The midget's the baby's daddy.

You know that saying "Words fail me"? When something is just so stupid/brazen/incredible that nothing additional really needs to be said? Here's an example: when I was in school, my friend Tom took a class not unlike your American "Shop" class, and his work was so bad that the teacher's only grade was the comment "Words fail me." When Tom eventually passed the class with a respectable B, he photocopied the teacher's comments and put them up around the school.

There's a couple of those "words fail me" instances in the R. Kelly trial, which is currently underway in Chicago.

Firstly, from the jury selection:

When the judge asked one prospective juror about his feelings regarding Kelly, he cryptically answered: "R. Kelly may have led the Taliban in attacking us on 9-11, but you can't prove it."

Next, and this one takes the prize for word-failage, "Midget" referred to in court, as Kelly trial takes a turn towards "Trapped in the Closet" plot. That is the title of the article.

I'm going to sleep. The world is broken.

Saturday stuffs

Here are things on the Internet that I think are good.

• The last three episodes of Music Weekly have featured Ray Davies, King Creosote and Steve Mason - that's a pretty solid track record. The latest one, with Steve using the phrase "like Beelzebub in hotpants" is available here.
  
• Speaking of Steve Mason, you can download the single from his new project Black Affair for free from their website. It's electro-pop goodness.
• Neko Case is offering a new song on her site - it's a demo from the 'Fox Confessor Brings the Flood' days, but it sounds very robust and more developed than yer average demo. It's ace, of course.
• [download Neko Case - Behind the House (demo)]
• "I can't believe I'm skipping Gossip Girl for this shit." SAH liveblogs the Country Music Awards.
  
• Carrie from Sleater Kinney has a blog and it's great and you should read it. Lest you've forgotten:
  
• [download Sleater-Kinney - Entertain]
• Finally, I know I've not been posting much lately, but I've some good news: I've discovered what I'm going to do after I get my law degree: