#spymagazine

[otheoprahreligion]

Separated At Birth?: Sleep No More Banquet Scene and Mar-A-Lago Top Secret Public Instagram Missile Crisis #sleepnomore #butheremails #drumpf #separatedatbirth #spymagazine #orangina #presidentsnowflake #presidentputin (at The McKittrick Hotel)

[loydmcintosh]

Recently LongLeaf Style Magazine published its final issue and, for whatever reason, they asked yours truly to write a piece for its fond farewell. LongLeaf was a pretty darn good magazine published by The Anniston Star, a daily newspaper, in Anniston, Alabama, about an hour from Birmingham. For the assignment I wrote this piece, The Death of the Newsstand. The article essentially functioned as my eulogy for the good old American Newsstand, which I had the displeasure to watch die a slow, painful, gruesome death.

I won't spoil the piece with too much detail here, but I had the idea after my favorite newsstand in Birmingham, Alabama, was closed and converted into a yogurt shop (I think even that business has already closed), and after a short and sad visit to a joint calling itself a newsstand in Alys Beach, Florida, a couple of summer ago. 

Writing the story reminded me of browsing through the magazines at a newsstand in downtown Birmingham in high school in the late 1980s and coming across Spy Magazine for the first time. Click here to read my story and let me know your thoughts. 

[mrmedia]

Writer Tony Hendra cracks you up!

[rtsmagazines]