What a busy weekend. It started Saturday morning as I drove north to Mifflinburg. I was to bowl in a Adult/Jr. doubles tournament with my buddy Joshua. It was a fun time, especially in the second game where yours truly rolled a 297! Yep, that's right, 297. For those not familiar with the game, that's 11 strikes in a row. Pretty damn good.
As I said a few weeks ago, I am now performing at Texas Roadhouse in Camp Hill. It's a fun place. Last week I met a lovely couple name Jean and Lee. I think I may have only done one trick for them and we just chatted for 5 or 10 minutes. They had seen David Copperfield the night before, (quite a step down huh) and were asking me all kinds of questions. They asked me to come and perform at a party in their home and, of course I accepted. That was this past Saturday. Lee had recently retired for the 2nd time and they had a few friends over for cocktails, food and yours truly. What a beautiful home and a fun time. There were a few kids there and while I've NEVER considered myself a children's entertainer, they were a lot of fun. So much fun, that I decided to give two of them, the chance to graffiti tag Lee's 22 foot ceiling. Many years ago, my favorite trick to perform was The Card on the Ceiling. This was years before I was performing much professionally. If you have never seen or heard of it, it's exactly what it sounds like. A playing card is signed, replaced in the deck and the whole deck wrapped with a rubber band. As the deck is thrown upward, one card sticks to the ceiling and of course, it is the signed card. Here's the fun part; it doesn't come down. I have had cards stay in place for years. I even have one in Hersheypark Arena, (that took quite a while). The performance included several of my favorite pieces of sleight of hand I've been performing for many years. Concluding with the cups and balls and the torn cigarette paper. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves throroughly.
Sunday morning, I was off to the movies. I've been waiting for the movie 21 quite a while. I had read the book Bringing Down the House many years ago. This is based on the true story about a group of MIT whiz-kids who go to Vegas and take down the casinos with a complex card counting system. The book was changed quite a bit. It was a little, "Hollywooded" up, but still a fantastic story. I can not recommend this movie enough.
Speaking of Vegas, I'm in total countdown mode for my trip in a few weeks. 26 days to go!
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blawhere are you playing/staying in Vegas? I've been 3 times and love it. Going for a conference? If you can, go see Penn & Teller...they were freakin' fantastic when we went 2 years ago.
At the Orleans as always. That's where the convention is and I'm normally locked in for 3 days. Our last night we get out on the strip and usually to a big show. Last year it was KA by Cirque du Soleil. I fell asleep. This year it will either be Lance or P&T. It's been years since I've seen them and they've made some big changes. My buddy I'm going with hasn't seen Lance yet, and that is really THE show to see for magicians.
Lee says now that he's retired, he wants to be Pepka's assistant & do gigs in Vegas, too! Honestly, I think he wants to learn enough to make me disappear, but the jury's still out on that one :-) The card's still in place, & we're going to go for the record "longest card on the ceiling." We'll be running hourly tours soon!
Thank you again for a memorable evening!
Jean & Lee
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