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richardf8It was just last week that Morgan and I walked into a Caribou Coffee in St. Paul. The trivia question was "Where is Paisley Park?" I was able to correctly answer Chanhassen. He had just given a concert the night before and one of the Baristas had been there.
So today's news of his death took me by surprise.
I don't have much to say about him really. His music was part of the environment I grew up in, but I never quite fancied it.
The juxtaposition of that trivia question and the news of his death is sort of a memento mori, I guess. It strikes close to home when you share a metro area with someone that high profile.
So today's news of his death took me by surprise.
I don't have much to say about him really. His music was part of the environment I grew up in, but I never quite fancied it.
The juxtaposition of that trivia question and the news of his death is sort of a memento mori, I guess. It strikes close to home when you share a metro area with someone that high profile.
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Date: 2016-06-14 05:28 pm (UTC)I generally think it is good for Israel to be diversifying, and I think Russia is taking the threat of Islamism seriously.
The US is not. And I don't see that changing. Even Trump seems likely to respond with political theatre that will inconvenience the uninvolved while leaving the machinery intact