A MAGICIAN'S BLOG 

"Hi, so we had a couple quick questions. We've never done this before, and my boss saw another magician at a company retreat and was really blown away." That is almost word for word how these calls start. Somebody gets handed the holiday party, usually someone in HR or an office assistant who was never hired to be an event planner but is now planning an event. And here is the part most of them do not know. When you say "we want a magician," you are not describing one thing. Y

Pricing is the question I get asked more than anything else, and I completely understand why. You have a budget, it has to cover the venue, the catering, the DJ and the entertainment, and you need to know early whether this is even in the realm of possibility. So here is the honest answer, including the part where I explain why there is no number on my website. A full room show. Group size is what decides staging, sound and price. Why a corporate magician in San Francisco wil

A volunteer’s stunned reaction during Mind & Magic in the Carriage House at the Winchester Mystery House In the room, a woman insists she has been making every choice freely. Her own decisions, her own free will, fully in control. Then I show her that every one of those choices was quietly influenced before she ever made them. The gasps come first. Then the nervous laughter, because nobody quite knows how to say out loud what they just felt. It is one of those moments you hav