Continuing the theme of shameless plugs for my relatives...

If you happen to be reading this from Taiwan (and I know some people do), go see my cousin Melinda Heywood Pavlata and her partner Sacha Pavlata perform their Cirque Passion trapeze act this weekend.  They are on tour with the world famous Flying Wallendas who perform death-defying high-wire stunts without any safety net.

Click here for an article in Chinese about the performance, and here for info in English (scroll down towards the bottom of the page). Essential info: 空中飛人大馬戲團 on October 21 and 22 at the Taipei Arena台北小巨蛋 ( Nanjing East Rd. Sec.4, Taipei 台北市南京東路四段2號; Tel: (02) 2577-3500 ) Click here to book tickets.

Here's a (not very good) video of the Wallendas in action, taken last year on my digital camera at a Circus Flora performance in Nantucket: