David Blaine Holds Breath For A Pretty Long Time
By now we're sure that you know that despite the reassuring presence of a small army of medical personnel and a personal drowning coach at the side of his waterball, magician David Blaine failed to set the world breath-holding record on last night's live television special, David Blaine: Sopping Wet Attention Whore, falling nearly two minutes short of his goal. But through the magic of internet video, you can experience those claustrophobic, waterlogged seven minutes and eight seconds again this morning, free of the tension that at any moment a giant ping pong ball might crash into his dramatically lit fishbowl, followed by God's arm reaching down from the sky to claim his hard-won carnival prize.