{"id":116524,"date":"2016-04-27T13:20:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=116524"},"modified":"2016-04-29T09:07:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T13:07:55","slug":"i-thank-god-4-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=116524","title":{"rendered":"“I Thank God 4 U.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Liz Bartucci has a Calligraphy business<\/a> (and she’s also an incredible writer and playwright). I just wanted to share her most recent piece of art.<\/p>\n

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\nMe neither. <\/p>\n

So two more things:<\/p>\n

Wesley Morris (frankly, I am just glad that he exists, for his Magic Mike XXL<\/i> review<\/a> alone: The man GETS sex) wrote an essay for The New York Times<\/i><\/a> and it nails the Prince “thing,” the essential something that Prince was all about, that Laura Hillenbrand (post below this one) also clocked. And you KNOW that I love Morris’ opening. THANK you for making that connection.<\/p>\n

At work, propped against a wall, near piles of stuff, stands an Elvis Presley cutout. It\u2019s made of cardboard, pretty beat up, taller than I am and not the greatest photo. (He looks drunk. So does his lam\u00e9 suit.) But I pass that cutout almost every day, and every day I have the same thought. Elvis was hot. He was a musician, but he didn\u2019t have to be playing music for you to feel this way. Cardboard would do.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s charisma. And the only star who had more than Elvis was Prince. His hotness differed, of course; it came from somewhere else. Cardboard won\u2019t cut it for him. If Elvis was sex, Prince was a sexual orientation. His own. And it was oriented toward you. And you. And you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Please read the whole thing. (I also love the URL. I mean, that’s it, right?)<\/p>\n

And finally, I posted this on Twitter – and outlets left and right have been picking it up (not from me, but from her) but just in case you all haven’t seen it. Suzanne Vega posted on her Facebook page a note she got from Prince following the release of her song “Luka”, which dominated the airwaves after it came out. There are a couple of things I love about the note:<\/p>\n

1. His show-stopping emotional dramatic handwriting.
\n1a. We are at the point in our culture now where we will never have examples of people’s handwriting again. But here we can see Prince revealed. This is how he wrote.<\/i>
\n2. The fact that he took the time to write the note at all. He was an egomaniacal rock star, because of course, the man was Prince, and you don’t get to be Prince by being humble. That fact aside, he was also known for his support of and generosity towards other artists.
\n3. The fact that even though he admits that doesn’t know how to put his feelings into words, he wrote the note ANYWAY.
\n4. The Dr. Seuss flower. <\/p>\n

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