From: La Quinta Inns & Suites
Subject Line: Laugh Out Loud with Our New Video Spots
Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2007

I'd like to give a shoutout to Meg Reynolds at REI for forwarding along a particularly funny email from La Quinta. Yes, it is what it looks like it is: an ad for an ad. I'm all for "free breakfast, free high speed Internet, comfy beds and many new and newly renovated properties," and I understand that web video is apparently the bee's knees, but an email promoting "new commercials" to help subscribers "wake up on the bright side®" is perhaps a hair ridiculous?

Meg put it best: "Why do companies think people want to get an email about their commercials? This is the third email touting commercials I’ve seen in the past couple of weeks. But the first where it’s the subject line. Even if they’re hilarious, I think emailing your commercials is a weird (not to mention indulgent) idea."