Can it be done again? It's been a while since Jann Wenner kicked the American counterculture into another league with RS. 40 odd years I think. That's a long time to be cool... the fact that it's not actually that cool anymore doesn't even matter. I still buy it every month and leave it lying around whatever the content. It's more of a status symbol coffee-table thing than a great read these days - I always preferred Creem to Rolling Stone but there's still something intrinsically neat about it.

Could it be that for right or wrong reasons, whatever your opinion on their writers, photographers and politics, they still do what they damn well please. Even if it is to sell as many magazines as possible - after all, that is the game they're in and nobody knows better how much that game can fuck your life over if you get it wrong than me! Mr Wenner I salute you...

Reason for post about Rolling Stone? I'm going to be doing some scraps here and there. Nothing big but small acorns get eaten by squirrels and all that. As with SKY, there will be no repeats here or duped content elsewhere so I'll hook it in over on the right hand column.

Cool.