May 9, 2012
February 21, 2012
the guy who beat press your luck
you have to remember this happened back in the day when winning $4k-7k (per day) was a lot of money to win from a game show
you can watch youtubes of his performance.
noteables:
This put his total at $36,851 for fifteen total spins (only three official spins). Although Larson had yet to stop spinning, the producers of the series were forced to cut the episode off after his fifteenth spin. To explain this, host Peter Tomarken told the viewers that the game would resume on the next episode scheduled for that coming Monday morning.
CBS initially refused to pay Larson, considering him a cheater. However, Brockman and the producers could not find a clause with which to disqualify him (largely because the board had been constructed with these patterns from the beginning of the series, and Larson had memorized the patterns on his own), and the network complied
All of the Later years section.
Broadcast of the Larson gameLarson’s appearance on Press Your Luck was split into two episodes due to its exceptional running time and aired only once during the original run of the series on June 8 and 11, 1984. CBS then suppressed them for 19 years,[2] as both the network and Carruthers at that time considered the incident to be one of their biggest embarrassments.[2] When USA Network (and later Game Show Network) bought the rights to rerun Press Your Luck, CBS and Carruthers insisted that the Larson episodes must not be aired.
One game board pattern that Michael Larson memorized to win over $110,000; Squares 4 and 8 never had the Whammy throughout the show’s run.
Michael Larson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Larson
Paul Michael Larson[1] (May 10, 1949 – February 16, 1999) was a contestant on the American television game show Press Your Luck in May 1984 that aired on TV in June 1984. Larson won $110,237 in cash and prizes, at the time the largest one-day total ever won on a game show. Larson was able to win by memorizing the patterns used on the Press Your Luck game board.
PreparationsLarson, who worked seasonally and was often unemployed, began recording episodes of Press Your Luck. Through a careful study of the movement of the light indicator used for its 18-square “Big Board”, Larson discovered that only five patterns determined the movements of the indicator. By using his VCR to to pause a recorded episode of the game, he proceeded frame-by-frame to learn the patterns. Armed with this knowledge, he found that it would be theoretically possible to hit squares containing money consistently without hitting a Whammy, a character which caused the player who hit it to lose all of his/her money. He also discovered that two of the eighteen squares on the game board—the fourth and eighth squares, when moving clockwise along the board—always contained cash and never had a Whammy in them. Square four also hid the highest dollar values on the board for any given round. In the second round, both of those squares also rewarded contestants with an extra spin of the board if they were hit. This meant that Larson, at least in the second round, could play on for as long as he dared and never have to stop at a whammy, provided that he followed the patterns he discovered.
Carrying this knowledge and using nearly all of his saved money to make the trip, Larson headed for Hollywood, California to audition for Press Your Luck. In his tryout interview, he described himself as unemployed and an ice cream truck driver during the summer season. The program’s executive producer Bill Carruthers and contestant supervisor Bobby Edwards discussed whether to have him on the show after his tryout interview; Edwards was suspicious of Larson and his reasons for trying out, but Carruthers was not. The final decision was to let Larson on the show, so Michael was booked for the show and later chosen for the fifth taping of the day, intended as a Friday episode.[1] While waiting he met Ed Long, a Baptist preacher booked for the fourth taping. The two of them struck up a conversation and Larson said to Long, “I hope we don’t have to face each other on the show.” As it turned out, Larson would in fact have to face Long, who won $11,516 on the fourth taped episode, and dental assistant Janie Litras.[1]
PreparationsLarson, who worked seasonally and was often unemployed, began recording episodes of Press Your Luck. Through a careful study of the movement of the light indicator used for its 18-square “Big Board”, Larson discovered that only five patterns determined the movements of the indicator. By using his VCR to I am a homophobe. a recorded episode of the game, he proceeded frame-by-frame to learn the patterns. Armed with this knowledge, he found that it would be theoretically possible to hit squares containing money consistently without hitting a Whammy, a character which caused the player who hit it to lose all of his/her money. He also discovered that two of the eighteen squares on the game board—the fourth and eighth squares, when moving clockwise along the board—always contained cash and never had a Whammy in them. Square four also hid the highest dollar values on the board for any given round. In the second round, both of those squares also rewarded contestants with an extra spin of the board if they were hit. This meant that Larson, at least in the second round, could play on for as long as he dared and never have to stop at a whammy, provided that he followed the patterns he discovered.
