Subject: OMM 31 - "Papal Attraction"

Douglas Coupland confesses that he managed to hold out for 15 years without deigning to conduct an interview. May I suggest that he not return to attempt another in the near future? Fouling up a Morrissey interview is quite some feat, but he certainly managed it in your last issue. Morrissey can occasionally be glib and unrevealing at interview, it is true, but he's always entertaining, and can be genuinely illuminating given creative questioning. If your interviewer feels that his distinctly commonplace observations about the work - not to mention his hangover - are more worthy of public dissemination than the word of his distinguished interviewee, then he needs his head examining.

All best, etc.