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DEAR VICE - RE/SEARCH RIPOFF?

Dear

Vice

, My roommate has bedbugs. I live on a separate floor from her and have managed to keep my space taped off from her dinge-lair so far, but I went to Target to get one of those plastic sheathes you put around your mattress just to be safe. Anyways, check out the packaging on this thing. How flagrant is that? I figure this was either the work of some lazy graphic designer who got stuck on deadline and thought "Whatever, no one's ever heard of

Re/Search

, I'm fine," or some sly Temple of Psychic Youth kid who decided to apply Genesis P-orridge's theory on cultural sampling to bedlinens. Your thoughts? MAXINE D.

Brooklyn, NY

Vice responds: You left out the possibility that Target's marketing people are just hip to the large cross-section of people who still care about Re/Search and people whose "roommates" have bedbugs.