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Stupid Clown Noses

I’m a big fan of “situational” magic. Maybe a better word for it is “incidental” magic. For example, you’re hanging out with your friends, and one of them points out that your shoe is untied. So rather than bending over to tie your show, you just shake your foot a …

Using Social Media to Get Gigs

Facebook, Twitter, MySpace (?), Google Plus, Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn . . . on and on and on . . . What are they for? What do they mean? And how do you use them. First, let me start by saying, I’m not a cat person. But the graphic below from …

Grab a Root and Branch Out

The entire purpose of this sentence is to make absolutely clear the purpose of this sentence. Meaning? I have no idea. But it sounds philosophical; I love self-referential references, and it comes from a great book, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern by Douglas R. Hofstadter. …