So I just checked out the NPGMC site for the first time in quite a while and noticed, to my extreme amusement, an NPGMC Pets department "coming soon" to the online store. It looks like they are actually going to sell a dog shirt that says "devour". Oh My GOD! Prince, seriously, I'm worried about you just a lil' bit. Stick to music, please don't become a merchandising whore.

Yes. Suddenly all the lyric-quotes at the headers of these pages just look to me like they must have always done to those to whom Prince was always, in the words of Boy George, 'a midget dipped in pubic hair'.

It's time the UN moved in on both Jackson and Nelson and removed them to an island for the seriously deranged.

"You! Prince! Move AWAY from the back catalogue!"

I want to express regret for my postings yesterday.
I had only rejoined the Prince community and was upset by the stuff I was hearing but I went way too far because nobody really knows whether Prince is responsible for the things that are making people unhappy, ticket prices aside.

There was a similar point of criticism I made after a visit to the NPG shop in London during its brief existence and I went on to make the criticism public in a magazine which Prince read. Although the item had been edited to make it more offensive than my actual words had been (via ommission of context etc), I know for a fact that Prince was personally hurt by this.
It was an error that I had, ultimately, to honour as a hidden intention, if that makes any sense to anyone at all.

I'm a provocative type of person sometimes while being an acutely sensitive one at others. I can give criticism and than can't take it. This is called 'humanity'

But it was hypocritical of me to criticise NPGMC for the lack of respect shown (because of their feeling that a lack of respect is shown) and then to top that with a massive lack of respect!

I do respect Prince..immensely. Like others, I hope that what he's doing now makes him happy. If it doesn't then I hope he finds a new muse, a new approach which will.

I called him a 'religious zealot'. Which is just as uncool as it comes. I'm sorry for that. I shouldn't have had those coffees earlier but that's no excuse.
I'm retracting, apologising because it's not how I wish to represent myself ultimately.

Whatever he wants to believe in that helps him with whatever he goes through is fine with me.
As in "Whatever gets u through the night, it's alright...it's alright."

So I especially regret what amounted to a personal attack on him at the end of the posting I made.
And on the subject of the NPGMC, I guess it's fair to balance all criticism with the fact that this forum makes the criticism available for anyone, including the NPGMC, who wishes to take account of it.

Once again, to anyone who felt personally affronted by my postings yesterday, I apologise.


Michael K

creamychemist said:

Those items could actually be for fams, since they behave like his pets...

XsX/Michael why are u feeling the need 2 publicly flagellate yourself 4 a previous post in a number of forums? Get OVA it dude! I actually thought u were pretty right on. Enough already!
*Sackcloth & Ashes Edit*
[This message was edited Mon Oct 6 13:13:05 PDT 2003 by bananacologne]