Just saw James Marsh’s wonderful documentary Man On Wire, about Phillipe Petit’s extraordinary wirewalk thirty-four years ago between the two rooftops of the now destroyed twin towers of the World Trade Center. Petit, France’s busking performer/provacateur, had been obsessed by the towers from the moment he read that they would be built. The film details the meticulous and sometimes haphazard preparations leading up to Petit’s jaunty trek on August 7th, 1974.

And, of course, it shows us the walk itself, an exciting, breathtaking, pulse-pounding, once-in-a-lifetime event.

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I’ve been reading your negative comments below. It seems you don’t think my humorous pieces are humorous and the rest is, well, your final, general comment was: However, I’d also say that this site is VERY obscure, and - based on the incredibly low caliber of the work done on it (even by right wing blog standards) is so low, that that is unlikely to ever change.

I’ve said this many times here, William, no-relation-to-the fine-actor-Bill, Atherton, the Third, I don’t care if the blog is obscure. I do it because, well, I do things. Many friends and friends of friends read it, send me E-mails approving or disapproving. I tell them to put the comments under the post, but they’d rather respond to me personally. Obscure or not, it’s me taking the time to put something out there. Creating something.

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