The Bio-Vlog

I’ve decided to enter the highly combative Desert Magic Seminar Competition in Las Vegas, hosted by the Vegas headliners, Siegfried and Roy. It’s a downright cutthroat rivalry among the world’s most notable and talented magicians. The odds-makers are certainly not favoring a card mechanic. Vernon…

Many of my friends are skeptical about this radical arrangement, and many think it is a really bad idea to marry this woman. Others are blunt, opining, “Janalee is flat out bad news. Get out now, while you still can!”  But, when it comes to…

Out of the blue, Janalee proposes marriage to me. She says in a bold manor, “I think we should get married, and I should get rid of my apartment and permanently move in with you.  She tells me, I promise to stop drinking.”  As I…

The longer she talks the better she seems to feel. As I hear her life unfold, I don’t feel that I have the right to judge her. I think, “There is enough culpability and guilt to go around. Besides, I know how it feels to…

“No family member wanted to take me in. She mumbles on with an overt tone of anger, “When I was thirteen, a pimp gave me some strong drugs that knocked me out. He raped me over and over again. Each time I regained consciousness he…

Janalee looks over at me and blurts, not really a question, but more of a statement, “Who are you? Are you some kind of rescuing angel?” She turns away. I can tell that she has closed her eyes as she continues to mumble. She speaks…

The next day Janalee has, not surprisingly, a wicked hangover. She slowly works her way to the deck at the back of my home, and finds a comfortable place on the deck with the sun shining down where she lays down to convalesce. As she…

Janalee has a few more drinks and watches a few more tricks. Then she shocks me when she boldly says, “Richard, is your place close by?” Wondering what she’s thinking, hesitantly, I reply, “Not too far.” She says, “Ready to get out of here?”  This…

I finished my shows, ate a giant lobster and, I’m sitting in the dimly lit bar dealing seconds to myself, getting ready to call Jim Blowers to come pick me up.  I hear a voice. “What are you doing?” a woman asks with a slight…

“Seated around my table are Gaming Regulator Bruce Samboy, and with us again are Steve Forte, Russell Cedarburg, and Jim Blowers. Gents, Richard’s antics for the dangerous and gross stretch the imagination, what do you think Richard fears, if anything?” “Jon, considering his life as…