Super lifehacker Tim Ferriss is a bit of a masochist, the kind of guy who will ask doctors to drill a chunk of muscle out of his leg to analyze the fibers.
Last May the city's entire political establishment was embarrassed when a birthday party honouring Jack Davis, who ran Mr Brown's campaign for mayor, featured a leather-clad sado-masochist carving a pentagram into the back of a scantily dressed man.