Derren Brown

Mr Brown is like a little golden nugget I find on the floor and put in my pocket to carry around all day. He is adorable. The fact that he can read your mind and do other entertaining mental tricks has nothing to do with why I find him so appealing. All my friends have assumed that in terms of men, my field of vision is completely limited to black ones. Well, as it happens, I also have a thing for extremely smart, confident men who are very good at what they do. And have a great passion for it. I have a similar obsession with Gordon Ramsey; He isn't exactly what I'd call physically attractive (to me), but he's so passionate about cooking (and I don't even care much about cooking), and is very much 'a man's man'. This I find very attractive. Derren Brown isn't really a 'man's man', but still has the same effect. It may also partly be because he's always wearing a suit. I love men in suits. And if it's a black man in a suit then... yeah... watch out.

Back to Mr Brown: Other than the way he carries himself and his general attitude towards his work, I am also very impressed with what he actually does. He once convinced a group of business people to commit armed robbery without them even knowing. Fascinating. You wouldn't think that planting different seeminlgy unrelated ideas or triggers in someones head would lead them to do such a thing. Especially if it had been disguised as a string of excercises meant to build a more confident manager or executive or whatever the hell these buisiness people were. Anyway, at the end of this particular show, Mr Brown got each buisiness person to meet him at separate times, in the same place. It was set up so a van that was meant to be picking up money from the bank of England was parked on the exact street they had to walk down to meet him. It was timed so the (sorry I don't know the proper name) money-carrying guy would be putting a two huge secure cases of money into the van as the buisness person came around the corner. Three out of the four people got out their toy gun (given to them at the fake seminar Derren had held days before as a tool for building confidence - complete bullshit, of course), told the man to get on the ground, and made off with the money. The last person walked past the van, eyeing it in temptation. It was obvious he really wanted to steal the money, but didn't have a guts. Quite amazing. I salute Derren Brown [as I carry him around in my pocket].