Author: Zachary Hoskins
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D / M / S / R Subscriber Dispatch #6: April 1, 2025
I’m pleased to share that in just under two weeks, I will be crawling back out from under my rock to participate in the #PopLife40 virtual symposium celebrating 40 years of Prince and the Revolution’s Around the World in a Day, Sheila E’s Romance 1600, and the self-titled album by the Family
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D / M / S / R Subscriber Dispatch #5: December 3, 2024
Guess it’s high time I did another one of these, huh? I had intended to hold off on another newsletter update until I finished my post on “17 Days”–but, well, I’d also planned on having that post finished by the end of October. The good news is, I’d say I’m about halfway through writing the…
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D / M / S / R Subscriber Dispatch #4: September 27, 2024
Hi, everyone! I had hoped to have my next post (“17 Days”!) finished by today, but decided to prioritize other projects (not least my mental health) instead. This means we won’t be seeing it until October, because tomorrow my wife and I are flying out for a two-week sabbatical trip/second honeymoon to Ireland and England,…
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Possessed
Like many of Prince’s songs from this period, “Possessed” is the musical monologue of a man afflicted with chronic horniness. The unique selling proposition, in this case, is a dash of Christian demonology, as Prince’s narrator attributes the stirring in his loins to nothing short of infernal influence.
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D / M / S / R Subscriber Dispatch #3: September 9, 2024
This weekend, something finally happened (or perhaps more accurately, didn’t happen/isn’t happening) in the Prince world that I feel compelled to comment on.
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D / M / S / R Subscriber Dispatch #2: August 12, 2024
I did not expect to be sending out another newsletter so soon after the first one, but there’s a compelling reason for it: Recordings of this past weekend’s #Come30 virtual symposium are available to watch on Zoom Events until this Sunday, August 18 at 11:59 pm ET.