Lotto Fever... Catch It! (and more...)

I feel like the Charlie Bucket of lottery players today. My friends keep calling and saying things like, "How many Powerball tickets did you buy? I bought $30 worth." Call me old school, but I'm just going to buy 3. Charlie Bucket won his golden ticket with his third Wonka Bar at much higher odds so I won't tempt fate and pull a Veruca. Hopefully, the lines at the convenience store down the street won't be too long when I get off of work. For the record, this is the 2nd time I've played the lottery, not counting my mom's Christmas stocking gift of five scratch off tickets per year.

Mark Jenkins is an amazing street installment artist. I've been scanning his website all morning. For those of you in DC, he's the guy behind those statues of tape men and babies around town. I saw his Tresmaria installment on 16th St. a few months ago and have been waiting to hear an explanation for months. He has a really great website with pictures, articles and even a tutorial on how to make your own tape sculptures. (I'm going to try it out this weekend with my red buddha statue.) Make sure you see his article from the Washington Post about the tape men attacking the Post's art critic. Here's my favorite of his Storker pictures:



The funniest Saturday Night Live skit of all time is the "Gerald Ford Dead Today" pre-taped memorial skit. Here's the transcript:
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/96/96dbrokaw.phtml
"You will be if you break the Gerald Ford story!"