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Tobias! on September 13th, 2011

.. from Vaudeville at the Baker, the Stupidest Thing I Have Ever Done On Stage… Sometimes I feel almost ashamed. Sometimes.

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Tobias! on August 5th, 2011

What have I been up to? Some of this…

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Tobias! on June 21st, 2011

It’s official, I’m in Texas.     This July 1, I’ll be at the Blue Star Arts Complex in San Antonio on South Alamo Street, doing the Street Show two or three times through the evening thanks to the courtesy of the Overtime Theatre – come on down, have a refreshing beverage at the Blue [...]

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Tobias! on June 6th, 2011

“… you can amaze people once or twice, but if you can make them laugh you can entertain them forever.” Jeff Dunham, All By My Selves I like to call myself a “hack magician”. “Hack” in this case is a bit of self-deprecating humor, implying that I know that I’m not the greatest magician in [...]

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Tobias! on May 26th, 2011

A friend of mine, Steven Moore (of the now famous Knight of the Living Dead Kindle book!) and I were talking about what it’s like doing more than one “job”, that is, being a magician and doing something as a “day job”. Steven has had a few full time magicians give him grief about not [...]

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Tobias! on May 10th, 2011

Okay I think we’re back! The weekend before last I was honored to come out to the Tulare County Renaissance Faire for what will likely be my Last Huzzah in California for a while – a good time was had by all and we banded together to help some of our brethren who have fallen [...]

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Tobias! on April 14th, 2011

Wow – I’m sorry it’s been a while! Let’s start with the most important stuff – I moved! Yep, your humble hack magician is now a resident of San Antonio, Texas! We packed up everything and moved out here, arriving a little over a week ago from right this moment. One of the issues with [...]

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Tobias! on January 31st, 2011

Keep Calm-o-matic poster generation. Tobias’ Credo, if you haven’t worked it out by now.

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Tobias! on July 26th, 2010

The past two weekends have been pretty complicated. I spent the weekend prior to this last one out at Canterbury Faire . This is a relatively new event – a mere two years old – but it’s showing signs of building nicely as a regional RenFaire out in the Salem, Oregon area.  I had the [...]

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Tobias! on June 9th, 2010

I made, as you know, a scouting run to the Rose Festival’s Waterfront Village a week ago last Sunday to see what things looked like regarding the stages upon which I would be performing (convoluted sentence structure GO!).  One of the things I had been told was that the stages were in fact covered. I [...]

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