Uh-Oh

The higher-order barnstorming Sentz family sent me this for my birthday:



Now, this may not seem like much to you, right? It's Rolling Stone Magazine, right? Just a bunch of music reviews and hippie political stuff, right? Maybe some cool pictures of famous people, right?

I don't think you get it, folks.

This is America as it was happening during my lifetime. Granted, from a certain perspective, and certainly focused on pop culture...and obviously on music. Every edition. Every cover. And the software it comes with flips through the magazine just like you're reading the original as it was laid out. Including the ads and classifieds. Every edition from #1 to May of last year (and each year, for $12, you can get the new ones in December).

But it was my lifetime.
My music.
My pop culture.
And embracing a perspective that I've gravitated towards since I escaped Alabama.
And those photos are some of the coolest photos ever.

Thumbnails of each edition. Tables of contents. Find an original article on the Ramones? Click on it and it will also bring up--in 2 seconds--every article on that band (or any other) with photos, etc. It will add things to a "reading list," which is nothing more than the literary equivalent of an iPod playlist, so you can organize what you'd like to read.

Oh, man.

I now have something to do...

...well...

...for about 40 years.