Monday, September 15, 2003
Blaine Crazy
A couple of months back, I had posted an article about the difference between Canadians and Americans. Today, I found a story in the New York Times about the British reaction to magician David Blaine's latest stunt -- being suspended over the Thames without food -- which perhaps illustrates the difference between the yanks and the brits, at least vis-a-vis levels of cynicism. I certainly dont see whats magical about Blaine's gig and I tend to agree with the British on this one. Talk about starving for publicity!!
In The Guardian, the columnist Catherine Bennett encouraged Londoners to join in "an exhilarating act of public ridicule" by taunting Mr. Blaine with food. "Even a blob of oily ice cream," she wrote, "tastes exquisite when consumed in the suspended company of the preposterous, faux-starving Blaine."
In The Guardian, the columnist Catherine Bennett encouraged Londoners to join in "an exhilarating act of public ridicule" by taunting Mr. Blaine with food. "Even a blob of oily ice cream," she wrote, "tastes exquisite when consumed in the suspended company of the preposterous, faux-starving Blaine."
