So much so that I slept with a night light on until I was about 11. I was deathly afraid of the dark as a child. I wasn't allowed to date or talk to boys in middle school let alone high school.ġ0.
#13 steps to mentalism barnes and noble tv#
I grew up without cable and with three TV channels and my parents said no TV on school nights.ĩ. As a kid I had a German Shepherd Collie named Snapper, a goldfish named Goldie, and two Hermit crabs named Hermie and Pretty Nice.Ĩ.
I was mediocre at both sports but showed a ton of spirit.ħ. When winter came I was a part of a local figure skating club. I swam summer club as a kid and my event was the 50 meter butterfly. I then tried to become a platform diver and while I wasn't afraid of heights I sucked at entering head first. I was a gymnast as a kid and was even on a high level track before I got injured. It makes me even more angry when they use it to take rights and freedoms away from others.ĥ. While I am liberal now, I understand it incredibly and am annoyed when people put in words and events that aren't actually there. Growing up my dad made sure we knew The Bible. I kind of cheated, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was my bedtime story.Ĥ. My best subject in 4th grade was history and I won the class award, and also won the award for most books read several years in a row. When I was 9 I had a near death experience and survived a rip tide.ģ. I am also proficient with hand and rod puppets. As a kid I became a ventriloquist, but was able to study Japanese wooden puppetry in college as well as Balinese shadow puppets. And when I saw my window that night, I saw the stars to my dreams instead of a bottom where I wanted to jump and escape.ġ. Note, I left feeling awesome and loving comedy. That under all my insecurity, maybe I could make this a career after all. Maybe I didn't win the cash money, but I made people happy that day.
The World Famous BOB was so cool and sometimes I sweat she is a totum animal of mine. Bob and Joe Bev rocked it as Abbot and Costello. I didn't win, but I did a good clean set. And also, so often do we get deep into our depression of not getting what we want because the business isn't fair that we forget the root word to funny is FUN. So often in NYC comedy becomes about being angry and deep that we forget it's about making people laugh. There was something so wonderful about being on the boardwalk entertaining people of all ages. When we did, we did our clean routine we had put together on the spot. It felt like the longest time before we got onstage. For so long May Wilson and I had done the late spots at the clubs. He was one true friend as I sweated under my arm pits. Bob Greenberg was so supportive and told me I could do it. So I literally had to rewrite my act on the spot. FUUUUUCCCCKKKK!!!!Įxcept I couldn't say FUUUCCCCCCKKKKK!!!!! It was a long way away from where I lived and I almost didn't go. Then I applied to do The Coney Island Talent Show. More like uninspired and depressed like a Smith's song. I wanted to jump out my window and didn't know why. Prior to this picture being taken, I felt rather stunted and depressed. I hadn't because it had all become about the wrong thing.
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I had because I wanted to be on TV and be recognized, plus the world knew about my puppet babies. I was spotted on the street by fans and thought I had arrived.