PRESHOW

Back in the early 1980 ’ s I move to Houston , TX . Immediately I started to work as a close up mentalist at a very trendy nightclub called Confetti ’ s .

Within two months I was moved up to entertainment manager . It was my job to hire entertainment for the club . I had to hire everything from dancers to gorillas on roller skates . Every hour , something had to be happening . One night I had a guy come in and build a box in the middle of the club , something for people just to wonder about . Another night I hired a marching band to walk through the club and walk out . One night I even managed to have a giraffe walk through the club . Crazy times . I even hired a very bad juggler ; I thought it was so funny that he kept dropping the pins on his head . Yes , I got him cheap , and yes he had to keep taking Tylenol , but it was brilliant . Now that juggler is one of the top jugglers in the U . S . During this time I met many young and even old upcoming magicians , mentalists and other entertainers , some are still working today and some have become top headliners , others just passed through our world on their journey elsewhere . One of these acts , who will remain nameless , had just spent an entire check on a top-of-the-line card sword . His idea was to use it in his stage show , he would have a spectator just think of any card and a deck of cards would be thrown into the air and the sword would be stabbed into the flying cards , the chosen thought-ofcard appearing on the end of the sword . My employee and good friend was very disappointed after his first few tries . Seemed that each time he tried it , the spectator would name the wrong card . What was he doing wrong ?