Any loyal followers out there (both of you) . . . I thought you’d be interested in my latest project. The details can be found here: Cure Diabetes With Meat. I’m making myself a guinea pig for The Atkins Diet. I’m hoping to inspire others, and I’m sort of hoping for a little controversy as well. I think it’ll get people talking and learning the truth about The Atkins Diet. There are many misconceptions. Anyway, check out the link to the site and let me know what you think. It will be a very open and honest and personal blog . . . Meet The Real Me.
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On September 11, 2001, my mother turned 50 years old, our nation was attacked, and I was a college student taking a writing class. Our final project for the class changed on September 11. We, students, were given the assignment to write about our feelings of the events of that day. What follows is my assignment for that class exactly as it was written almost 8 years ago. I’m publishing it today on the 8th anniversary of that tragic event. The original title of the essay is . . . Read the rest of this entry »
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I’ve been reading Sherlock Holmes (sadly for the first time ever in my life). Of course, I’ve seen the old British episodes on TV, and everyone knows who Sherlock Holmes is and what he’s all about. Plus I love watching House M.D. which is basically a medical version of Holmes. Anyhoo, my point is that I’m really diggin’ reading and getting into the brain of dear Dr. Watson’s strange companion. I love the way his mind works. So just in case there’s another one of you out there (besides myself) who hasn’t read Sherlock Holmes (4 novels and 56 short stories), get with the program and start reading.
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True astonishment is a thing of beauty when it is properly captured. Dean Dill is one man who has captured it. Mr. Dill’s coin magic is clean, simple, slow, deliberate and down-right majestic. As silly as this may sound, I am moved to tears often by the beauty and the purity of truly talented people. I mean, who wasn’t moved to tears by Bianca Ryan? or what about Paul Potts?
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Suddenly, Max was aware of his surroundings; he was in a hospital. The last thing he could remember was a total stranger telling him that he didn’t look well. Slowly he began to remember that more than one person had told him that he didn’t look well. In fact, five total strangers, within one hour, had told him that he didn’t look well. After the fifth person, everything was a blur.
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For you magi, be warned this is the personal (non-magician) side of me. Every week on Tuesday – or in the case of this week, Thursday – night, I have a sort of “date night” with one of my kids – or in the case of tonight, two of my kids.
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Have you ever wondered what Nathan Kranzo looks like? Me too? I’ve heard the name a time or two, but that’s about it. Well if you are curious what he looks like, Do Not Purchase his magic effect entitled Pimpin’. By the end of this 20 minute low-quality production, you’ll still be wondering. Oh, you’ll have the bottom half of the slogan on his T-Shirt memorized, and you’ll even have a solid memory of what his hands look like, but you NEVER see his face. It would appear that Mr. Kranzo (if that really was him) was the cameraman, editor, etc. The camera angle never changed.
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I was born and raised in the California Bay Area. I’ve also spent quite a few years in the New England Area back east. I have traveled to many other places during my years in the Navy. I’ve driven in San Francisco during rush hour. I’ve driven in New York City, Chicago, Orlando, and New Jersey. I’ve even driven in St Croix, which is full of Americans driving on the “wrong” side of the road. Yet In all of my traveling and driving, I’ve never seen anyone worse, anyone crazier, or anyone more dangerous than a native Utahan at the wheel of an automobile.
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The most traumatic experience of my childhood is also the silliest. I was about 8 years old when I walked out of the bathroom, donning only my superman underoos and a towel-cape pinned around my neck. My mission was to fly over the foot rail of my bed. In order to get momentum, I jumped up and down on my bed until the time was right.
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If it weren’t for kids have you ever thought,
There wouldn’t be no Santa Claus,
Or look what the stork just brought
Thank God for kids.
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