March 21, 2007

Spiderman thwarted on his second attempt at scaling the Petronas Twin Towers without any ropes or safety devices. Alain Robert likes to climb.
  • Is he strong?
  • Listen, bud. He's got radioactive blood.
  • 'ee's up that like a rat up a pipe!
  • I knew I could count on you, MCT
  • He's living fast and will die young, but I very much doubt he'll leave a good-looking corpse.
  • A fellow Frenchman visiting the towers was not impressed. "There are always people who seek to distinguish themselves from others," said the president of the French senate, Christian Poncelet. "But he could have done it elsewhere." That's the best the journalist could come up with?
  • Reading this actually gave me vertigo. I can't imagine going up in Petronas IN THE ELEVATOR; just thinking about climbing the outside makes me want to get as close to the earth as possible. Right now. *lies down, covers eyes*