Is that your Super Bowl halftime show, or are you just happy to see me?

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The media, particularly bloggers, were almost uniformly underwhelmed by this year’s Super Bowl ads. The only real debate, is turns out, is “whether a guitar was just a guitar during Prince’s Super Bowl halftime show.” We refer to the phallic silhouette Prince made with his guitar, which New York Daily News critic David Bianculli thought was “embarrassingly rude, crude and unfortunately placed.“ Calls to Prince’s publicist weren’t returned, because he or she had the good sense to ignore the whole thing.

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