Hear, hear.

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• Google Searches for “Steve Perry dead” just show lots and lots of pages about how he’s not dead, or pages about how he’s alive, or people explaining what he’s been doing since “Foolish Heart”. (I consider this a strategic error on our part, as we actually didn’t claim that Steve Perry was dead, but Richard Pryor, who is not only dead, but is easily confused with Steve Perry)

• Google Searches for “Steve Perry Richard Pryor” come straight to this post.

• At the top of the comments, GARO says that Steve Perry should still be singing with Journey because she saw him in 1992, 14 years earlier, and he could still sing.

• Now that’s 18 years ago. Which reminds me of what Jeff just said: on August 9, 2009, it will be the fourth year since this post’s birth and its semiannual revivification by fans of Steve Perry, who are making believe we said something disparaging about him, despite the unrelenting awesomeness of the Rea,l Actual Photo at the top of the thread.

In any event, I’m pretty sure of the following:

• We’re not actually making fun of Steve Perry. We’ve done no actual research and so, can’t make fun of anything he’s actually done, said, or been, since we’re almost wholly ignorant of the man, despite his having saturated the airwaves when we were kids.

• Another little-known fact: “Heartlight”, written about E.T., still makes Steve Perry blush behind his grilled ham and cheese sandwich. Rumor has it that Steve Perry secretly can heal with a touch and has a very flabby chest. Conclusions are left as an exercise to the reader.

• This ongoing conversation has pushed the Real, Actual Photo of Steve Perry to the first page of Google image hits for “Steve Perry”, two positions ahead of The DilDozer.