You drop the music section off at Boy George's home, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt, two CDs off the Straight's Top 50, and two tickets to a Live Nation club show in Vancouver within the next four weeks. Here's this week's winning whinge.

Dear Payback Time: Adrian Mack, you are not a very nice person. Make fun of the man-whore Adam Levine all you want, but you could have left the rest of the band out of your love- and angst-ridden review of Maroon 5. I know that having to go to a pop show is not many people's idea of a good time, but calling Mickey Madden a "quasi-Neanderthal hairball"? Mickey is a rare nice guy in the world of pop, and is at the very least an Iron Age hairball. Take pity on him it's bad enough that he has to go on after the Hives.

> Kent McIntosh

Adrian Mack replies: Dearest Kent Okay, I plead guilty. Adrian Mack is not a very nice person. But dickering over whether Madden is "quasi-Neanderthal" or "Iron Age" is silly I should have just written "ape-like" and saved everybody the trouble. I'd also ask that you don't mistake the name-calling for a lack of respect. If I'd had the space to really sink my teeth into that Maroon 5 review, I would have mentioned that Koko's extracurricular activities last year included production work for VietNam, another troop of orangutans responsible for one of 2007's best albums, the simply titled VietNam. My larger point would have been that, for a pop band, the Maroons conceal some pretty cool covert operators in their ranks no matter how much they buff the man-whore up front. The fact that neither Madden nor anybody in VietNam would look incongruous hanging out in a tree and flinging poop at each other should be irrelevant, I know, but c'mon. When you're as gorgeous as me, cheap shots like that tend to roll right off the pen, you know?

For taking the time to abuse us, Kent McIntosh takes home Bruce Springsteen's Magic and the Foo Fighters' Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. You can voice your impotent rage by snail mail or by e-mailing payback@straight.com.