I won't be renewing my scrip to Rolling Stone (semi-lame)

The BBQ Pit
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Rolling Stone used to be held up as one of the hallmarks of good journalism. The magazine invented the “rock critic.”

Tom Wolfe. William Greider and Hunter S. Thompson graced RS’s pages many times over the years, Thompson even has the title of National affairs correspondant.

Unfortunately, to say that Thompson has been phoning it in for the past 15 years would be putting it kindly.

Greider left and his vacancy hasn’t even been addressed, let alone been filled.

In other words, RS’s standards, while not quite on the Weekly World News level, have been sinking towards the toilet very quickly.

Recently there was the article about men who deliberately try and attain Aids/HIV through unprotected sex and the tone of the article made it seem like this was a new epidemic sweeping the country.

It has since been shown that much of the article was hyperbole or outright untruths.

But it was the latest issue which has resulted in my decision not to put any more money in Jann Wenners coffers.

It’s issue #924.

There is an article about Mr. Big aka Jonah Falcon.link Mr. Big has a 9 inch cock. That’s when it isn’t erect. When it is erect it’s 13.5 inches long.

It isn’t that the writing in the article wasn’t good, because it was.

It’s just that I read the article and then sat there, thinking to myself, "Why the fuck would Rolling Stone run an article like this? It doesn’t fit with their target demographic, which is males 13-32. Hell, I can’t really figure what demographic this article would fit. And what the fuck was the point of the article? That there is a guy who truly has a huge cock and yet instead of it being the greatest thing in the world and bringing him everything he’s ever wanted, the guy still lives with his mom and comes off as a more then just a little creepy?

I can’t begin to imagine how the idea for this article was pitched to the editors.

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Music magazines are ridiculous and stupid. I’m sure that a few good niche mags exist, but anything mainstream is required to suck because of the overwhelming subjectivity of music.

I’d say that you should cancel based on that anyway. You don’t need a magazine as worthless as that.

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And it ends with a story of an eighteen year old woman having sex with a ten year old boy IN CASE WE WEREN’T DISTURBED ENOUGH BY THAT POINT?!

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Your tolerance is greater than mine. I stopped subscribing about 10 years ago. I got sick to death of covers with provocative pictures of untalented actresses and all the inside coverage devoted to mediocre Hollywood crap. Obviously the sexy covers were aimed at the 13-32 YO males, and RS isn’t interested in holding on to other demographic groups. It’s just a shame that RS doesn’t feel it can stay afloat as a serious music magazine.

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I don’t think he actually lives with his mom, the article doesn’t say that. Just that they called her. He even states that he rarely lived with his mom as a child.

OTOH, as far as I’m concerned, he might as well live with his mom, because he’s not good looking, and geez…keep that damn thing far far away from me.

Lastly, that eighteen year old girl…nasty, just nasty.

~J

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Welcome back! I killed my long standing scrip a couple of years ago. I couldn’t contribute to their existence any longer. They used to be cool. Now they just plain suck. I think Wenner’s lost it. Good riddance.

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What does a guy with a TEN inch dick have for breakfast?

Well…this morning I had eggs…toast…coffee…

old joke

I like this guy. He wears Yankee pinstripe pants 2 sizes too small because …damnit! he’s a Yankee fan.

And to think, I wanted to take my daughter to New York AND to Yankee stadium for her H.S. graduation gift.

Do any of you NY dopers know what section this guy sits in? (Cmon Lola!, fess up)

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Thelonious Monk said it best: writing about music is like dancing about architecture. If Rolling Stone is even half as bad as the NME has become, then I think instead of cancelling subscriptions they ought to be redirected to landfill sites as a public service.

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Good for you. I stopped reading it when an an article on Michael Jackson (this was mid-to-late '80s) referred to him as " the most talented singer and dancer in the world." What?? What universe was that guy living in?

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I stopped reading when they stopped printing on newsprint and you didn’t have to unfold it in the middle any more. You can’t really have a counter culture magazine when there’s not a recognizable counter culture anymore.

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Oh my god-that’s gotta be fucking PAINFUL!

:eek:

shudder

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Care to explain?

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I believe she is referring to that lad’s unit.

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Looks like Elvis Costello said that first.

cite: http://home.pacifier.com/~ascott/they/tamildaa.htm

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Heh. Jonah Falcon was a vocal regular on rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc back when I was a lurker there. I remember him as being pretty funny and relatively nice. (And it was him; I saw pictures from MiSTie gatherings to confirm it. And I’ll leave the implications of that sentence to your imagination. :))

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Good to know every little community has their Silo:smiley:

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Just like I stopped watching MTV when they stopped playing music videos… I cancelled my subscription to RS when they stopped covering music.

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Nobody knows who said the “tap dancing about architecture” quote first. It’s been attributed to Frank Zappa and Lester Bangs as well as Monk and Costello.

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I’m proud to say that I’ve never had a subscription, but I was pretty pissed when Joe Strummer died, and instead of giving him the whole cover, they just mentioned it in a blurb positioned right next to JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE’S ABS.

(yes, I realize it happened late in the month and it would have been a pain in the ass to put him on the cover, but he deserved it more that that girly bastard, dammit.)
rae

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I somehow got stuck with “The Subscription That Won’t Die!” to this piece of shit rag. I’m just waiting for it to go away. When the issue in question arrived, I too thought “What the fuck is the point of this non-sense?”

The cover looks like the “Gallery of Bad Tattoos”.

Fagjunk Theology: Not just for sodomite propagandists anymore.