I once read an interview with Henry Rollins where the interviewer asked him what he thought about people thinking he was gay and his response was (paraphrasing) People can think what they want, people think Prince is gay but have you ever seen the women Prince is surrounded by?? I’d like to be that gay”

The title of the article is “Don’t Kid Yourselves, Everyone Would Have Sex With Prince.” :)

Even before Prince, black America tried to contend with Little Richard, which considered merely “flamboyant” like Liberace. People went out of their way to ignore that aspect.

Rick James described that phenomenon as “bitch power”.

Maybe somewhat. But let’s not take any responsibility off the girls who savagely jumped her. No parent should have to receive a call that their little girl was murdered in a high school fight. If you’ve seen some of these fight videos that you find online it’s so brutal how some people will keep on bashing someones…

Pretty impressed at how fast you spun this story into a school underfunding issue. So: Blame #1: underfunding. Blame #2: fragile anatomies. Nowhere: the pieces of shit who beat her.

Read the article. It’s pretty good. Foxx is talking about his unease being around Prince for fear that he might want to fuck him. It’s his attraction to another man that frightens Foxx.

“I’m not a woman, I’m not a man I am something that you’ll never understand”

Growing up as a black kid in a all black neighborhood in Chicago, the emergence of Prince was truly interesting period. Watching guys (like Foxx) contort themselves to say they like Prince but make it clear they didn’t “like” Prince.*

Not to take away from his feminism but I’ve always found it funny how straight men approached Prince. Hilton Als, for Harpers, did a write up about Prince that I think everyone should read (link will be below quotation).

To all the guys who go around swearing they’re feminists, take some notes. This is how to be an ally.

It is well known that Ted’s species only consumes food that is partially pre-digested by vomiting stomach acids from it’s third stomach. This is explains the “soup”. In this case, Ted cannot extrude his digestive track to soak the sandwich in gastric juices causes him great discomfort.

For some reason, this comes to mind:

And the look on all those rock star’s faces - they’re all giddy - like, we’re playing with Prince.

You can almost feel the joy emanating from him when he’s playing. God, what an incredible loss for us.

I think you’ve told this story here (or at some other media watering hole we have in common) and it remains one of my favorite Prince stories. I’ll bet he was NOT used to hearing that.

That guitar solo above - ending “While my Guitar Gently Weeps” is SO Classic Prince. He could rock a guitar like no other.

game recognized game. <3

I insulted him to his face at a concert. Really small venue event for charity. You were never more than three people away from the stage. The show started two hours late and after standing outside in stilettos waiting to get in the venue, I was not in the mood. I was standing dead center in front of the stage, being…

NYE 1999 belonged to him.