Mr. Stevens, I Presume?

What little free time I have these days has me spending most of it with Goof (I linked to her in the hopes that she'll use it as incentive to post something.) With the remainder, I've been getting flat tires fixed (twice), working at a new desk which everyone in the company can easily see, reading my book, watching Project Runway, and playing video games. Mind you, I can only devote, like, 32 seconds a day to each of those things, but I still find them enjoyable. Well, except the first two.

So... I promised a real post "soon." Thank God for ambiguous terms. "Soon" it shall be, and I think we'll just leave it at that. For now? A Youtube video that's given Goof and I hysterical fits of laughter for days. We're both Eddie Izzard fans, and someone took one of his stand-up bits and set it to cinema with Lego pieces. Don't laugh too hard, now. I'll see you shortly.

"Great, Kid. Don't Get Cocky."

A little less than three weeks ago, the first ever high-wire championship was staged in the South Korean capital of Seoul. Eighteen contestants from nine countries competed over the course of three days for the $15,000 prize, awarded to the acrobat who could most quickly cross a tightrope spanning the Han River. It being the longest tightrope ever strung, any contestant to make it across would also break the record for distance (well... technically, the first person to cross would break the record. The rest would simply tie, but you know...)

Among the contestants were Jade Kindar-Martin of Shelburne, Vt., a former Cirque du Soleil performer who once crossed London's River Thames at a height of 150 feet, Colombia's Alan Martinez, who ambled across the Amazon, and Adili Wuxiuer of China - the world record-holder for distance who walked on a wire nearly a half-mile across the Chongqing Cliff at a height of 2,250 feet in 2003.

So, who won? Um... I have no idea, actually. Why did I bother to bring it up then? Because it allowed the Associated Press (and affiliated outlets) to print what must surely be the headline of the year, if not the millennium...

P.S. Thanks for being patient, folks. There'll be another post within a couple days....