Book Club People I have a friend who is a very die-hard, old school, book lover. She belongs to a book club and none of them like to use any technology. They only read hardback books, they don’t have smartphones, and they even refuse to read books written after world war II. […]
Hypnotic Stranger Parties
Door To Door Wizard I used to know this guy that was always looking for ways to make money. He only sometimes broke the law, but he was always skating the boundaries of moral and ethical norms. He loved to make money, but he absolutely hated to be part of any organization. […]
Nested Campfire Games
College Party When I was in college my friends and I like to go car camping quite a bit, mainly to sit around the campfire and play games and tell stories. One game in particular was really enjoyable, but it required that only about half of the people knew the rules. You’d have […]
Math Sex Magic
Hey, Don’t I Know You? I ran into an old friend at a party the other night, and I almost didn’t recognize him. I remembered him as being really intelligent, and really introverted. He was a nice guy if you talked to him long enough to get to know him, and he seemed […]
Long Game Occultist
License Scams Getting a license these days to sell something is difficult. A hundred years or so ago, if you wanted to sell something, you just sold it. An interesting problem from game theory is why it’s illegal to advertise cigarettes on TV. Why No Cigarette Ads? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug11Loop.mp4 Most people assume that […]
Post Hypnotic Destruction
Unconscious Competence No matter what you are learning, whether it be a skill or a subject or a piece of information, if you practice this enough it will get down to the level of unconscious competence. Sometimes we say learn something by heart. Sometimes we say learn something until it is second nature, but […]
Sociopaths And Sucker Punches
Japanese Prank Show There used to be a lot of very interesting Japanese prank game shows. Not so much anymore because I think a lot of people got sued. There was one there was kind of simple, kind of interesting. It started off with a young woman, a young attractive woman in this small […]
Hypnotic Sexual Brainwashing
So, I’m At This Party… I was at this party the other night. I don’t really remember why I went. Maybe a friend of a friend called me. I was just hanging out talking to whoever. I saw this woman across the room. She was mid to late 40s. When I saw her she […]
Bar Tricks And Puzzles
The Gambit Angle I have a friend who does bar tricks and bar magic and bar conversational gambits that he uses to successfully get a lot of women, but he doesn’t use them like most people use them. What most people do as they go up to their actual target and they try to […]
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 […]