Everybody dance now….

In this post at Above the Law, David Lat rightly notes that I have been remiss in failing to blog about this extraordinary YouTube video of 1,500 Filipino prisoners dancing to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”  The video is amazing, and ATL links to all sorts of other coverage of the prison’s dancing machine.  I like Charles Nesson’s (punctuation challenged) questions about the video in this post: “what is the story behind this video. who are the people that made it. has the making of it had positive effect on individuals and institution. is it possible that a different way of thinking could change prisons.”

In a perfect world, I’d have Milbarge’s and Fitz-Hume’s talents for turning this video clip into a sentencing song parody (prior examples here and here and here and here).  Instead, I’ll just be content to suggest that some warden might find requiring prisoners to watch me dance could be its own novel form of punishment (at least until Elaine Benes gets back on the dance floor).