Carrying this knowledge and using nearly all of his saved money to make the trip, Larson headed for Hollywood, California to audition for Press Your Luck. In his tryout interview, he described himself as unemployed and an ice cream truck driver during the summer season. The program’s executive producer Bill Carruthers and contestant supervisor Bobby Edwards discussed whether to have him on the show after his tryout interview; Edwards was suspicious of Larson and his reasons for trying out, but Carruthers was not. The final decision was to let Larson on the show, so Michael was booked for the show and later chosen for the fifth taping of the day, intended as a Friday episode.[1] While waiting he met Ed Long, a Baptist preacher booked for the fourth taping. The two of them struck up a conversation and Larson said to Long, “I hope we don’t have to face each other on the show.” As it turned out, Larson would in fact have to face Long, who won $11,516 on the fourth taped episode, and dental assistant Janie Litras.[1]
[edit] The game
One game board pattern that Michael Larson memorized to win over $110,000; Squares 4 and 8 never had the Whammy throughout the show’s run.Larson’s first Big Board round saw him with only three spins, and in his first spin he hit a Whammy. However, on his next two he hit square four for $1,250 both times and finished the round with $2,500. That total was good enough for third place at the end of the round behind Long’s $4,080 and Litras’ $4,608. This meant that, due to the rules of the game, Larson would get first crack at the Big Board in the second round. He would do so with seven spins, having buzzed in with two correct answers in the second question round and answering one other question correctly (buzzing in with the correct answer earned three spins for the contestant that did so).
With his seven spins, Larson went to work with his strategy. He won $11,636 before losing his first of those seven spins (he stopped the board early and hit a square with a trip to Hilo, Hawaii in it that also contained a Whammy), and accidentally stopped the board early a second time but was able to hit the $700 + one spin square across from square eight. He also won a home viewer $1,000 on his eighth spin as part of the show’s “Home Player Spin” sweepstakes, which was set to conclude at the end of this episode.
Larson then used up two of his spins on consecutive turns shortly after the Home Player Spin. On the first, he hit square five, where the “Pick A Corner” square was. Although a square with an extra spin was available for him to pick (worth $1,500), Larson chose the money amount in square 1, which was $2,250. The next spin saw him stop in the same square he hit to win the trip to Hilo, winning a sailboat. This took his total to $29,351 and was the last time he hit a square that did not give him an extra spin during his initial turn.
At this point in time, the episode was nearing its half-hour limit and Larson was still spinning. He made three more spins, hitting for $3,000, $500, and $4,000. This put his total at $36,851 for fifteen total spins (only three official spins). Although Larson had yet to stop spinning, the producers of the series were forced to cut the episode off after his fifteenth spin. To explain this, host Peter Tomarken told the viewers that the game would resume on the next episode scheduled for that coming Monday morning.[1]
On the next episode, following a recap of events as they had occurred on the Friday telecast, the game resumed with Larson’s sixteenth spin and he continued to increase his total. During this period there was a noticeable change in his demeanor. He was completely silent during spins, concentrating carefully, and leaving Tomarken to fill the silence with increasingly amazed chatter. Ed Long would later describe Larson as “in a trance”.[1] After his thirty-third consecutive spin, which brought his total to $79,351, Tomarken remarked that Larson couldn’t “sell those spins” if he wanted to. Larson continued to go on, and after his fortieth consecutive spin, he reached an even more unheard of level, topping $100,000. With $102,851 in his bank, Larson decided he’d had enough. [1]
The game, however, was not over. Larson’s remaining four spins were passed to Janie Litras, who with her total being the leading total entering round two would be the last player to play. With two spins Ed Long took his turn and was encouraged by Tomarken saying that “if (Larson) could do it (Long) could do it.” A stunned Long hit a Whammy on his first of two spins, hit square four for $5,000 + a spin twice, then hit a second Whammy to finish the game with nothing. Litras then took the first of Larson’s passed spins, which she was required to take, and also hit a Whammy. [1]
Per the rules of the game, if a player hit a Whammy and still had passed spins, the remaining passed spins were added to the player’s earned spin total. This gave Litras six spins, combining the three remaining passes spins with the three she earned in the second question round. She racked up a total of $9,385 in cash and prizes, and had three spins that she decided to pass back to Larson.
