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To the parents among you, I think this is a good strategy for maintaining your influence over your kids, better than the advice you’ll get from Sarah Palin or Michele Bachman. It may be better to go even further; bring them their first doobie. Dionysus will have his day, and he will have his time with your kids and take his accursed share, sooner or later. If you love them, make a friend of Mick Jagger; it’s the only way to protect them from Brian Jones. It’s just a shot away, or just a kiss away. That’s the gig, so you choose.

Standing in the Shadow

RANDALL AUXIER met a few gin-soaked bar-room queens in Memphis, where he grew up. They tried to take him upstairs for a ride, but he was too busy reading Plato, which blew his mind. He now plays bass for the honky-tonk women of southern Illinois and between gigs teaches philosophy at SIU Carbondale.

MICHAEL BARILLI is currently a student at Boston College working towards a bachelor’s degree in English and Finance. He has a passion for music that started from an early age, mostly influenced by his mother, Dianne, father, Ron and sister, Kristine. If he’s not trying to emulate Mick’s undeniable swagger, Mike can be found playing the glockenspiel or baking. He doesn’t ride wild horses. He’ll ride them someday and would like to thank Stephanie St. Martin, Dan Steele, and Brian Braman.

RICHARD BERGER was born in a crossfire hurricane, and has worked in journalism, broadcasting, and education. Since 2008, he has been Reader in Media and Education at The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP), Bournemouth University, UK. Richard’s work on adaptation and fan fiction writing has been published in The Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance and the edited collections, Redefining Adaptation Studies and Adaptation Studies : New Approaches. Richard currently writes for The Big Picture Magazine and edits the Media Education Research Journal. He has previously contributed to Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Mission Accomplished or Mission Frakked Up, which was a gas, gas, gas!

GARY CIOCCO teaches philosophy at McDaniel College, Harrisburg Area Community College, and other schools. He wrote a chapter in The Grateful Dead and Philosophy: Getting High Minded about Love and Haight (2007) and has had poetry published in various journals. He has already begun using Keith Richards’s Life as a subtext for all of his courses, and was so proud in the Nineties when his then five-year-old son was told he danced just like Mick Jagger. He remembers being nineteen and nervous, but has never tallied his breakdowns.

THERESA COTTER is a writer and editor at St Olaf College in Minnesota. She’s a huge Stones fan; the album that has made the biggest impact on her is Sticky Fingers. Maybe this is because seven years ago she spent a month traveling in Italy with Sticky Fingers as her only source of music. She believes she holds the record for listening to this album ninety times in thirty days.

Some facts of LUKE DICK’s New York life resemble “Some Girls.” He does in fact share a small apartment with six females. That much is the God’s honest truth. It’s also true that only one third of those females are human, and of the two humans, one is his sweet daughter, Emily. The other is his illustrious wife, literary and domestic editor, Meredith. He teaches philosophy and is a published songwriter. Google him sometime. Spend some time together.

After his life peaked in 1966 when his bar-band friends invited him on stage to belt out “Satisfaction,” DAN DINELLO wrote the book Technophobia! (2006); directed episodes of Strangers With Candy; ran the Website Shockproductions.com; and became a Professor and 2012 Distinguished Scholar at Columbia College Chicago, located on South Michigan Avenue, not too far from Chess Records.

JOSEPH J. FOY is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, Law, and Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Parkside. He’s the editor of Homer Simpson Goes to Washington: American Politics