# David Blaine in a box **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 29, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-blaine-in-a-box/198459 "2003-08-29T16:57:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-blaine-in-a-box/198459/21 "2003-08-30T13:49:18Z")
That must be where he gets his mystical “powers” from. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-blaine-in-a-box/198459/22 "2003-08-30T22:34:22Z")
Haven’t heard Blaine claim to have gen-you-ine mystical powers yet, but I’ll keep an ear open the next time I see him. I agree, that would be major ass-hat-ery… ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-blaine-in-a-box/198459/23 "2003-08-31T00:53:50Z")
Blaine’s a clever man. He knows how to generate publicity. Some of the stuff he’s done has been pretty remarkable and you can’t criticize him for being a showman. That’s what magicians do. Having said that, certain aspects of his public persona do get on my nerves. But I wouldn’t take any of his public utterances too seriously. It’s all part of building up a mystique. Have any of you seen the live ‘interview’ he did a while back for UK breakfast TV? His involvement never went further than repeating a spaced out “Heurgh.” The poor interviewer was totally flummoxed, but couldn’t get a proper word out of him. It was the weirdest interview, but all a calculated part of building Blaine’s weird persona. The endurance tasks, however, are beginning to get a bit old-hat, not to mention pointless. He could also do with giving Uri a much wider berth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-blaine-in-a-box/198459.md?page=1)