The Intelligence Bubble Cracks
The other day, I was wondering a couple of things about entertainment irritant David Blaine and his latest "look-at-me, look-at-me" stunt. First I thought, doesn't this man have anything else to do. I mean, get a life already and stop hanging around in public places locked up in some sealed container. I'm as tolerant of fetishes as the next guy, but this clown's wish to be alternately worshipped/villified by strangers is getting a bit out of hand.
My second musing was much simpler, and one I'm shocked he or someone around him hadn't considered. I thought, "Isn't he going to shrivel up like a prune?" I mean, half-an-hour in the swimming pool my fingers look like raisins. This morning I read that Blaine's hands are severely shriveling and peeling, and that he "wasn't prepared for the hands." Duh! Okay, he's finally spent enough time in isolation to do permanent cognitive damage. Next up, a straitjacket and a padded room, no doubt made of plexiglass and bubble-wrap and displayed in the middle of a busy urban intersection.
Even worse than Blaine, however, are his fawning fans. For example:
"Pretty amazing, just amazing," said Firefighter Pete Zaccariello, 21, of Engine 23, on W. 58th St. "I'm not brave enough to do something like that - he's risking his life for our entertainment."
He's risking his life for our entertainment? This from a man who put himself in harms way saving people from burning buildings? Pete thinks he's not brave enough to float in a water bubble? It's sad to see a real hero, a man who would truly risk his life in a fiery inferno, a situation from which there is no easy escape, compare himself to an attention-starved narcissist. I think there should be an emergency warning and a fire ax on Blaine's glass: "In case of emergency, smash ego bubble."
My second musing was much simpler, and one I'm shocked he or someone around him hadn't considered. I thought, "Isn't he going to shrivel up like a prune?" I mean, half-an-hour in the swimming pool my fingers look like raisins. This morning I read that Blaine's hands are severely shriveling and peeling, and that he "wasn't prepared for the hands." Duh! Okay, he's finally spent enough time in isolation to do permanent cognitive damage. Next up, a straitjacket and a padded room, no doubt made of plexiglass and bubble-wrap and displayed in the middle of a busy urban intersection.
Even worse than Blaine, however, are his fawning fans. For example:
"Pretty amazing, just amazing," said Firefighter Pete Zaccariello, 21, of Engine 23, on W. 58th St. "I'm not brave enough to do something like that - he's risking his life for our entertainment."
He's risking his life for our entertainment? This from a man who put himself in harms way saving people from burning buildings? Pete thinks he's not brave enough to float in a water bubble? It's sad to see a real hero, a man who would truly risk his life in a fiery inferno, a situation from which there is no easy escape, compare himself to an attention-starved narcissist. I think there should be an emergency warning and a fire ax on Blaine's glass: "In case of emergency, smash ego bubble."
posted by spongy-poo at 5:34 AM
1 Comments:
Hahahaha!! That man is a complete waste of time. I agree, he has deffinetly caused some kind of permanent damage along the line, to keep up with this.
As for his adoring fans, PLEASE! I agree, a true hero like a firefighter has no business comparing himself to that idiot...
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