Having once trained for Mt. Whitney by running hills holding my breath, I’m not immune to interesting ways of tricking the body into going beyond where it is comfortable. This guy has found a technique that works for him, so more power to him. I love the two very different reactions to him. On the one hand, he’s completely ignored; on the other, people can’t stop staring:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYfSTzIqLCU[/youtube]
(you don’t have to watch the whole thing; it’s pretty long, and about 20 secs will give you all you need to know).
For many years now I've left a trail of flecks across the Internet. Just begun novels; explorations of culture, music, writing, food, the future, mountains, long distances, shallow oceans, deep canyons; oddly-composed music; even more oddly-constructed poetry; impassioned editorial; strident analysis, and a slew of images, sounds, and scribbles. Most of this has passed into the aether, waiting only for some semi-sentient algorithm to pull it from obscurity twenty years hence. In the meantime, there is this lodestone, gathering what it can.