Stoner bought the current issue of Rolling Stone, the one with Taylor Swift on the cover.
Who is Taylor Swift? Stoner doesn't know, but she has a face he'd expect to see on a milk carton, not on the cover of a national magazine someone over the age of 11 might purchase.
Inside, there's a story about The End Times For Detroit, written by a native son (of an unnamed suburb) with a degree from an (unnamed) Ivy League school, whose previous piece for the magazine was about...Iceland! There's his picture, in the Contributors sidebar up front...
There's a five-star review of the forthcoming album by U2, a band that Stoner would not piss on were they consumed by flame.
Then, in the back pages, you find the answer to the question "What's this issue of Rolling Stone really about?" -- a quarter-page ad taken out by David Crosby, in hope of selling his yacht.
If you're in the market, the details are HERE.
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The price is firm, at $1,000,000, but he's willing to throw in his pre-1994 liver.
Finally got around to reading the RS article on Detroit and the auto industry. My question is why RS would publish this piece 20 years after its relevance. It’s old news. The only interesting point the author makes is that Detroit is a harbinger of things to come for the rest of the nation. It signals the end of the American middle class. This trend has been obvious to me since, oh, about 1980. The most recent economic meltdown is the consequence of the last, desperate gasp of the middle class to cling to its status through unsustainable borrowing. The last 60 years of a growing middle class has been an aberration in the history of mankind. We are returning to the more traditional structure of a small ruling class and a large underclass. I’m waiting for the successor to Reagan and W. to finish the job. Give the masses religion and the threat of a foreign threat to keep them in check. Welcome to the New Middle Ages.
Umm... this was all obvious to you in 10th grade?
Yes. Ask Stoner.
I finally got around to reading the Detroit story. I don't see why Rocky's panties are so bunched up - the story was very well written, often darkly humorous, and timely, considering the recent national economic turndown. I wonder - and perhaps Stoner or Le Marquis can answer this - are the descriptions of a razed, neo-savanna Detroit really accurate?
I can't swear to the year, but I did hear this prediction in high school.
Also, something about a black president...and sacrificing an old friend atop the Temple of the Giant Jaguar...but I was late for class, and the details are a blur.
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