Welcome to Media Guy RAW!, aka Reader Appreciation Week. I should start by noting that I get an insane amount of e-mail (increasingly from around the globe) in response to this column. While I'm not always able to personally answer every e-mail, I do actually read every single last one.

Including the e-mail that came in last weekend with the subject line “We are certain that we can get you laid.” I thought it was, perhaps, a confident note from a blogger in response to last week's column, in which I suggested that a lot of people read the best, most popular blogs in part because keeping up on cultural talking points makes them “more interesting, more attractive ... more f***able.” But then I actually opened up this e-mail.

Meanwhile, a reader named Catina Acree writes that my bashing of the Tom Ford Vanity Fair cover made her “laugh out loud a few times like a manic dirty person with a blanket at a bus stop.” She also added, “I think I'm in love with you!,” which made me think that perhaps she really is a manic dirty person with a blanket at a bus stop, but it turns out that she works in the marketing department at Capitol Records in Los Angeles.

By the way, judging from my inbox, it seems to me that if there's one consensus that the global community can arrive at in these troubled times, it's that Tom Ford's Vanity Fair cover was unforgiveable. In addition to countless rants from American readers, I got Ford-bashing e-mails from several European cites where American Vanity Fair is available on newsstands.

To me, that sounds like a new reality show. Here's the elevator pitch: Paris Hilton makes fun of poor people! Oh, wait, that show already exists. It's called “The Simple Life,” and it just began filming its fourth season last week.

Speaking of simple, I got way too many SMP (Simple Media Pleasure) nominations (which I solicited from readers in my Feb. 13 column). But I'll single out one that came from Boston-based Dick Greenleaf, who is fond of wolfgangsvault.com, online home of the archives of legendary rock promoter Bill Graham. The site recently launched the streaming Internet station Vault Radio, which plays long-lost recordings of live performances by everyone from Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young to Stevie Wonder and The Sex Pistols. Truly astonishing.

The confusion is understandable: Both were Gilda Radner creations, and both would appear on “SNL's” “Weekend Update” to natter on endlessly and cluelessly about random stuff.

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