Rolling Stone

I don’t like to admit I read Rolling Stone occasionally, but I do, usually on flights because it goes down real simple, like that diet of plain white toast and water you get on right after you’ve been vomiting a lot. The magazine’s celebrating its 40th anniversary, or at least that was the most recent issue put out at the lone gift shop in the Akron Canton Airport, but I did learn a few things:

1. Putting his fearsome musical prowess to the side, McCartney still comes across as sort of a twat to me.
2. Bob Dylan is the most difficult musician to interview because he’s not up on the whole “talking about his methods of composition” or “answering yes or no questions.” Jann Wenner spends approximately half of the interview chiding him for being so catty and asking each question multiple ways to elicit answers that never arise.
3. I thought it was kind of funny that they would run one of those high-school humor sexist ads for Axe body spray adjacent the opening page of Jane Fonda’s interview.
4. Chip Kidd explains that the meaning of his cover design was to enlarge the letter combination “Ro” in the Rolling Stone logotype until it resembled a “40.” But in fact it merely resembles a blown-up “Ro.”