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Meet The Mayors: High Rise Wind Tunnel

By MORGAN FINKELSTEIN

February 1, 2011 at 12:31 pm

Welcome back to a new semester of Meet The Mayors. This week: a place that arguably actually exists, the High Rise Wind Tunnel. The mayor, Marcus W., is a junior from Houston, TX.

UTB: How do you check-in? Don't your fingers get cold?

Marcus W.: Here's the technique: I quickly take off my right hand glove with my left hand, and within 5 seconds, I grab my iPhone open Foursquare to my name and my mayorships, not places (this is the key). That way I can see the 'High Rise Wind Tunnel' (thanks to whoever updated the name), check in and I'm done. Do my fingers get cold? The pain is subdued by the adrenaline of each check-in.

UTB: Where would you define the borders of the Wind Tunnel? When does it just become "really cold out?" Marcus W.: The great thing about the wind tunnel is it's ever-changing, although if I had to make a border, it'd be 39th and Spruce/Walnut, past Rodin and right past Commons. Even when it's really cold out, the Wind Tunnel lets itself be known.

UTB: Do you get any perks from being the mayor? Marcus W.: I get to attend meetings with the mayors of the High Rises and discuss issues on how we can improve the 39th and Locust area. Not.

UTB: If you get trapped in the center, does it take you to Oz or Theos? Neither. There's no place like De-Fancy. There's no place like De-Fancy. There's no place like De-Fancy.

UTB: What would you say to someone who would argue that you're not the mayor of a real place?
Have you ever been pissed off walking through the High Rises, during a snow/hailstorm, rain or sub-10 degree weather, and thought to yourself "why didn't I take 40th street home?"
How many of your personal umbrellas have been lost to the Wind Tunnel?

Two, but as the mayor I can take other people's umbrellas at will.

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