Wait, the guitar did what?

[cleolinda]

Continuing with Prince Week (yes, it's a whole week now): Remember the silhouette that I vainly argued “wasn’t that obscene in motion”? Prince's halftime imagery questioned.

Spokesman Greg Aiello said the league has received no complaints. "We respect other opinions, but it takes quite a leap of the imagination to make a controversy of his performance," Aiello said. "It's a guitar."

The majority of the reaction to Prince's performance has been laudatory, including positive reviews from The Associated Press, the New York Times and USA Today — all of which noted the lack of controversy in this year's halftime show. AP Entertainment Writer Douglas J. Rowe wrote: "He delivered one of the best Super Bowl halftime shows — ever."

For decades, the electric guitar, by nature, has been considered phallic. From Jimi Hendrix's sensual 6-string swagger to Eddie Van Halen's masturbatory soloing, the guitar has often been thought an extension of a male player's sexuality. Was Prince's pose phallic?

"The short answer is, of course it is," says Rolling Stone magazine contributing editor Gavin Edwards, who points out that on Prince's "Purple Rain" tour in the mid '80s, he performed with a guitar that would ejaculate, squirting water out of its end during the climax of "Let's Go Crazy".... "If people want to be hypersensitive, they can be hypersensitive," says Rolling Stone's Edwards. "Those trombones are phallic, too. What are you going to do?"

How did we get this way, people? We went from a nation where it was reasonably acceptable for Madonna to hump the floor in the early '80s, and now a respected performer can't even play the guitar onstage. I'd blame Janet Jackson's breast, but I still don't understand why this country freaked out so badly about that, either.


Astronaut charged with attempted murder. The moment I realized the woman had lost her fool mind: “Nowak raced from Houston to Orlando wearing diapers in the car so she wouldn't have to stop to go to the bathroom, authorities said.”

Haggard now "completely heterosexual." "One of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced minister emerged convinced that he is ‘completely heterosexual.’"

Some newer birth control pills need ban: group. "Some newer birth control pills, which carry twice the risk of dangerous blood clots as older contraceptives, should be banned, an advocacy group said in a petition filed with U.S. regulators on Tuesday."

Border police nab migrant in car dashboard.

Princeton libraries join Google book-scan project.

Arrest warrant issued for Daniel Baldwin.

985,000 Easy-Bake Ovens are recalled.

Eternal embrace? Couple still hugging 5,000 years on.

Love is ... a pair of really good jeans.

Trailers at The Costumer’s Guide: Becoming Jane, Amazing Grace, Silk, Angel, Goya's Ghosts, promo for Showtime’s The Tudors.

Noooo! Dun make Oscarwatch change its name!

Okay, let’s try the map the way it was supposed to work:


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Comments

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Wheeee! Map-love! (I discovered you have to clear your cache to see the new points appear on the map.)

The Prince thing is ridiculous. I wonder where this attack of prudishness is coming from? Xenophobia I can understand from 9/11, but highly hypocritical prudishness just seems to fade in and out of fashion. (I gather it's something like: 18th century: sexy, 19th: prudish, 20th: sexy, 21st: prudish...)

[plum-passions.livejournal.com]

The eternal hug couple reminds me of the end of the real Hunchback of Notre Dame. Except not as sad =[

[purpleivey.livejournal.com]

I stared at your icon for about 5 seconds before I actually got it. Then I laughed my head off! *applauds*

I can't wait-

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

until somebody requires that broadcasts featuring the Washington Monument or Space Needle be blurred because they're phallic or make somebody feel offended. ~ugh~ This is why we can't have nice things.

On a side note- how do put yourself on the map? Second question- who else is from Reno?

Re: I can't wait-

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

You're already on there. It uses your IP address, so I think all you have to do is see the map, and it will add you. (If the map points are not showing up, try emptying your cache and reloading.)

[kelcea.livejournal.com]

Hm, it's not adding me. I cleared my cache, etc. Interesting.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Maple Ridge is on there, I think. Maybe it only adds a given location once?

[megathy27.livejournal.com]

My main... well, not a problem so much a source of great amusement, with regards to the whole Prince thing is that it is incredibly similar to a scene in Robin Hood: Men in Tights involving a backlit sheet and well-placed sword.

[girlontheroof.livejournal.com]

oh prince. you don't need a guitar for that, surely.
....
surely?

[girlontheroof.livejournal.com]

oh and haggard is still definitely gay. i don't know who the hell they think they're fooling.
once you go gay, you never turn away.
i speak from experience. years and years of experience.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Once you go guy, girls you don't try.

I'm going to the special hell.

[girlontheroof.livejournal.com]

don't worry; the special hell is fabulously decorated and the parties are to die for.

[confusedmuchly.livejournal.com]

You and Captain Tightpants will have a ball, trust me.

[luindilwen.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but a Prince concert without some kind of phallic imagery is just not worth it.

[adoresixtyfour.livejournal.com]

See, I'm with you there. I noticed the phallic silhouette in question. And didn't care. Because it was Prince. And he is funky.

[aymaera.livejournal.com]

Hee!

[erinya.livejournal.com]

"One of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced minister emerged convinced that he is ‘completely heterosexual.’"

...Yay brainwashing?

I almost feel sorry for him.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

A confessed gay men gets to spend three weeks with four hot guys...

Hmmm...

