It's a Small World, After All I don't know how many of you tuned in to watch David Blaine's latest public suicide attempt, when after a week of living inside a spherical fishbowl, he attempted to break the record for underwater breath-holding. (By the way, I assume that Guinness has broken this particular record into "voluntarily" and "involuntarily" categories, as I've heard many tales of accident victims revived after being submerged for as long as half an hour, while Blaine was gunning to hold his breath for "only" nine minutes.) In case you missed it, here are a couple of pictures of Blaine in his custom water tank:





This ridiculousness was televised live Monday evening on ABC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Disney Corporation. I mention this because my family and I spent a week at the end of April at the DisneyWorld theme parks in Florida. Now I work in a fashion-based industry (stop laughing), so I know all about marketing and the need to cross-promote your brands, but I think Disney might have gone one step ove the line with the new theme for their Magic Kingdom Character Parade....







I mean, when the Dwarves had to pull Pinnochio out of the tank and Doc started administering CPR... it was a little harrowing for my four year old. They need to save that shit for the MGM Studios park.  ¶ 2:22 PM