Thursday, October 16, 2003
AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE (again): Finding out I get another "long weekend" because of an overly light workload leaves me with too much free time, and in spite of my best efforts, I can't sleep ALL day. What to do...what to do...AH, here we go!
ALL "LOVE", NO "SEXY"?: Have you ever wanted to meet a pop star, but never wanted to go out of you way to actually find one? Well, if you live in the Minneapolis area and see a Watchtower-toting guy at your door, it could be His Purpleness. Numerous reports are telling us today that Prince, who became a Jehovah's Witness in 2001, turned up at a couple's house along with ex-Sly and the Family Stone bassist Larry Graham and, when they were let in, leaned into 25 minutes worth of the pitch for salvation. At first they thought he was scouting locations for a video or something, but once the situation sank in, they informed the Purple One that they were Jewish and weren't interested in what he was selling. He left literature anyway.
Prince's music has always had an element of God wrestling the Devil anyway, but this is a new surprise. I thought Michael Jackson was a Witness, too; maybe they can do a multiplatinum tag team? Or are they still claiming MJ?
HUGE STORMS ALWAYS HAPPEN!: I thought that some of the Soviet-era propaganda was bizarre, but the stuff that's coming up from North Korea takes the cake. I speak of these two clips from robpongi.com, which snuck out from North K television and through to the Japanese media. While "F***in' USA" is all scorn and vitriol, the Kim Jong Il song got me laughing right away for reasons I'm not about to spoil.
The rest of the site is great stuff, and you should spend far too much time there, of course.
ALL "LOVE", NO "SEXY"?: Have you ever wanted to meet a pop star, but never wanted to go out of you way to actually find one? Well, if you live in the Minneapolis area and see a Watchtower-toting guy at your door, it could be His Purpleness. Numerous reports are telling us today that Prince, who became a Jehovah's Witness in 2001, turned up at a couple's house along with ex-Sly and the Family Stone bassist Larry Graham and, when they were let in, leaned into 25 minutes worth of the pitch for salvation. At first they thought he was scouting locations for a video or something, but once the situation sank in, they informed the Purple One that they were Jewish and weren't interested in what he was selling. He left literature anyway.
Prince's music has always had an element of God wrestling the Devil anyway, but this is a new surprise. I thought Michael Jackson was a Witness, too; maybe they can do a multiplatinum tag team? Or are they still claiming MJ?
HUGE STORMS ALWAYS HAPPEN!: I thought that some of the Soviet-era propaganda was bizarre, but the stuff that's coming up from North Korea takes the cake. I speak of these two clips from robpongi.com, which snuck out from North K television and through to the Japanese media. While "F***in' USA" is all scorn and vitriol, the Kim Jong Il song got me laughing right away for reasons I'm not about to spoil.
The rest of the site is great stuff, and you should spend far too much time there, of course.
|| Eric 10:41 PM#
