i wouldnt want to be his girlfriend after hes recovered.
phew you stink dave
come…here…baby…
bleeegh!
Tsunami.
look into the eye…
He’s probably been pulling off a sly one in the wee small hours, and EATING the evidence. In fact that’s how he’s survived, auto-cannibalistically (less painful than gnawing off your foot).
Someone should tell Dan Savage.
Anyway, I’m off to write a limerick on the subject…
How about this:
An international schism
Was caused by a man in a prism:
The cynical Brits
Said he kept his man-tits
By slurping away at his jism.
Nice one jjimm, mine’s not a limerick at al…
Come, Come! See The Freak (Or why I’m not a poet)
David Blaine, what a pain.
Spent six weeks in a plastic tank
I know it’s true, as his hunger grew,
That every night he’d have a wank
It’s quite frustrating, self-fellating,
And requires a spine that bends a lot
His feat attritional, his spunk nutritional,
A hundred calories a shot
Author! Author! 
Marvellous
A magician who was fast losing weight
Thought a wank would his hunger sate
But he was too weak
To even give it a tweak
So decided to auto-fellate.
maybe someone should wang a pie at him when he hits the ground on sunday.dressed as a clown.
or at least they should hose him down and throw delousing powder over him, like in Rambo first blood. i’d like to see Brian Dennehy there making sure everythings done right in an evil sherriff type way.
“son, you aint none o’ my loins!”
and yes, i know thats Smokey + the Bandit
smiley
The quality of this thread is definitely going down.
Downhill! I meant downhill!
He’s going to be dressed as a clown? Is that the trick then - he’s got a clown suit hidden in the box?
Now that’s magic.
Can you feel the magic?
Shazam.
Brian Dennehy.
i tells ya.
blaine on leaving his fishtank
"I’ve learned how strong we all are as human beings. How strong we all are.
“But most importantly I’ve learned to appreciate all the simple things in life - a sunrise, a sunset, a smile from a strange one, a smile from a loved one and I thank you all so much. I love you all so much. I love you”.
he’ll learn how strong i am as a human being if i catch up with him. waste of time, oxygen, money and skin.
gaaa!
One thing I have to add that I don’t think anyone will care much about is that when Fierra, Tansu, and I went to see Mr. Blaine this last weekend, I was expecting sort of a carnival/freakshow/dumbass stunt attitude surrounding it.
Instead, the effect was surprisingly…somber. We got to see him lay there, and move, and wave weakly to the crowd. Got some pictures of him as well (which I’ll let UB Members see). But even though we had been having a laugh at his expense after getting off at Tower Hill, for some reason it just didn’t have a very funny atmosphere to it when we pushed through the crowd on the bridge and saw him.
This wasn’t just us either; I think the whole crowd was somewhat subdued as well. Yes, there were the occasional yobs and silly buggers shouting our rude phrases and people hamming it up with their cameras, but the other 99.9% of the crowd was mostly…well, pretty quiet and contemplative.
I don’t know anything about what the real purpose of his whole stunt was or if it was just an ego pumping/publicity thing or what, but I just wanted to say from firsthand report that the whole thing didn’t really have the carnival attitude that the press seems to say surrounds it.
I guess part of that may have been that when we went along it was right near the end of his stay in the box - maybe everyone had run out of carnival attitude. The pranks got done relatively early on during the stunt, and there wouldn’t have been constant pranking anyway.
Or, quite likely, that people go along to have a quick gawk, but once they get there — well, what is there to actually do? There he is in his box. There are all the people looking at him. And that’s it.
The crowd looking at him is almost the real spectacle. “Here are all these people looking at David bleedin’ Blaine, and bugger me, I’m one of them. How’d that happen?” I wonder how many of the people who stopped by to look at him were thinking along those lines.
I agree, not only that but did you see the show they had for his big exit. It’s re-running on C4 tonight (so I guess the following might ‘spoil’ it for some people).
I wasn’t fully watching so I missed who made the video or why, but it’s they had this video of Blaine doing bizarre stuff and was, possibly, the most mind-blowingly fake-arty pretenious wank I’ve seen this year. Blaine with red paint running over his face flicking cards at the camera, Blaine surrounded by naked women shuffling cards while looking disinterested, etc.
If I missed some important set-up for the film that explains then fair enough, or maybe I missed the part where it says he’s donating all the proceeds to good causes. But assumming that there was nothing like that …
Sorry, Blaine, you’re not that good or important or special. You sat in a box and did nothing for 44 days, good for you. Now please fuck off and take your pretentious wank with you.
SD
That, and it being a different crowd. Those who went along in the early days got bored with it; after 6 weeks the whole thing is very old for most Londoners.
I think he did well to arange coming out on a Sunday evening; perfect time for the out-of-towners to have a nice day out in the big city followed by an opportunity to see The Mystic and be part of the televisual ‘finale’. Super!
Houdini is my hero. I’ve been studying him and doing reports on him since I was in the seventh grade. As a result, I have heard the story you recounted above numerous times, and I have a problem with it.
I’ve never heard of Houdini claiming he could take a hit to the gut from a sledgehammer and walk away smiling. I’ve heard people say he could, but I’ve never seen a poster say
or, in the three biographies I’ve read, heard of Houdini himself making the claim.
No one disagrees that while in Montreal, students came into Houdini’s dressing room and he was BS-ing with them prior to his show that night. Furthermore, one of the students proceeded to, with no prior notification, assault Houdini, punching him repeatedly in the midsection.
My point is that nobody knows why the student lost his shit and started beating Houdini’s ass. Maybe Houdini did claim that he could take a shot to the abdomen, but that seems odd as their is nothing to suggest that prior to that time he ever made such a claim.
If I am wrong, please let me know, as I am turning in a report on Houdini tomorrow which pretty much makes the claim I lay out above.
Regards,
fbmf