Apparently Q has some tools to help you with phase 2 – ‘The long wall home’. I believe he is calling it a ’shovel’.

It’s far darker if you read it that way though. Here are the things you need that kill you.

Perhaps we should encourage him to give up ‘magic’ for 60 years… that too would be a good stunt.

I’m not sure that hanging upside down for 60 hours constitutes either magic or endurance. Again there are people all over the place who have had to endure similar states. It does appear that he’s replicating the interrogation techniques of Guantanamo…

Take the Penn and Teller version of the cups and balls trick. They break the three main rules of performing magic – Repeat the trick, tell people how the trick is done… and perform the cup and balls trick with see-through cups – and yet still it’s a joy to watch as they do it so well that even with narration and clear plastic you still can’t quite work out how it’s done.

I hear that Blaine has recieved a rather poor reception for his latest suspension stunt. Claiming that he was going to remain hanging upside-down for 60 hours only to reveal that he meant ‘a total’ of 60 hours: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7635202.stm

I think we should tie David Blaine to a chair and punch him in the danglers for 5 days straight.

Not as a magic trick. I just don’t like that guy.

I can see it now too… I’ve had a thing for lightbulbs recently, in a platonic manner, I really like them as an object, the mixture of glass and metal and electricity… they’re like miniature skyscrapers.

Skullbulbs would be similarly ace.

Although adoration will work as a substitute, my methodone, so to speak.

Hehehe, sounds like a challenge to me – I bet you can’t die of loneliness faster than I can die from dehydration :-p