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Jesus... If you want to talk directly to the camera like that again, download Audacity (it's free) and get a $30 computer peripheral mic from Office Depot. A Logitech model will be adequate if you can find one. You'll spend a few extra minutes with the editing syncing the sound up, but you...

Just FYI, learning from tutorials on YouTube is a bit like trying to learn how to write good stories by reading Twilight. Anyway, True Astonishments runs the gamut from simple to more advanced material. Personally speaking, I would keep it and just come back to it over the long term while...

Two questions. 1. What the hell kind of microphone were you using? 2. What software are you using to edit this? I clicked it off after the first minute because the audio was so jarring. I nearly blew my speakers out the first time the music came on, and I decided I didn't want to deal with...

I wouldn't go with any of the recommendations here. My first choice would be Bob Cassidy's The Real Work of Cold Reading and follow that with Herb Dewey's Red Hot Cold Reading. Rowland's book is far too cynical and some of his advice (such as not learning any psychic "sciences" like...

And here I thought I'd once again have to stand alone. Feh! I give it a week.

Funny story I'm telling more for my own amusement than anything else. Go to Amazon dot com and search for a book titled Paint It Black by Voltaire (the funny Goth dude, not the French author). Within is a guide to turning a regular journal into an ancient, spooky tome. He made one to gather...

There's something seriously wrong with the fact that the alcoholic Slovak is the least defeatist person in the room. Also I'd like to note that I have my doubts that Theory 11 is the only place this story is circulating. I know it may come as a shock to some, but there are other forums for...

Maybe not, but would it kill any of you to show some real solidarity for once? Just on general principle? I know as magicians we all hate each other's guts, but I'd hope just for once we could all agree not to support this year's FISM if the ones responsible are going to turn a blind eye to...

I'm on the side of the Chinese magicians here. While I'm not intimidated by exposure anymore, I do believe that the magic community needs to stop talking about our vaunted solidarity and actually prove it. FISM is being sponsored by an organization that obviously doesn't respect what we do...

Thus far, all I can say is that setting up a panel is the easiest way in. A panel can be pretty much about anything pertinent to the subject of the convention, even if the connection is a little obtuse. I'm meeting with my friend hopefully in the next couple of days to see how open the con...

There's one other venue I'd like to pitch in. Conventions. It's not worked as often as some others, but can still be fruitful. I'm actually working on this myself. I have a friend who works with a number of organizers who is trying to get me booked for appearances and shows at small sci-fi...

(reaches for the bottle of valium and a bottle of Cien Anos)

You could always add some bonus material and photos to the PDF and sell it on Lybrary.com for about 20 bucks a pop.

What's the difference between cold calling and the 9-5 grind? Cold calling only crushes your soul in the short term.

Small quibble, but I have yet to meet a successful restaurant worker who charges less than $60/hour.

And thus you immediately render your entire opinion invalid. If you have to resort to that rhetorical device that quickly, you have no argument, you have no point, and you have no business telling anyone what is good or bad in hypnotism. To me, Zap is just another cheap cash-in pandering to...

The phone number joke isn't funny. Hasn't been for along time. The number of people who can make it even slightly amusing number in single digits. And this is going to come as a serious shock to many of you, but women love sex just as much as men do, if not more. They just don't like...

The numbers game is the part about cold calling that makes me so ambivalent about the concept. It works, and I'll do it when I have to (student loan payments make that inevitable), but every time I have to do it I'm just so damn happy when it's over.

Then you've never seen someone with real class. Granted, it sure as hell ain't me, but you get the point.

Docc Hilford. To my knowledge, he only offers it during lecture tours. Again, just something I wanted to ask for my own curiosity. I don't want to go into too much detail in public except to say that he offers some very interesting ideas on working the clubs, lounges, and restaurants.