That is just how it has to be:

Oh please.  Get your mind out of the gutter.  This ain’t that blog.  I was trying to think of an original title for this entry and when I saw this photo, “tie me up” came to mind:

Notice the straitjacket.  It makes quite the fashion accessory.  Here is a vertical view:

I also like the serious black shoes.  He mentioned a few times during his extremely amusing act that this is his day job, so I guess proper footwear is required.

Now what is he going to do for an encore?  I wonder.  I really wonder.  Wait.  Hang upside down, of course:

Street performers, I have found kind of all do the same thing.  They do amazing things that they have probably done many a time before, but he had to look like he was struggling.  He did a really good job with that:

Yeah, the tongue does make the photo.  Another one?  OK:

Well, of course as these things go, he does ultimately get out:

Tie me down!  OK, I did it.

Yeah.  That is what that means.  Don’t believe me?  Well, check this out:

And if you don’t have lobster headbands, then you can always just wear a cape:

Am I crazy or is that building smilizing at me?:

Almost one year ago I came to a startling realization.  I needed to photograph Barbie.  OK, stay with me here.  I needed to photograph Barbie, sure, but how was I going to do that?  I didn’t play with the doll as a kid, I didn’t own any, didn’t have access to any, so how was I going to do it?

Well, by going to down to my then local FAO Schwatrz and doing it.  The results were predictably very lovely and surprisingly popular.  In commemoration of that fateful day, may I present the Barbie for 2010: