yee-haw, indeed

well, that's not something you see everyday

[via]

Vertigo

As I get older, I find myself becoming more susceptible to vertigo (vertiginous?). I'm not Jimmy Stewart fainting in a clock tower, yet, but I could definitely feel a tingle of paralysis by imagining myself climbing up this abandoned radio antenna.

Is it weird to do that - to test yourself like that? I did go up the CN Tower in Toronto a few years ago, which is probably 1.5 times as high as the antenna tower above, and walk out on the transparent floor they have up there (e.g.). That took a little getting used to, but I couldn't imagine walking outside on a steel girder. No way. I can't imagine working on the super-tall Burj Dubai.

And that concludes today's ruminitions on Mike's phobias.

I'm ready for my close-up

12 movie industry camera cars.

That's a hell of a rig - click through for eleven more

Semi-Amazing

The price of a house in Detroit.

And that's the average.

That's not a telephoto lens

This is a telephoto lens: Canon 1200/5.6L. Crikey.

Oh my

"That's one model agency phone call we would have loved to have listened in on."

I'm going to play coy here, and you will just have to click through. YMMV.

Literature

Courtney Love takes a swing at writing Gen X's Finnegan Wake.

NB, drugs are bad.

Google Answers

Google Answers: What's it like to be shot by a handgun? Scroll down to the fourth comment. Warning, graphic text description. Derr.