Mike Wilson Is Completely Reckless!

Seriously. There could be poison ivy growing there. He should be more careful when he climbs up. Or ticks! Mosquitoes...



Mike was on the BSBFB before. 

(Thanks to Brian Erb for sending that one along)

Just A Couple Of Rubes That Lost Their Marbles

Dads are occasionally useful. I'm not talking about this contraption; it's totally useless, but lots of fun.

The guy might have painted the room. So there you go. Useful.

You Can Call Yourself An "Artist" All You Want. You're Still My Hero For Finding A Way To Play With Matchbox Cars After Puberty

Chris Burden

I Told You! No Capes!

Pond-skimming at Killington Vermont

A Ferrari Rollecoaster? Meh. I'm Holding Out For A NASA Go-Kart

The world's fastest rollercoaster at Ferrari World In Abu Dhabi, UAE.



I was unaware you were required to wear matching costumes to ride a rollercoaster. Learn something new every day.

(Thanks to Brain Erb for sending that one along)

The Official Winter Sport Of The BSBFB: Downhill Loose Tooth Hockey Fight Luge Hopped Up On Caffeine Roller Derby

Have a Labatt and an elbow.

(Thanks to Charles Schneider for sending that along)

Recalculating...

...in .1 miles, take a left.



(Thanks to Charles Schneider for sending that one along)

How The Borderline Boy Mows The Lawn Of His Tree Fort

FlyingThingz.com

What, No Wolfgang Yngwie Mozart? Amateurs

I Just Paddled Across The Pacific, And Boy Am I Thor

BSBFB shout-out and Hall of Fame genuflection to Thor Heyerdahl. I remember checking Kon-Tiki out of our little library and watching snow rime our windows while I dreamed of piloting a raft across the Pacific. Peru to Polynesia on a dancefloor of balsa logs. Bad. Ass. He was trying to prove a point:

Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. His aim in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time, that there were no technical reasons to prevent them from having done so. (Although the expedition carried some modern equipment, such as a radio, watches, charts, sextant, and metal knives, Heyerdahl argued they were incidental to the purpose of proving that the raft itself could make the journey.)

Sometimes you prove a different sort of point than you were after.

Bare Feet Always Make The Best Crampons

Kid's got potential. Perhaps someday he can join a real mountaineering expedition:



(Photo from the always fun Awkward Family Photos)

I Used To Play Goalie. I'm Glad I Don't Anymore

Sidney Crosby

The Sun Never Shines In Edinburgh but Danny MacAskill Does

Danny MegaSkill

(Thanks to Brian Erb for sending that one along)

Dude, You Missed One

Jay Kletecka, World Record Holder in Pop-A-Shot. Which is nice.

(Thanks, Charles Schneider for sending this one along)

I Heard A Rumor That People Once Skateboarded Without A Camera Pointed At Them, But I Don't Believe A Word Of It

Rodney Mullen, in Japan in 1984. George Orwell couldn't conceive of a world gone so mad that an American would skateboard for a crowd of Japanese, and in socks like that.



Rodney Mullen!

A Jeep Wasn't Always A Vehicle Used For Taking Your Little Sister To Soccer Practice

Rat Patrol!

Tomorrow: Bazooka Biathlon

(Thanks to our Intertunnel friend Gerard of American Digest for sending that one along)

The Borderline Sociopathic Blog For Boys. Your One-Stop Shop For The Craziest And Most Desperate Extreme Lovers

Gotta love Russian Websites translated into Engrish. Here's the caption to go with the pictures of a stunt show put on in Rostov-On-Don:

Last Friday Rostov-on-Don city held an extreme stuntman show. The craziest and most desperate extreme-lovers took part in the show. There were different tricks with fire, jumping, both with cars and big trucks, but everything went off victimless and the participants, as well as the spectators got much pleasure and adrenaline!

Lots more pictures of barely organized foolishness, and lots of girls in bikinis for no apparent reason other than pleasure and adrenaline, at English Russia

(Thanks to Misterarthur for sending that one along)

People Of Earth: Attention

When it mentioned "terrors from strange worlds," I thought they were referring to the public restroom in a Taco Bell. My bad.



Can't turn down anything with Emma Peel in a leather catsuit. Can't.

Like The Old Joke About Sled Dogs, If You're Number 22, The View Is Always The Same

Philadelphia Eagles Coach Andy Ried... I mean Reid, participating in a Punt, Pass and Kick contest when he was thirteen years old. Allegedly.

ProTip: Wear Wool Socks. And A Diaper

(Thanks, Charles Schneider!)

ProTip: When Racing Your Mustang 250 MPH At Bonneville, It's Blue Thing Up, White Stuff Down

Real Men Can Cook

And tell a story. Look after children. Charm a woman. Strike an honest bargain. Command respect. Oppose evildoers.



And a real actor can read a recipe with a camera pointed at him, and make it scintillating. Roscoe Lee Browne. Gone but not forgotten. The Coen brothers have remade True Grit, which is a fine idea. They should try their hands at The Cowboys next. It's a better story.

Hah! Six bucks on Amazon. The best stuff is always cheaper than dreck.

You Will Know, When You Are Calm, At Peace, Passive. A Man In A Tree Stand Uses The Force For Knowledge and Defense, Never For Attack

Fred Crossset Tries To Bring Some Humanity To A Bunch Of Big, Rusty Semicircles

(Thanks to Charles Scheneider for sending that one along)

ProTip: If Lawrence Of Arabia Offers You A Ride On This, Say No

Pontiac Is Officially Dead Now. But, But, How Will Jim Rockford Pick Up Hot Babes Without A Firebird?

DETROIT — Pontiac, the brand that invented the muscle car under its flamboyant engineer John Z. DeLorean, helped Burt Reynolds elude Sheriff Justice in “Smokey and the Bandit” and taught baby boomers to salivate over horsepower, but produced mostly forgettable cars for their children, will endure a lonely death on Sunday after about 40 million in sales. (NY Times)

They Weren't All Undertakers And Ambulance Chasers

Any way you slice it, it's a wan bunch we've got running the country. It wasn't always so. There was a reason children carried around little stuffed bears, and still do. It wasn't a stuffed kitty or lamb or giraffe or cow. It was a bear. A Teddy bear.

Does Anyone Even Make Stock Bikes Anymore?

They point a camera at every Tom, Dick, and Harry that can weld a little nowadays. But if I wanted to see arguing, I'd put on The View, thanks. I've worked in places where welding is done, and "arguing" was fairly rare, but done with fists(or knives on a bad day)generally, so I'm not buying. Someone should point a camera at Jesse Rooke. Whimsical welding and road rash, coming right up!

Jesse Rooke Customs

I Could Do That, But I Was Born Without The "Velcro On My Feet" Gene