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In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place. If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that! You see, I'm in the Red Queen's Race...
Taming the Wild Beasts
By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Jan 30 2008, 11:15 AM
A remake of Michael Jackson's Thriller music video by prison inmates from the Philippines has become a popular viral video.The video was uploaded to YouTube by Byron Garcia, a security consultant for the local government, who is also credited with starting the program of choreographed exercise routines for the inmates. On December 19, 2007, Time Magazine placed the inmates' Cebu Thriller as 5th in the list of chosen 10 "most popular viral videos" of the years. Time's stated description of the prisoners was: "Orange-jumpsuited accused murderers, rapists and drug dealers paid homage to Michael Jackson's Thriller in a dance performance filmed at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines (CPDRC).
As of December 20, 2007 the inmates' video hit 9,570,353 views with comments - 22,146 and favorited - 47,249 times.
Comparatively speaking, as of December 27, 2007, Michael Jackson-Thriller YouTube video had only 4,311,237 views, Comments: 10,292, Favorited: 25,922 times, while the inmates' video had 9,966,810 views, with Comments: 22,732 and Favorited: 48,488 times.
Thus, on December 27, 2007, Vice Mayor Michael Rama, acting mayor of Cebu City, noted the inmates’ request to be in the Sinulog Festival as Sinulog Foundation executive director Ricky Ballesteros informed the former of the possibility of CPDRC’s participation.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Here is a shorter, practice video of the CPDRC's:
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Oh, yeah.....This is a great idea to me!!!
Murderers, rapists, drug dealers....pretending to be dancing with the stars!
How about some hard labor?!
Yeah...the Philippines really needs a court yard full of strutting, crotch grabbing, zombie hard criminals learning how to dance.
And Michael Jackson is the perfect roll model too!
If you HAVE to have dancing as an activity for "exercise," how about some ballet lessons?
Maybe that music will soothe the wild beast in these criminals.
They certainly don't need "Thriller."
Ridiculous!
If Michael Jackson is ever contemplating anything that may "lead him to a prison term," at least we know what country he should be living in next.
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