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Table Talk 10
“Sitting together at an upper-class night club is playboy Jim Flect, and Dr. Richard Drake. I hear you both have adventures of a different sort. If you would, please share them.”“Yeah” Jon,” Fleck says, “Rick and I went for a walk on a hiking trail…
Read MoreArmando Lucero: BioVlog 84 of 384
Mime-Magician, Armando Lucero has joined the Lamb’s Players troupe. As we first meet, our interaction is initially tentative and non-committal. This is pretty much par for the course for me, since I try to keep a low profile because most of what I do is…
Read MoreDiverse Exercises: BioVlog 83 of 384
I expand my mind-control experiments by creating diverse exercises to force my brain to separate the movement of one hand from the other, so they can work independently of each other. For example, I would draw an imaginary four pointed square in the air with…
Read MoreOpposite Directions: BioVlog 82 of 384
I am hanging out with bartender Ed Houlihan, who says with an undertone of slyness, “I knew a Chicago magician who could roll two coins in opposite directions across the fingers of one hand.” I ask excitedly, “Wow that sounds great! How’d he do it?”…
Read MoreTapping Into the Neural Network: BioVlog 81 of 384
First, I pick up a coin and determine which hand feels more comfortable doing the roll, and it is my right hand. But, because I want to do it with both hands, I place the half-dollar in the opposite left hand and begin the maneuver…
Read MoreHoulihan and the Kid: BioVlog 80 of 384
I like to hang out at a club in my home town, El Cajon, where Eddie Houlihan is the bartender and performs close up magic nightly. (Eddie has even performed at the world famous Hollywood Magic Castle.) I sit at his bar with a free…
Read MorePassive Tomfoolery: BioVlog 79 of 384
We interact as an engaged couple, and eventually, inexorably and impulsively, we canter to our wedding ceremony in May of 1974. She joins the Lamb’s Players. As performers in a nonprofit theater company, we are what people call starving artists, and we are dirt poor.…
Read MoreMarrying Mary: BioVlog 78 of 384
Weight training, performing and card play all have their satisfactions but there is still one thing missing, and that is a girl. Every guy needs a girl. One of my high school friends is Mary Cobbs. Mary has long, soft, copper-colored hair and brown eyes.…
Read MoreCaught From Behind: BioVlog 77 of 384
Word gets back to Jim Blowers that the woman standing behind me noticed when I uncut the deck. Is that true?” Jim asks me. “Were you cheating?” “No,” I lie. I don’t think Jim believes me, but I don’t care. In my mind it’s okay…
Read MoreRiskiest Move: BioVlog 76 of 384
As I play, I’m thinking, “I hate drug dealers!” From a few hours of their marijuana smoking and (likely using other drugs) I notice how loosely the play is from the stoned, stupid-sounding gamblers, and I’m easily able to gather a pair or trips and…
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