Adrian Mack, if you are attempting to get some kind of point across about how disgusting the media and pop culture are ["Poon distracts the masses", March 8-15], I suggest that you start with your own column (or, rather, your turn at the podium of Pop Eye to try to win the "I'm the Grossest!" award) and your paper. Your writing was so heavily contrived, it's like you spent hours thinking up derogatory names for our naughty parts. I doubt that you or your boss will ever grow up and stop sniffing your fingers long enough to realize that you are an embarrassment to yourself and to Vancouver.

> Melanie Cookson / Vancouver