Yesterday, we spent the afternoon with Liz and Emily at their Picnic With A Purpose - a fun time with hotdogs and paint and cupcakes and bloggers. It was great to put a face to some blogs.
On the way to the picnic, the kid piped up with:
Her: This music makes me feel like an Indian.
Me: What kind of Indian?
Her: Pocahontas
The thing is, we were listening to Prince. Controversy, to be exact (which, tangentially, always sounds to me like he's singing "count your blessing" which almost makes sense in the context of the song). When pressed, she said that Pocahontas wanted to be free too. She then went off on a unified theory of the universe, telling me that Hannah Montana's brother was named Prince, after the Prince that we were listening to, and that, somehow, this Prince is related to Hannah Montana, and in fact "he sounds like Hannah Montana". If Prince were dead, he'd be rolling in his grave now.
glad to hear you're unlocked. otherwise i might have had to suffer through magpie musing withdrawal. and it wouldn't have been a pretty sight.
ReplyDeleteWait, what happened? What did I miss?
ReplyDeleteYou controversial person, you.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're back!
Not being able to get to your blog sounds pretty scary. I compose in Live Writer, so I think I could always get to that.
ReplyDeleteThe picnic sounds fab.
I can just imagine dear little Miley singing Purple Rain. ;-)
ReplyDeleteto me, Prince is dead.
ReplyDeleteWas so great to meet you live and in person. Especially now that I know you're cool enough to listen to Prince with your gorgeous daughter.
ReplyDeleteI love Prince! Little Red Corvette always puts me in a good mood.
ReplyDeleteutter. heresy.
ReplyDeleteLike I keep saying: Going Places. That one.
ReplyDeleteHmmm. I wonder. Will Hannah Montana wear those no-ass pants just like Prince did in his pre-Jehovah days?
ReplyDeletei have been listening to prince the last few days, too! there are very few prince songs you can listen to in the presence of a young child. certainly not MY favorite: Gett Off.
ReplyDeleteThat is hilarious. I can just hear Prince singing, "yeooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww!" with a few rocking guitar licks to go with it.
ReplyDeleteNow imagine Prince singing Achy Brakey Heart....Mmmmmm
ReplyDeleteGlad you are unlocked!
ReplyDeleteI think you're right about Prince. He would be horrified.
It was so great to meet and get to hang out a bit on Saturday!!!! I'm so glad you came even with the threat of rain in the air! And yes, Prince would be rolling over!
ReplyDeletehow did it happen and how did you unlock it? or was it just one of those warning messages where you have to say, "yes, i'm sure i want to visit," which would be ridiculous as well.
ReplyDeletei wonder how the google algorithms figure these things out...
Now I'm depressed. Prince and Hannah related. Well, we're all related, I suppose, in the spirit of Disney...(She cracks me up.)
ReplyDeleteHoly mother of God!
ReplyDeleteNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
(to the Spam blog thing and the whole Prince related to that thing)
Yeah, I can see Prince shuddering somewhere like someone walked over his grave...as he eats 3 grapes a day, in his palatial Minneapolis estate. Hannah Montana's brother.
ReplyDeleteBut it's very sweet that she makes these connections...I love this little narrative she's spinning.