DAVID BLAINE: WORST PERSON

"Illusionist" David Blaine has pulled another weak stunt. Apparently, he used to do magic. He could take the head off of a chicken and put it back on. He had some sweet card tricks. And now, he has a publicist, financial backing, and terrible decision making skills.

First, his attempt to hang upside-down for sixty hours straight is mildly intriguing at best. The fact that he was "required" to get down every so often for "medical checks" entirely defeats the purpose of even trying. The whole attraction of these stunts is that he might die. So monitoring him to ensure that won't happen, while also getting him out of his position, completely ruins what was already a pretty lame stunt. How about this for a stunt: David Blaine will never be seen again, ever. That's a stunt I can get behind.

Then, after the weakest "magic" the world has ever seen, he was set to attempt his "dive of death." This sounded more interesting. There was a real chance he could hit the pavement, which people want to see. There was also a real chance for him to use some sort of masterful trickery to regain some of his illusionist mystique. And what happened? He jumped off some scaffolding wearing a harness connected to a wire. Dive of death, indeed. It wasn't even a well-concealed wire. The crowd booed, as they should have. Then the wire lifted Blaine off into the sky, hopefully to begin his next stunt: Never being seen again.