A MAGICIAN'S BLOG 

The question I get more than almost any other, usually from someone planning their first company party, is some version of this. What if people don't want to participate? It is a fair worry. You are spending real money on entertainment, and the nightmare version in your head is a room of forty adults being made to do something they do not want to do. So let me tell you what I am actually looking for when I work your room, because it is close to the opposite of what people exp

"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

A guest reacts in astonishment as close-up magic happens in her hands during a private backyard birthday party, with another guest leaning in wide-eyed. Magic isn’t just for kids’ parties. In fact, when I perform at birthday parties, it’s typically exclusively adult parties. That was the case when I recently helped a couple celebrate a milestone birthday with an extravagant, lavish backyard party. Surrounded by sixty of their closest friends and family, this couple went all o

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