Live Performance I’ve a friend who has been making music for several years, about 10 or 15 years, as long as I’ve known him. He’s only recently started to perform live and I wondered why before he never before live. The music he made was really really good, but he seemed to be content just […]
Fear Of Abandonment
Reunion Party I went to a reunion recently. It was a reunion with people that I hadn’t seen in a few decades and because I’m from the generation X, we grew up, we were raised in an environment with no Internet and no social media. Generation X people are a lot less likely to […]
Homeless Industrial Complex
Ex Non Girlfriend A couple of years ago there was this girl that I was really interested in. She went to my church and so I was trying to do anything I could to get together with her. She invited me to come with her one evening to help feed the homeless at a […]
The Transitionist
Woman From My Building There’s a woman who lives near my apartment. She lives in the same building, she parks kind of close to where I park and sometimes when we’re leaving we see each other. Sometimes when we’re coming back we see each other. She seems friendly. We each usually nod to each […]
Real Magic
Summer School I have a friend who volunteers at a local community center. She asked me if I would help her teach some kids summer school. Some magic tricks during summer school. It took me about 10 minutes of research to realize that if I tried to teach these kids any kind of sleight-of-hand […]
Hidden Box Of Pain
3D Vision The other day I was watching this really cool documentary on how our eyeballs and our brains work together to create this illusion of depth perception. I used to think that it was because only because we had two eyeballs kind of like a 3-D movie where you put on these glasses […]
Three Essential Truths
Flea Market Trip The other day I decided to go down to the local flea market. I had a few hours I wanted to kill and I like to go wandering around. Sometimes you find some good deals on pieces of furniture and other kitchen appliance equipment. I was wandering around and I saw […]
Mind Illusions
Young Magician I have a neighbor and her son is in fifth grade. Lately he’s been practicing these card tricks, these magic tricks, and he’s getting pretty good. He’s got a very good little magician’s pattern going on. So far most of the tricks he’s been doing are called self-working card tricks. These are […]
Custom Made Life
Small Part Needed The other day I was in my house trying to build this structure. I was putting the structure together from smaller parts that weren’t really made to be put together this way, but I knew I was going to be a perfect structure. The only problem was I needed this one […]
Re-Calibrated Sexual Energy
Car Maintenance A couple of weeks ago I had to take my car in to get some scheduled maintenance done. I think it was a 60,000 mile maintenance and when I got it to the shop the guy was looking at the car. He had hooked up to his machines and he said there were […]