A good friend, and fellow Colorado magician Danny Archer was just profiled in the Society of American Magician’s magazine.
Danny is a good magician; and he has also invented many tricks for sale to other professional magicians. Besides that… he’s a good guy.
Congrats, Danny.
(Another cool connection: Colorado magician Lindsey Smith wrote the article about Danny. Lindsey [...]

My first job as a professional magician was at the Colorado Renaissance Festival, where I was booked (at a whopping $30/day!) as Young Master Bardford, Magician of the Rhelm. It was an awesome, educational, difficult, sometimes scary, and always memorable job.
One of the best parts was watching and learning from a very talented and experienced [...]

I have learned every one of Billy McComb’s tricks. Ok… NOBODY has learned them all… Billy seemed to know everything about magic, magicians, and entertaing.
One of the best parts of my career was working the Magic Castle in Los Angeles, California. I did one show with Billy in the audience, and made a point of [...]

I’m proud of my background as a magician. Although I don’t use my magic skills now as much as I used to, I love being a magician, and I’m proud of being part of a huge history American performing arts… the history of magic.

One of the all time greats was a guy that non-magicians [...]

Hey Kid! Get out of the street!

I just found this photo of me (aged 16 or so) doing magic on the streets of Denver, Colorado for tips. (Yup… it is weird to happen upon a photo of yourself; I found this in a Denver website.) I did a ton of [...]

I just got back from speaking to a group of Salt Lake City Utah speakers at the National Speakers Association — Utah chapter.
Magician and speaker Brad Barton and I got into an interesting conversation, and I wanted to ask your opinion.
We were discussing whether or not the “average person” really wants to see a magician, [...]

This is a cool article about the growth of magician/performer skills. This guy is right on! You could change the word “magician” to speaker and it would be just ast true.
Look at this excerpt:

Glenn Bishop “Bish The Magish”: Magic’s Problems?
Being BAD is not a problem because you only get good by being BAD [...]

From ABC NEWS:

ABC News: Simon Cowell Takes His “American Idol” Search to Vegas
Wannabe singing stars on “American Idol” have been known to cringe whenever judge Simon Cowell speaks. Would-be magicians and other Las Vegas-style entertainers could soon become just as nervous if the acid-tongued Cowell finds a judge as outspoken as himself for a new [...]

Check out this funny definition of a bad magician:
Abracadabbler
An amateur magician.
We were expecting to get a professional conjurer, but what we got was a mere abracadabbler.
Thanks to:
Witwords featuring Mark My Words, Fictionary of Witty Words and more!
Check out my work as a comedian magician here.

I just found this photo! A few years ago I was visiting China with my wife and ended up doing some simple coin tricks to some folks in a pretty small village.
Who was most amazed? Me! I had forgotten how powerful and fun magic tricks can be; it was an [...]