatted with Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube. The video site just took $8 mil from Sequoia Capital, refueling buyout rumors. Hurley danced a decent two-step around the million-dollar question.

Sean Parker's reaction to today's techie-spotting item, Sean Parker pisses off Lindsay Lohan: "The least you can do is use a pic that looks like me." Done. And the Facebook founding president sat down to IM (at my request) about the incident:

Josh Quittner wants his wife in fancy lingerie. According to her New York Times shopping column, the Business 2.0 editor begged Michelle Slatalla to wear something with "suspenders and satin bows and more truss work than the Eiffel Tower." Josh was denied this pleasure, and Michelle chose more sensible options (and blogged the less sensible).

Sand Hill Slave has been bitching — hilariously — about her work as an admin assistant at a couple of VC firms. The anonyblogger's tagline, "I No Longer Fear Hell for I work in Venture Capital," implies that she's just the sort of girl Valleywag should chat with. So I did.