David "Bland": Street Magician

So I was watching a rerun of a David Blaine special when he was encased in ice for 2.5 days. It just reminded me of how much I enjoyed his first special and how the subsequent ones sucked. Previous stunts saw Blaine standing on a small platform atop a 100-foot-high pillar for 35 hours in midtown Manhattan, and in 2003, he dangled in a plastic cubicle near the River Thames in London for 44 days with only small amounts of water for nourishment. For his next "trick", David Blaine plans to perform a high wire act a la circus performers. This high wire act isn't the only thing Blaine has in common with P.T. Barnum. "A sucker is born every minute." What made him exciting was his magic tricks, not these lame parlor tricks he's been doing ever since his "Street Magic" special. I'd wish he'd get back to making fans go "Wow!" instead of "Yawn."