Just Call Him TAFKAP

As I was listening to some music at the house one evening last week, my roommate walked in and declared: “That sounds like Weird Androgynous Sign.”

It took me a few moments to realize he was referring to that purple person from Minneapolis.

I’ve noticed that your staff has continuously struggled with how to refer to this pop musician since he decided he was to be known as . So I suggest that instead of “the pop star formerly known as . . . “ or “we once knew him as . . . ,” perhaps the easiest way to handle his logo-identification would be to call him Weird Androgynous Sign.

STRANGE CRYPTIC MARKING

(with ABSTRACT PERPENDICULAR DOODLE)

Huntington Beach

Thank you, Messrs. Marking and Doodle (a.k.a. B. Dirk Yarborough and Jim Levisee). The editors, taking a cue from Chris Willman’s Times review last week of the VH-1 Honors show, are partial to the name TAFKAP (The Artist Formerly Known as Prince).