Dear Vice – Dead Cat Flap

It seems that almost every year when we’re putting together the Photo Issue, we get one or two shots that are extremely well-composed, have incredibly rich colors that make you feel like you’re looking at some ultrarealist oil painting, and just happen to be of some furry little critter who just happens to no longer be alive. And every year without fail we receive a diarrheic flume of angry letters accusing us of hating animals, killing animals, deserving to be killed instead of animals, etc., etc. This year’s letter-crop took so long getting started we thought it might just not come at all, but then, like the first of the spazzouts returning to Capestrano, we found this missive in our inbox and knew for sure that the universe was still functioning as usual and Fall was on the horizon:

Dear Vice,
The dead cat picture in the magazine was predictable and incredible boring. Get real. It reminds me of how common your publication can be. I don’t need that kind of shock anymore. Maybe your target audience still spends their time repeating high school pranks and can’t get a date. Then, yes, I can understand a picture of such poor taste being included in the issue. It’s such a stupid picture. Stop looking at road kill and get to the editing room.
Bbooorrrriiinnnnngggg,
CANDACE M