Welcome to the Capri Lounge. You are probably wondering where you are and what you are doing here. Since I’m the one who asked for this blog to be created, I guess it’s up to me to explain it. I’m Will Dana, managing editor of Rolling Stone. I wanted to create a place on RollingStone.com where editors could post random thoughts (“does David Archuleta annoy you too?”) and, more importantly, where readers and editors could talk to each other. Back in the days when major office drug use tended to be of the non-prescription variety, the Capri Lounge was a small, dark room near the production department where editors and writers could go to “relax” and spend money on their favored recreational supplies. Most of us who work here today were in third or fourth grade when the Capri Lounge was at its height, so we really can’t say if the stuff you could buy there was more exciting than the Baked Cheetos they just started stocking in the office vending machine.

So, anyway, that’s why this blog is called the Capri Lounge. Think of it as a place where we’ll always be passing around an open bag of Cheetos. If you care to know what we’re thinking – I, for instance, think that Track 4 of the forthcoming REM album might be as good as any song they’ve ever written – this is the place to be. There will be at least one RS editor hanging out here every day. We hope lots of you will be here to keep us company.

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