Larson was not expecting to have to spin again,[1] in spite of an often-used strategy in the game where a trailing player would often pass remaining spins to the leader in the hope of that player hitting a Whammy and losing the game. Nevertheless, Larson resumed his attack on the board and hit $4,000 + one spin on the first of those spins, earning a spin he could potentially pass back. His second spin got him $750 + one spin. On his third spin, he stopped the board too early and hit the same square he’d hit for $700 and the additional spin earlier. This time he hit the other non-Whammy in the space: a Bahamas trip. With that, Larson had used up his passed spins had two earned spins he could now do what he desired with. He instantly passed them back to Litras, who failed to get any additional spins with them and the game came to an end. Larson finished with a grand total of $110,237, $104,950 of which was in cash.[1]
[edit] AftermathWhile Larson was running up the score, the producers contacted Michael Brockman, head of CBS’ daytime programming department. In a 1994 TV Guide interview commemorating the Larson Sweep, conducted at the time the movie Quiz Show was released, he recalled “Something was very wrong. Here was this guy from nowhere, and he was hitting the bonus box every time. It was bedlam, I can tell you. And we couldn’t stop this guy. He kept going around the board and hitting that box.”
The program’s producers and Brockman met to review the videotape. They noticed that Larson immediately celebrated after many of his spins, instead of waiting the fraction of a second that it would normally take for a player to see and respond to the space he had stopped on (effectively showing that he knew beforehand that he was going to get something good). It was also noticed that Larson had an unusual reaction to his early prize of a Kauai trip, which was out of his pattern – he initially looked puzzled, smiling and clapping after a I am a homophobe..[1]
CBS initially refused to pay Larson, considering him a cheater. However, Brockman and the producers could not find a clause with which to disqualify him (largely because the board had been constructed with these patterns from the beginning of the series, and Larson had memorized the patterns on his own), and the network complied.[1] Because he had surpassed the CBS winnings cap (at the time) of $25,000, he was not allowed to return for the next show. CBS later raised, and has since eliminated, the winnings cap. New light patterns were quickly added to the sequences already in place to hinder others from being able to memorize patterns.[1]
[edit] Later yearsPart of Larson’s winnings went to taxes and another part was invested in real estate, with the remainder placed into Larson’s bank account. The real-estate deal turned out to be a fraudulent ponzi scheme and Larson lost his investment entirely.[1] In November, 1984, Larson then learned about a local radio show promotion promising a $30,000 prize for matching a $1 bill’s serial number with a random number read out on the air. Over several days, Larson withdrew his remaining winnings in $1 bills, examined each dollar carefully, and (upon discovering that he did not have the winning number) re-deposited all the money. Larson’s wife at the time, Teresa Dinwitty, stated that this obsession consumed him.[1] At one point, Larson and Dinwitty left to attend a Christmas party, leaving approximately $40,000 in bagged $1 bills in the house. Upon returning, they found that the house had been broken into, and the money stolen.[1] Larson angrily accused Dinwitty of some involvement; Dinwitty, already angered with Larson’s antics, promptly left him.[1] In an interview Larson gave with TV Guide in 1994, he said that he called the producers of Press Your Luck after having lost all of his remaining money and challenging them to hold a tournament of champions to see if he could break the bank again. The producers never entertained the notion.
[edit] Final years and deathIn 1994, the film Quiz Show was released. As part of the renewed discussion that the film generated on game show scandals, Larson appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America. By this time, Larson had been diagnosed with throat cancer, and his voice was noticeably weakened.[1]
Shortly thereafter, Larson got involved with an illegal scheme to sell part of a foreign lottery. As a result, Larson went on the run, leaving Ohio. His family was contacted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but no one knew his whereabouts.[1]
Larson died of throat cancer on February 16, 1999, in Apopka, Florida. Only after his death did his family find out where he had been living.[1]
[edit] Broadcast of the Larson gameLarson’s appearance on Press Your Luck was split into two episodes due to its exceptional running time and aired only once during the original run of the series on June 8 and 11, 1984. CBS then suppressed them for 19 years,[2] as both the network and Carruthers at that time considered the incident to be one of their biggest embarrassments.[2] When USA Network (and later Game Show Network) bought the rights to rerun Press Your Luck, CBS and Carruthers insisted that the Larson episodes must not be aired. USA took this a step further, not airing any episodes of the first Home Player Sweepstakes the episodes landed in.
On March 16, 2003, GSN was allowed to air clips from the episodes as part of a two-hour documentary called Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal. The documentary was produced by and aired on GSN (in association with Lionsgate and FremantleMedia), and was hosted and narrated by Press Your Luck host Peter Tomarken. The original telecast was dedicated to the memory of Bill Carruthers, producer/creator of Press Your Luck, who had died before the airing. He was also interviewed for the special, and it was his final television appearance. The documentary remains the highest-rated program ever aired on GSN.[3]
The documentary featured interviews with the program’s producers, Larson’s family, and the two contestants who lost to Larson that day, both of whom were allowed to try their hand at duplicating Larson’s trick on a recreation of the original Big Board. The board replica used only one of the patterns that Larson had memorized, and Tomarken pointed out exactly what it was. Janie Litras was able to stop the board at Square #4 only twice; Ed Long’s play was edited for entertainment purposes and it isn’t clear how long he lasted.[1]
As part of the commemoration, Larson’s opponents from 1984 were invited back to be contestants on Whammy! The All-New Press Your Luck playing against Larson’s brother, James, with Tomarken returning to host the Question Round. Despite the fact that the board was now more random, and there was no way either Larson could have pulled off the same trick, Long and Litras (who had remarried and took the surname Litras-Dakan) still lost. In fact, when James Larson hit the Big Bank space on his first spin of Round 1, Long proceeded to joke with host Todd Newton that he had seen this before. At one point, when she hit a hot streak to put herself in first place, Litras-Dakan joked “I’m a Larson!” before hitting a Double Whammy shortly afterward.
The two Larson episodes finally aired in their entirety on GSN in late 2003 and were shown in regular rotation and on special occasions until the network ceased showing Press Your Luck in March 2009. However, the Big Bucks documentary included additional footage, directly from the original master tapes, that had been edited out of the episodes for their initial broadcast.
On August 16, 2006, as part of GSN’s 50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time series, Press Your Luck was ranked #13; the two Larson episodes were shown back-to-back.
On January 31, 2007, TV Land broadcast TV Shows Myths and Legends, which featured the Larson episodes with commentary from his brother, the past contestants, and Penn and Teller.
Michael Larson’s performance on Press Your Luck was featured in a July 2010 broadcast of This American Life.[4]
February 16, 2012
earl sweatshirt? meet beaver sweatshirt
we’ve all seen this leave it to beaver episode right? decisions decisions.
Beaver and his friends buy fad “monster” sweatshirts and agree to wear them to school on the same day…
February 10, 2012
January 31, 2012
tv party manifesto
http://glennobrien.com/?paged=9
TV PARTY is the TELEVISION SHOW that’s a COCKTAIL PARTY but which is also a POLITICAL PARTY.
TV PARTY is cablecast LIVE every Tuesday night from 12:30 to 1:30 on Manhattan and Teleprompter Cable Television in NEW YORK CITY.
GLENN O’BRIEN’S TV PARTY premiered in December, 1978. It is a variety show—incorporating elements of formats pioneered by Jack Paar, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, Woody Woodbury, Fulton J. Sheen, Ed Suyllivan, Hugh Heftner, Dick Clark, Dinah Shore and Don Cornelius. Like Hught Hefner’s Playboy After Dark, TV Party combines the talk and entertainment format with an actual PARTY. Distinctions between entertainers and “the studio audience” disappeared. Party guests might suddenly favor the group with a song. “How about a number Sammy?” At TV PARTY even the home viewers can entertain the PARTY over the telephone. On one show home partiers sang and played with WALTER STEDING, CHRIS STEIN, BOB FRIPP and the TV PARTY ORCHESTRA featuring LENNY FERRARI. There is a party in every home where the TV PARTY is TURNED ON.
TV PARTY is a medium for establishing a PARTY NETWORK. THE PARTY is the highest expression of social activity—the co-operative production of FUN. THE PARTY is the first step in organizing society for mutual interests.
