the many perks of the blogging world

Bookhart wrote about “R.Kelly: Trapped in the Closet” in a way that had me hoppin’ over to Netflix. Despite the “available within the next 12 weeks” notice, it arrived pretty quickly. Tonight the boys are gone, and baby girl has four other seventh graders spending the night, so after feeding the masses, I settled in with the movie–

Okay, all I can say is when Big Man was found hiding under the sink, I started howling. I was already snickering while R.Kelly did his pie-bakin’ White Woman voice, then the Big Man came out. I haven’t laughed so hard since the episode of The Office (season 1, the BBC version) where the trainer is there holding a seminar, and David brings out his guitar, and Gareth starts singing the descant.

So, my personal recommendation in the Twisted Humor Category is “The Dancing Outlaw”, a documentary about Jessco (aka ‘Jess’; aka ‘Elvis’). Even though it’s about a jigging hillbilly in the hills of West Virginia, it shares a common spirit with R.Kelly and the BBC. Go figure.