Kelly Escapes the Locked Closet

Hurrah! R. Kelly has been acquitted!

This is great for two reasons. One is that prosecuting someone for a high-level felony on the basis of a video tape provided by someone complicit in the supposed crime, when both of the other parties, notably including the supposed victim, deny that the supposed crime ever happened, just seems like a bad idea. Particularly when heavy-handed enforcement of statutory rape seems to be one of the most frequent to occur along lines of race.

But the most important reason, by far, is that we will now not have to wait 15-20 years for the next installment of what is probably the best example of post-modernism in hip-hop that will ever exist. I'm speaking, of course, about the stunning genius that is the hip-hopera "Trapped in the Closet".

One measure of its greatness: the Weird Al parody is so well-powered by the premise that it is itself a work of greatness. That you can take the derivative of a thing and still have it be this good implies a mighty area underneath the curve:



JEK
Likes to think he knows a good thing when he sees it