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Episode #12: Trapped in the Closet

October 24, 2012

On this episode we consider the life and art of R&B superstar R. Kelly. Helping with this Big Mac sized task are Chicago artists and scholars Jake Austen, Christy LeMaster and Edward Crouse who all particpated in R Kelly 101 along side our own Jenny Benevento. The event was sponsored by Homeroom Chicago. You'll learn about his days in high school choir, how McDonald's is his happy place, what he eats on set, and what R Kelly has in common with Wagner. 

SHOW NOTES:

  • Slides from Jenny's talk
  • Homeroom Chicago
  • Trapped in the Closet
  • Sex in the Kitchen
  • I Like the Crotch on You
  • Sex Planet
  • The Hungry Brain
  • Soulacoaster
  • Unauthorized Biography
  • I Can Fly--Children's biography
  • David Ritz--also cowriter of Sexual Healing

Jenny and Paul Sell Out #12

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Jenny & Paul Sell Out is an eavesdrop into conversations about the culture around us--popular, unpopular, reviled, hip and seriously unhip. We hold one truth to be self-evident: that culture matters, whether or not you like it. We think that research and understanding cultural artifacts that are strange or confounding is better than just looking down your nose at it. Everyone likes something that someone else thinks is lame.

Embrace your lameness, be proud in what you like, and you'll be happier defining your path in life.

Jenny Benevento is a taxonomist/information architect, and technically a librarian. She loves people who believe in weird things.

Paul Riismandel was podcasting back when they just called it putting audio files on a website, producing the weekly syndicated mediageek radioshow from 2003 to 2009. He's a writer and podcasting evangelist by day.

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