Here's "Purple and Gold," the new song written by Prince in honor of the Minnesota Vikings, who play the New Orleans Saints this weekend to see who represents the NFC in the Super Bowl. As a Saints fan, all I will say is that I hope the effort Prince put into this song is somehow a metaphor for the effort the Vikings put into the game on Sunday. [Via]

The sound quality is not great, but it's awesome to watch this footage of His Royal Badness strutting around a 1984 rehearsal session, sliding across the floor, doing splits, leading the Revolution through the stage routine steps. Of course, well…

Dear God:

I'm sorry for not believing in you.

Apparently a bunch of musicians have re-recorded "We Are The World" to benefit Haiti? I had a ton of thoughts about this last night, particularly about the original recording of "We Are The World," and how its lyrics seem so the product of a very different era in which we were supremely confident in our strength as a nation, probably because we didn't realize that we were completely eradicating our manufacturing base and putting ourselves on the remarkably destructive course which has brought us to where we are today. (A related thought: Doesn't the phrase "the war against the middle class" contain within itself the false suggestion that there [...]