Blaine's hanging around NYC
NEW YORK -- What's David Blaine up to? Oh, just hanging around.
The magician-daredevil proclaimed "I'm doin' all right" after starting his latest endurance challenge on Monday -- 60 hours hanging upside-down, without a net, above Wollman Rink in Manhattan's Central Park.
Blaine -- sounding nasal from sinus pressure -- kept smiling while describing the "enormous push of blood" that made it feel like his head was "about to explode."
As a kid, he was intrigued when Harry Houdini dangled from a crane by his ankles while escaping a straitjacket.
Says Blaine: "The legs go pin and needle very fast." Stretches -- kind of an upside-down sit-up -- seem to help.
If inquiring minds really must know, Blaine uses a catheter when nature calls.
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