Pun of the day

Monday's San Francisco Chronicle has a story called, "Justice is served: A Harvard Law grad develops an odd obsession." Here's the gist of it:

Klein spends nearly every free minute making magic marker drawings. Not just any magic marker drawings, but drawings that are converted to dinner plates — Make-a-Plates, specifically, that cheap craft store staple where marker drawings are transferred permanently onto melamine dishware. Klein had never been a drawer, but something swept over him. It wasn't landscapes and still lifes that emerged, but the figures and doctrines that comprise the jurisprudential canon. With a savantlike intensity he began translating law school into odd and remarkably lovely images you can eat off of.

There's "Planned Parenthood v. American Coalition of Life Activists," part of the First Amendment series. There's the Punitive Damages collection. There are six plates commemorating the Interstate Commerce Clause. Then there's each of the Supreme Court justices, lovingly rendered. And so it was that Klein had become something of an outsider artist at perhaps the ultimate insider institution.

What does this brilliant artist call his creations? Learned Handmade Plates. Hardy-harr-harr. Sorry it's very hammy, but I still find it funny. If you don't get it, please educate yourself here.

Here's a pic of the Justice Scalia plate: