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The premier mentalism convention, Mindvention, is closer than a stinky guy on
a bus, and more exciting than being the stinky guy and sitting next to someone
like you.

Robert Allen and Danny Archer reminds us — as if we needed a reminder — the
convention will take place November 13th through 15th (we’re flying in Saturday
the 12th and leaving the 16th) at the local’s favorite, Palace Station Hotel
& Casino.

That’s in Las Vegas.

For more information on this exciting convention featuring Banachek and
Barrie Richardson. We think the world of Barrie
Richardson’s Theater of the Mind .

Banachek is one of the few people about whom we worry — not in a
overly-paranoid way — but just a little more than Kreskin and a little less
than most carnival dunk-tank clowns.

He may just want us to believe he is pretending to be a psychic but maybe he
really is and the doctors in Indiana were right. We fear sometimes he can really
read our thoughts.

With Kreskin, we didn’t worry so much about mind-reading. We figured if he
could, he was too old and near-sighted to do anything about it. Plus he always
wore suits about three sizes too small so we could run up a flight of stairs and
he’d be half-naked in a freshly torn, brown suit.

Carny dunk-tank clowns probably can read our minds but even if they couldn’t,
the still have to know how much we loathe them and their cigarette/bourbon
intoned taunts attacking our manhood or Mother’s fidelity to Father, the U.S.
Army, or even our species.

It doesn’t matter what he thinks we think of him.
He’s right and if it costs us $24.50 in bacteria-laden baseballs, we’re going to
hit the target and sink “Bozo” right in the midst of his attack on our date’s
facial hair.

“Guess you couldn’t predict that, huh?!”

Anyway, Banachek wrote a ton of stuff but one of his best is 2002 Psychophysiological
Thought Reading: Muscle Reading and the Ideometer Response Revealed . It’s really a two-fer. You get his work plus How to Read
People’s Minds by H.J. Burlingame.

We like Banachek and Barrie
Richardson.

So we’ll be there hanging on their every word, buying them…

One of the Best Books

The premier mentalism convention, Mindvention, is closer than a stinky guy on
a bus, and more exciting than being the stinky guy and sitting next to someone
like you.

That’s in Las Vegas.

For more information on this exciting convention featuring Banachek and
Barrie Richardson. We think the world of Barrie
Richardson’s Theater of the Mind .

Banachek is one of the few people about whom we worry — not in a
overly-paranoid way — but just a little more than Kreskin and a little less
than most carnival dunk-tank clowns.

He may just want us to believe he is pretending to be a psychic but maybe he
really is and the doctors in Indiana were right. We fear sometimes he can really
read our thoughts.

“Guess you couldn’t predict that, huh?!”

We like Banachek and Barrie
Richardson.

So we’ll be there hanging on their every word, buying them drinks to get them
to like us, even if it is only because they are nearly-blind from
alcohol-poisoning. At least we can tell the world, that for one brief,
shuttering moment, we were responsible for the well-being of great
mentalists.

We tried this same technique with Billy McComb at one of the Las Vegas World
Seminars and nearly went bankrupt. He’s a little guy but on the inside he is
just one, big, regenerating liver.

We’re not that crazy about the way the website is designed but that’s okay.
We’re not heading to Vegas to learn about the website.

We’re heading to learn about mental things.

That’s why our pants will be half-way down our legs from the weight of the
pockets full of our mentalism stuff: mini-writers, nail-writers,
knuckle-writers, ear wax to ectoplasm solution, clip-boards, billets, slates
(locking and unlocking), stiff rope, not so stiff rope, rope that looks stiff
but proves to be not so stiff once its used, blindfolds, and bread dough
(leavened and unleavened – in case we do our blindfold drive on the Sabbath),
and our latest invention, The Quinlan S0-Sure Deck.

We are very proud of our new invention, it is the first time you can use a
one-way deck and be absolutely sure the card selected is the one you want to
force because each card is marked. They can riffle the index (not in Indiana or
Kentucky) and they won’t see a thing because the marks are all the same.

It’s
genius, we know. You can let the spectators inspect the deck for hours and
they’ll never suspect it’s a marked deck (but don’t let them look at the faces).

Anyway, check out the mindvention.com site. (http://www.mindvention.com).

We’re looking forward to emptying our pockets and inner-ear canals with you.