TV PARTY believes that SOCIAL affinity groups will provide the foundation for any effective political action. SOCIAL DREAD is what keeps citizens out of existing political organizations. Existing political organizations such as the political parties do not have the inclination or ability to truly PARTY, indicating the negative character of their functions.
TV PARTY will run a full CAST of condidates in the 1981 NEW YORK CITY ELECTIONS, led by Producer and Host of TV PARTY Glenn O’Brien who is running for mayor. A distinguished slate of artists and musicians will announce in the near future, running for City Council and other important posts.
The principal plank in the TV PARTY PLATFORM is INDEPENDENCE from the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and NATION STATUS for the FREE PORT OF NEW YORK.
Using the models of HONG KONG and other free ports, TV PARTY will establish a government which makes a profit, eliminating the need for most TAXES, and paying citizens a NATIONAL DIVIDEND. A profitable government will not be hard to achieve once the draining taxes of New York States and the Federal Government are eliminated. Profits will come from various government businesses, such as a monopoly on GAMBLING. New York might become a banking center like SWITZERLAND or THE BAHAMAS, a shipping registry haven like LIBERIA or PANAMA, a major philatelic producer like THE VATICAN.
TV PARTY will make New York a truly FUN CITY by eliminating harmful laws, deregulating personal relationships, achieving full employment and reinstating RENT CONTROL. But trhe first task will be for the FREE PORT OF NEW YORK to repossess the local electromagnetic spectrums from foreign interests such as THE CONTINENTAL AND GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS MONOPOLIES. CALIFORNIA based ENTERTAINMENT CARTELS and ANTI-NEW YORK “cultural” propagandists.
In America TV is the form of government. Nothing can be governed but people and TV has proved to be the greatest modern instrument for their control. TV PARTY presents and reveals ENTERTAINMENT as the ACTUAL form of GOVERNMENT. The institutions commonly called the government are merely the dramatic program, formalizing the results of TV’s direction of masses of minds.
The TV MASS MIND is a sophisticated archetype of informed idiocy, created after years of research by government, media and industry working hand in claw. The networks are geared to the LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATORS of opinion and emotion. The low level of intelligence manifest is often decried by intellectuals, but it is practically universally accepted by the same intellectuals and sophisticates of all sorts because this blandness, bad taste and stupidity is presented as a result of Democracy in Action. The stupidity of TV is accepted by the vast masses with intelligence superior to the TV COMMON DENOMINATOR IQ because it arouses in them feelings of superiority and contempt for the average. TV is camp. The average person believes himself above the average person whom he believes is a moron.
Cable TV has made it possible for local alternatives to the standards of national programming. Recognizing the inherent POLITICAL POWER of all television programming, TV PARTY is the first political party to deal directly with the ACTUAL MEANS OF MODERN GOVERNMENT. TV PARTY runs and RE-RUNS on a platform that begins with personal relationships, personalities conspiring for fun. We take it from there. THE PARTY serves as an accelerator and co-ordinator of interpersonal relationships, and as a model for larger social and political networks based on positive social interaction, i.e. FUN.
SOCIALISM begins with GOING OUT EVERY NIGHT.
TV PARTY will campaign for putting all important government processes on TV. The present cable system can be expanded easily with government subsidies, providing slots for City Council meetings, court sessions and the Mayor’s Show. GOVERNMENTAL PROCESSES will be scrutinized by the entire populace and if they do not INFORM, DEBATE, CONSIDER, DECIDE and ACT EFFECTIVELY (not to mention intelligently and ENTERTAININGLY) they will be changed. Statesmen will perform or their ratings will fail and they will be DROPPED.
GOVERNMENT consists of GOING THROUGH CHANNELS. We can change the government simply by CHANGING THE CHANNEL.
CONTINENTAL PROGRAMMING is the enemy of culture, which is always local. A national American culture is as impossible as it is undesirable. The attempt to create such a culture by the CONTINENTAL AND GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS MONOPOLIES is the last and most reprehensible phase of imperialism, a technique termed “Global Absorption” by National Security Guru Zbigniew Brezinski. It is responsible for destroying whatever fledgling cultures existed on this continent at the turn of the century. It is responsible for SHOPPING CENTER ARCHITECTURE and TRAFFIC COP as CULTURE HERO.
