Buzzstuff: Just Hangin' Around

April 06, 2005

Just Hangin' Around

Ok, here's a question for you. Say someone jams giant fishooks into your flesh and then lifts you off the floor by them. How much could you sue them for?

Yeah. That's what I thought too. We were both wrong.

How about instead of suing them, you actually PAID them $100! Incredible, you say? I agree, and yet.....

Warning...picture is a bit on the graphic side. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Rosemary Curtis (R) holds the hand of her boyfriend Michael Belardo as he hangs in the 'Superman' pose during a Suspension Convention in Providence, Rhode Island, April 2, 2005. From tentative first-timers to well-practiced masters, more than 100 aficionados celebrated their passion for body suspension at the three-day gathering, held in an old textile mill.
(Chip East/Reuters)

Posted by Buzz at April 6, 2005 10:54 AM

Comments

Mm... yummilicious with my breakfast!

Whatcha doin' today honey?

Nuthin'. Just hanging around a dumb old convention.

*ba dum bump, chssssh*

Posted by: Kris at April 6, 2005 10:59 AM

that's actually how my new alarm clock works ... after i've hit snooze for the third time, it hooks me and lifts me off the bed. quite effective actually. hehe.

Posted by: tj at April 6, 2005 11:32 AM

Your talent for unearthing the Seriously Fucking Wrong has been greatly missed.

*shudder*

Posted by: QC at April 6, 2005 11:37 AM

eww!! eww!! eww!! eww!!

Oh...and I'd like to second what QC said.

Posted by: KathyHowe at April 6, 2005 12:44 PM

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

::covering eyes and running AWAY SCREAMING::

Posted by: Kate at April 6, 2005 12:57 PM

Ooops - damn caps lock key

Posted by: Kate at April 6, 2005 12:59 PM

That is just so wrong.

I second Kathy Howe's second of QC.

Posted by: Vickie at April 6, 2005 01:46 PM

I actually got to see this done firsthand, back in the early 90's, when I went to my first (an subsequently last) S&M fashion show. However, when I went, I got to see a guy lifted up pff the ground, suspended from a broomstick by two people on either side of him. Call it "spiritual" or whatever, I think it's cuckoobirds. The things some people will do to be "alternative/individuals." Feh

Posted by: Kirkkitsch at April 6, 2005 02:10 PM

EEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!! I only noticed you were back today! I'm SOOOO happy your back!! I had refused to take you off the blogroll just in case. I'm glad I left it there!

Posted by: Pixie at April 6, 2005 02:23 PM

man, isn't life painful enough some days WITHOUT having humongous hooks shoved into places they were never meant to be?

Posted by: caitlin at April 6, 2005 02:39 PM

Didn't they do that in "A Man Called Horse"?

Posted by: Genuine at April 6, 2005 02:58 PM

Egads! That's some sick puppy!

Posted by: Beverly at April 6, 2005 04:12 PM

Okay to each his own...But, OMG!

Who wakes up one day and thinks..."Hmmm..I wonder how it would feel to hang from the ceiling by giant fishooks?"

"Hey, Hon....Do you know where I can get some Giant Fishooks?"

SCARY!!!

Posted by: Wendi at April 6, 2005 04:30 PM

Eeeeeewwww...eeeewwwwww and oh yeah..EEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW. You know you are getting old when you think that he is someone's son...his mother must be so proud.

Posted by: fran at April 6, 2005 04:39 PM

ow. ow. ow . oh yeah, and ow. My eyes are not deceiving me right? That is NOT Johnny?

Posted by: debby at April 6, 2005 05:49 PM

ok. First of all...

SCREW YOU FOR NOT TELLING ME YOU'RE BACK!!!!

Second, I aint looking! HELL NO!

Third, SCREW YOU AGAIN FOR NOT TELLING ME YOU WERE BACK!!!!

Posted by: Y at April 6, 2005 06:47 PM

My eyes!!! I can't believe what some people are into.

Posted by: angie at April 6, 2005 07:06 PM

You know I seen something on television about this. I actually saw a couple get married while they were both suspended in mid air by hooks in their backs.

How crazy is that?

Posted by: Janice at April 6, 2005 07:45 PM

i was watching tv and i saw a couple get married while suspended. ewww!

Posted by: Alicia at April 6, 2005 07:52 PM

That is NOT what I wanted to see just before going to bed. *shiver*

Posted by: zee at April 7, 2005 12:06 AM

I'm beginning to understand what all the buzz is about...suspended belief is all I can say!

Posted by: bonnie at April 7, 2005 03:20 AM

I think I saw this done at OBFEST. No it must have been the Super Bowl party I was at this year.

Posted by: MIKE at April 7, 2005 02:55 PM

ROFL, you totally just made me laugh when I had to answer the phone at work: "MYCOMPANY (giggle) This is (snort, giggle) me." Thanks!

Posted by: Janet at April 8, 2005 02:34 PM

Also, this was done on a tv reality show called Mad Mad House...a guy named Art, who they termed a Modern Primative (he has tons of tats & piercings; owns a shop in CA) did it. Hmmm...

Posted by: Janet at April 8, 2005 02:37 PM

Total supporter of the Body Mod culture, but WTF is this? Who decided this was a good idea? I mean seriously, between this and the corset chicks, I have to wonder about mental stability. Some good friends of ours own a tattoo and piercing shop, and my hubs is heavily tatted, but in all of the portfolios of all the artists there, I've never seen something so insane.

Posted by: Crystal at April 12, 2005 10:54 PM

Posts like this, Buzz, are what I missed. Is that actually PLEASURABLE???!!??? I know, you don't have the answer to that (or at least I hope not)... but jeez!

ICK and EEEW!

Posted by: ironic1 at April 13, 2005 07:07 PM