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CaliforniaPeggy

(149,560 posts) Thu Apr 21, 2016, 08:28 PM Apr 2016

Today's Google Doodle:

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Today's Google Doodle: (Original Post) CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2016 OP

. In_The_Wind Apr 2016 #1

Perfect malaise Apr 2016 #2

YW! CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2016 #3

Perfect. bigwillq Apr 2016 #4

The graphic BumRushDaShow Apr 2016 #5

Thanks, I didn't know how to do that! n/t CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2016 #6

The current backdrop for the Weather Channel's local forcast page... HeartoftheMidwest Apr 2016 #7

Set down the cynicism for just one day.... Hekate Apr 2016 #8

Sorry, it's not cynicism, really.... HeartoftheMidwest Apr 2016 #12

I have a major regret Mira Apr 2016 #9

My dear Mira... CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2016 #10

I just sent him a message Mira Apr 2016 #11

All I get is the various Earth Day ones geardaddy Apr 2016 #13

They change very frequently........sorry! CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2016 #14

Thanks CP! geardaddy Apr 2016 #15

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

1. .

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 08:29 PM

Apr 2016

malaise

(268,844 posts)

2. Perfect

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 08:39 PM

Apr 2016

Thanks

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,560 posts)

3. YW!

Reply to malaise (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 08:40 PM

Apr 2016

bigwillq

(72,790 posts)

4. Perfect.

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 08:43 PM

Apr 2016

BumRushDaShow

(128,701 posts)

5. The graphic

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 08:48 PM

Apr 2016

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,560 posts)

6. Thanks, I didn't know how to do that! n/t

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #5)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 10:03 PM

Apr 2016

HeartoftheMidwest

(309 posts)

7. The current backdrop for the Weather Channel's local forcast page...

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #5)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 10:05 PM

Apr 2016

...is also Purple Rain. Corner title says, "In memory of Prince."
I've never seen so many people and institutions so touched...or for some, is it just shrewd commercialism?

Hekate

(90,616 posts)

8. Set down the cynicism for just one day....

Reply to HeartoftheMidwest (Reply #7)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 10:16 PM

Apr 2016

He was after my time, so to speak, but there are a lot of folks who feel bereft.

HeartoftheMidwest

(309 posts)

12. Sorry, it's not cynicism, really....

Reply to Hekate (Reply #8)

Fri Apr 22, 2016, 12:51 PM

Apr 2016

....more bewilderment. I get the individual outpourings of disbelief and grief and reflection, just don't understand how an institution like The Weather Channel "grieves" or needs to memorialize Prince. If he hadn't had a popular song with "rain" in the title, would they have done something to remember him? Do they do that for other artists?

That said, it is wonderful to hear the previously hidden stories about Prince's humanitarian and philanthropic activities. Makes him EVEN cooler, IMHO.

Mira

(22,380 posts)

9. I have a major regret

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 10:57 PM

Apr 2016

once took my then 15 year old son to a Prince concert in Charlotte. I was a tight assed stuck up person who likes opera, felt I had to be his body guard and did not want to be there. I sat and read a book for most of the concert.
I am so damn sorry I did that.

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,560 posts)

10. My dear Mira...

Reply to Mira (Reply #9)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 11:01 PM

Apr 2016

You do what you can at the time.

There was no way you could help being who you were!

And I'm sure your son had a great time.

Mira

(22,380 posts)

11. I just sent him a message

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #10)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 11:08 PM

Apr 2016

and told him I was sorry to not have made it a good time for all. Truth be told, I was a self employed single Mom, struggling, and did not have what it took for two tickets to a special concert one and a half hours away, financially or time wise.
I would act very differently today.