Controversy rises over Prince's phallic halftime projection

Maybe he oughta drag his ass into the office on Super Bowl Sunday--many SEs do, you know.

 

I've been told First Avenue does a monthly Prince night. All Prince music, all night. Don't know if 7th Street Entry does. Doubt it.

 

A better bet is every second Sunday at O'Gara's Garage in St. Paul, where ex-Gear Daddies frontman Martin Zellar does NEIL!, an evening of nothing but Neil Diamond covers.

It's more fun than anything you can do with your clothes on.

 

Man, I spent many a drunk night at O'Gara's when I was in college. So long ago that they didn't even have the Garage when I first started school.

 

O, I enjoyed both places, but the Garage cemented its place in my mind with the Neil nights.

You ever have a pitcher of Bass at the Halftime Rec?

That is my favorite bar in America.

 

Um yeah ... my 2-year-old knows he's watching "football with daddy," and laughed his ass off at the rock throwing. I could probably watch porno with him and not get a reaction (I bet he'd be bored) but now I have to worry about football games. Thing is, that's the shit kids WILL do. Even gunfire isn't as bad, at least right away. Maybe down the road, but as for what happens right now, the rock really is a big deal.

I know it's my bad for letting my toddler watch the stuff, but my wife already has a rule that the only thing we watch with him is sports and whatever comes on PBS Sprout or some other such kids channel, so I am waiting for her to put an end to sports, too.

And before anybody says anything, yes, she is the boss and I am happy to not have the job.

 

Which explains the furor over the mod to the PC version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. As long as your character was killing people, no big deal. Download the mod so you can have the character get laid, suddenly it's the worst video game ever and people need to "think about the children!!!"

 

I dunno, I remember a lot of furor about GTA going back to the original, butt-ugly top-view game for the PC and PS1. And usually there's a spurt of controversy for every version of it. Assumably there will be for GTA 4. And wasn't the big issue with the hot coffee mod the fact that it wasn't included in the game ratings? Granted, if you're buying a game with a M rating, you shouldn't really NOT expect anything and everything, but whatever.

 

My thoughts exactly.

 

Nothing against the little guy, but I was more of a Cabooze/Lamont Cranston type. Sweeney's was always good for a pint.

 

It was Prince being Prince. I was not surprised. Also, if you remember at the end of the movie Purple Rain, he does the same thing only with water spraying from the top of his guitar. Imagine if that was silhouetted. Then you would have controversy. Oh by the way, controversy was one of his biggest hits.

 

Visited the Rec a few times too. Years ago.