For 35 hours, David Blaine will stand high atop Manhattan’s Bryant Park with nothing more than a 22-inch platform separating him and a 100-foot freefall into would-be ratings history.

You can imagine our surprise when we discovered this while trying to use the pisser on the 23rd floor of our offices, and were greeted by Blaine, perched like a cockatiel outside the window, and glaring back at us. After the brief performance anxiety that’s inevitable when any aggressive Gen-X magician watches you pee, we resolved to rival this charlatan, to prove that any schmuck on unemployment can spend a day and a half loitering in the park.

Only we’ve aimed our sights higher.

That’s right. If David Blaine can loaf 10 stories above Midtown, a Maxim Online editor can surely survive 23. And, while we weren’t able to acquire the 100-foot pole (curiously, they were out of the only one they had in stock), we do have a bucket. So, chart Jordan Burchette’s exploits as he roosts in tandem with his new nemesis on our live Bucket Cam!

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