[alpheratz.livejournal.com]

I liked the Daily Show's take on it (paraphrasing): "You know how when you were a kid and your father caught you smoking, he made you smoke the whole pack?"

I do feel a bit sorry for Haggard. Ex-gay programs = misery for all involved.

[dishuiguanyin.livejournal.com]

I too succumed to the whole 'clicky button' thing of the map. I live in an unusual enough place that I could easily see myself appear. (It's put me down in Shanghai, which is certainly close enough on a map that size.) Now my question is, who's come from Beijing and Hong Kong?

Prince

[auzrais.livejournal.com]

Stupid Prince article. When I saw that, I immediately though "OMG, they are grasping at straws here." As anyone familiar with Prince knows, THAT's how he plays his guitars for crying out loud. Also... I don't really think it matters WHAT guitar you play... you're going to get the same image. And really, silhouette or no, it can be seen as phallic either way... I think the 'censorship board people' need to get over themselves and stop looking for issues that don't exist.

*pushes away soapbox*

[auzrais.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I forgot to say... LOVE your icon, btw. :D

[meandstuff.livejournal.com]

Did anyone else hear other movies' scores in the Becoming Jane trailer? I swear I heard music from Little Women, Sense and Sensibility, Emma...

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

You get a lot of that in trailers, actually. Music from the original Stargate movie in any number of genre trailers in years following, for instance, was the norm.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Hug schmug- they probably died strangling each other *g*

Harry Potter = horsemasexual!

[7tree-hugger.livejournal.com]

I know it's no longer relevant, but I only just got caught up on my net-reading after vacation.

[yarha.livejournal.com]

Hm. The South American market is still Cleo-less. Perhaps you could drop a few Spanish phrases ala George B?

In re: Prince. There is no controversy, only people laughing at the lingering effects from Janet's wardrobe malfunction.

To wit:
the network has received "very few" complaints...said the league has received no complaints.

Also:
The majority of the reaction to Prince's performance has been laudatory, including positive reviews from The Associated Press, the New York Times and USA Today — all of which noted the lack of controversy in this year's halftime show. AP Entertainment Writer Douglas J. Rowe wrote: "He delivered one of the best Super Bowl halftime shows — ever."

The only reactions about it seem to be from stand-up comedians and *gasp* bloggers, who, as we all know, don't count. ;)

Yarha, Bargin' Bloggers

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Refresh the map. I have three or four stars in South America now. : )

And two in Hawaii

[7tree-hugger.livejournal.com]

I vote for a Cleo meet, where we all sleep on their floor for cheap holiday goodness.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Wheeee! Looks like you've got most of Europe under control, and there's finally a star in Africa. You are #4 on their Top Maps list (http://www.maploco.com/top.php). I knew this was going to be cool. (There is Cleo in Saudi Arabia? And I want to say that star in the water below Japan is the Marianna Islands?)

[yarha.livejournal.com]

Woot! Score!

Yarha,
"I learned to hold my likker
Way down in Costa Rikker!"

[cpip.livejournal.com]

The astronaut thing I keep looking back at, and looking back at, and blinking. For it is really, really, really freaking bizarre.

[bigeyedrabbit.livejournal.com]

Awww, geez. I actually feel sorry for Rev. Ted Haggard. I shudder to think what his "intensive counselling" consisted of.

[heyorion.livejournal.com]

I love how you are popular all over Europe except in Sapin, Portugual, Corsica and a region that I believe corresponds to the area I go on holiday, around Monaco.

Hey...

[xander77.livejournal.com]

I've got a unique map entery all of my own. I'm speshul. :)

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

Astronauts essentially wear diapers during a shuttle launch, so I'm sure that's where she got the idea. I think it is less because she's crazy, than just an astronaut. The attempted murder stuff is the crazy..

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh, good point. Although I did think it was a bit crazy that she *needed* the diapers because she was gonna gun it down there without any stops. Because, you know, if you stop for a single bathroom break, you're totally going to miss killing that girl.

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

My guess is she wanted to minimize any witnesses to place her on the road during that drive, and maybe if she stopped at rest stops, there might be people to identify her? And if she knew the other woman was flying back, and had to meet her at a specific time, maybe she wanted to save time? It really does make everything that much more pre-meditated, doesn't it? Wacky stuff...

[derangeddarling.livejournal.com]

the US portion of that map is so crowded that I can't even see my state! ^.^ I'm from Michigan and going to school in Chicago. I wonder which one it put.

Sometimes a guitar is just a guitar...

[purpleivey.livejournal.com]

I think they were dissappointed they didn't get flashed by anyone this year and made a big deal about the guitar in retaliation ; ) Good lord, these people need to get a life and/or get laid and stop bothering the rest of us.

Plus I love Rolling Stone's comment: "Those trombones are phallic, too. What are you going to do?" It's true! Lots of things are phallic when you get down to it. I had a psych professor once who was making fun of another psych prof. who liked to find sexual symbols everywhere. he said "Look at this chair! Those legs are obviously phallic symbols! But the back of the chair and the seat of the chair are rounded and feminine - we have a bisexual chair, here."

It's a good thing these people weren't at the Nine Inch Nails show I went to about a year and a half ago - Trent was humping the microphone : D

[greenleafgurl17.livejournal.com]

ZOMG LOST COMES BACK TONIGHT. *excited*

Muffin, anyone?

[nottoneedyou.livejournal.com]

Wow! I was surprised to see two people within 15 miles of me on your map. It is a small world.