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...Sophomore year, Anna and I took a fifteen-minute walk back from the Quad after Social Studies 10 lecture with some meta-cronies. Disaster ensued as I was sucked into a Garden Street-long conversation centering on post-modernism. As soon as I escaped from the madness, I ran in to 14 Plymptom, ranting and raving. But before I could explain what happened, in came Anna, effusive and relentless in apology...
...idea of a "final" issue tempted us to break new habits and rediscover what we've cast off over the years. There was something inspiring about the crummy, faded pages of the "old school" FMs we unearthed. We were smitten with the concept of rediscovering the Fifteen Minutes that attracted rower-jock J.P. and pre-pubescent Aaron long, long ago. We're almost okay calling this issue a "humor magazine," formerly an offensive epithet. And so, as ex-Editor T.J. so pointedly predicted, we find ourselves "in the box" once again...
...future, there'll be little energy for celebratory champagne at the close of this volume of Fifteen Minutes Magazine. But I hope we'll get around to having that drink soon enough because when we do, I'll buy a round and make a toast. In the meantime, I hope it will suffice...
...future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes. I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is: 'Everybody will be famous in fifteen minutes.'" About a decade later, Warhol flippantly revised his own aphorism...
...This section of Groovy Train is officially dedicated to the Fifteen Minutes sweatpants that magazine staffers now own. Our asses look great, the material is totally cushy and the athletic lettering along the left leg--left for political reasons, of course--gives us that authentic look. Not unlike J. Crew the "distressed" aesthetic. Athletica as erotica...