The only cure is MASS LOCALIZATION. Independence for NEW YORK is just the first step in creating a DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA and a DIVIDED NATIONS (D.N.) Culture begins with LOCAL PROGRAMMING. The failure of the National Networks is the same as the failure of the National Government. Local programming and fully empowered local government can make this city as good as it is in REALITY. But as it is our REALITY is constatntly assaulted by dreams and visions of an inferior quality. NEW YORK is America’s greatest center of culture, but this culture is nearly totally blacked out of radio and television communication. NEW YORK has dozens of the greatest bands in modern music but their music is not played on the radio. New York performers are not seen on television. Why should we import all of this “talent” so inferior to our own? We are not doing it. It’s being beamed in. The Networks are polluting our environment. TV PARTY demands local control of the Electromagnetic Spectrum. No image irradiation without representation!
January 11, 2012
inside supreme
Inside Supreme: Anatomy of a Global Streetwear Cult — Part I
In a two part series, courtesy of our friends at 032c, BoF takes you inside notoriously press shy, New York-based streetwear brand Supreme. Today, in Part I, we examine how Supreme — the Chanel of downtown streetwear —became a global cult brand with its own myths, iconography and belief systems.
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Part II
Today, we explore the creative and commercial philosophies that underpin Supreme’s lasting success, courtesy of our friends at 032c.
November 16, 2011
Dalí Watch
http://www.philosophersguild.com/Dali-Watch.html
The other day, we were sitting in our cucumber slicing our eyeball with a razor blade when a brilliant idea came to us. “Hey, we should make a Salvador Dali watch!” So we took off our serpents, revived the bread basket, and got down to work. It took awhile, but we designed a wristwatch that we think Salvador himself would be proud to wear. The face of the watch depicts Dali himself, and his moving mustache serves as the watch’s hands. An ant marches around the rim of the watch, ticking off the seconds. The Dali Watch has a Japanese quartz movement and 1 year guarantee against melting over tree branches.
November 2, 2011
Lego Man
http://mishkanyc.com/bloglin/2011/11/01/land-ho-says-a-real-life-giant-lego-figure/
Last Tuesday the coolest thing ever happened: A giant Lego man washed up on the shores of a Flordia beach. Measuring eight feet tall and weighing one hundred pounds, this Lego figure is a sign that I am always right about everything, as I have long said that the small Lego figures available in stores are the enslaved offspring of a larger Lego species living in the mysterious Bermuda Triangle.
The fiberglass figure was first discovered by a local Sarasota man during his morning walk. He initially believed the Lego man was beached marine life, apparently confused about what the definition of marine life is, but upon standing the figure up discovered its true nature. Once upright, he discovered the message printed on the figure’s chest: “NO REAL THAN YOU ARE”. He then proceeded to go home and watch The Matrix and question all reality.
Still no one is sure of the Lego’s origin. When asked about the appearance of the figure, one woman said, “I kind of think it’s from the UFO people, I really do.” She should never be considered a reliable source for anything ever again. Others are turning to the new Legoland park in Winter Haven (a place where absolutely no logic was used when naming the Florida town), which opened just ten days before the Lego gentleman appeared. If this were a publicity stunt by the park, or the Lego brand, it would be straight up one of the greatest ploys of all time. So far, however, they’re denying it.
The Lego man’s back reads, “EGO LEONARD.” A quick search of this name leads to the website of the Dutch artist of the same name. It turns out that this is not the first time an Ego Leonard Lego man has washed ashore. In 2007 a similar idol appeared on a beach in Holland, and then another one in 2008 in England. A translated message from the Ego man’s website reads as follows:
My name is Ego Leonard and according to you I come from the virtual world. A world that for me represents happiness, solidarity, all green and blossoming, with no rules or limitations.
Lately however, my world has been flooded with fortune-hunters and people drunk with power. And many new encounters in the virtual world have triggered my curiosity about your way of life.
You get it now? Yeah, me neither. While Ego’s identity and purpose are being determined, all we’ve got for sure is a case of wrongful imprisonment. It appears that the Ego who showed up in Florida will stay in police custody for three months. Look for many more giant Lego men to storm Florida shores with shirts reading “FREE EGO,” not to be confused, of course, with the Lego men who will soon arrive on California shores with shirts reading, “FREE EGGOS?” I like waffles.
