Close to Home by John McPherson for September 17, 2019

This identifies the fakirs.

Hot coals would work too, but I can’t think of how they’d be attached to a rotating tread belt. Fakirs would walk on hot coals, but lie on a bed of spikes (at least in the stereotype). :-)

Bleeb thinks the fool is funny, running on red AstroTurf claiming it’s nails

Howdy friends and Bleeb fans,

Of course, it hurts a lot when you have to come up on the red carpet. It takes a lot of training.

Smart, red will hide the blood stains.

I would expect the graph to show pain clusters coinciding w/each footfall.

Looks like he’s nailed the Pain Master!

Ooh… think you’re tough? Try Legos.

Looks like a sticky situation.

Bleeb! Don’t let the cobra out of that basket!!!

But it feels so good when you get off. Don’t bloody up the rugs!

HOLEY COW!

The marathon of life.