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This Side of the Impossible at the FringeNYC Aug 14-30

This Side of the Impossible at the FringeNYC Aug 14-30

I don’t just post when I am performing in a theater festival. I have been traveling extensively, and can imagine how poor the internet reception is deep in Himalayas.

I am honored to be a part of the FringeNYC international Theater Festival. I shall be performing at Under St. Marks, 94 St. Marks Place.

5 shows only. For tickets, click on the date you wish to attend.

Sat. Aug 15th @ 7pm Tues Aug 18th 3:30pm, Thurs Aug 20th @ 5:15pm , Saturday 22nd @ 3:30pm, Mon. Aug 24th @ 7pm.

This Side of the Impossible at FringeNYC

 

Banking Brains

Banking Brains

Harvard maintains a brain bank where over 7,000 human brains are stored for research purposes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They are only for looking, poking, and slicing. You may not taste them. Nor can you check one out to see if you like it better than the one you already have. You are stuck with the one currently in your head, so make the best of it.

Mentalist or Magican? What is the difference? It is the difference between apples and wax fruit!

Mentalist or Magican? What is the difference? It is the difference between apples and wax fruit!

I am often asked, “Are you a mentalist, or just a magician?” While the phrase “just a magician” is appropriate in any context, comparing a magician to a mentalist, especially a mentalist such as myself, is a poor analogy.  It is, as the title implies, the difference between a delicious ripe apple, and a piece of cheap wax fruit.

One is genuine and enhances the body and mind. The other is fake, and while attractive, just takes up space and gets squishy in the sun.

A mentalist is skilled in the art of mentalism, which takes years of discipline to focus the mind to such a vibration that it can communicate with other minds, and tune into the elusive waves of the past, present, and future that are in the air. A magician is skilled in buying nicknacks from a magic shop. That, and annoying rabbits,  misusing hats,  and doing unspeakable things to doves.

Not that magicians don’t have their place.  They can be an amusing diversion, like a shiny object to a chimp, or an iPad to nearly everyone. I have friends who are magicians. They make pleasant company,  as long as you speak slowly, use very common words,  and refrain from using common words over two syllables. In fact, the word “syllable” makes most magician’s eyes glaze over.

A mentalist, however, is skilled practitioner in a craft that demonstrates the power of the human mind, and does so in an entertaining manner. Granted, there charlatans who claim to be true mentalists, but who are merely magicians pretending to have highly developed mental powers, who are deceiving their audiences with false presentations of mentalism.

I am no such charlatan. I have a long and storied carrier as a mentalist, I can assure you, in asserting such a claim, I am either telling the truth, lying or insane. And I assure you I am not lying.

 

 

 

 

Berkeley Marsh Happy Hour. Only 2 Fridays left–Jan 18th and 25th! Experience something on Friday evening you’ll remember the rest of your life!

Berkeley Marsh Happy Hour. Only 2 Fridays left–Jan 18th and 25th! Experience something on Friday evening you’ll remember the rest of your life!

I, Sebastian Boswell III, mentalist and entertainer,  will be performing for 2 more shows at the Berkeley Marsh Happy Hour. 6pm on Friday 18th and Friday 25th.  2120 Allston Way.  No cover charge, and your weekend will be better for it.


Last week there was a full house for my show, and then some went next door to see Mr. Wavy Gravy. Here is a photo of Mr. Gravy, waving.

Get Happy with Sebastian! Mentalism and more Fridays in December and January at the Marsh Berkeley

Get Happy with Sebastian! Mentalism and more Fridays in December and January at the Marsh Berkeley

I have the honor of performing demonstrations mental miracles and physical wonders at the Marsh Berkeley, (most) every Friday night in December 2012 and every Friday night of January 2013.

No show December 28th.

All shows at 6pm. Full bar and Food! Come satisfy your thirst, appetite, and sense of wonder all at the same time.

Though not a children’s show, children are welcome as long as they are curious, intelligent, and acceptably precocious.

2120 Alston Way, Berkeley.

There is no better way to end or usher in the New Year.

http://themarsh.org/happy_hour.html

 

 

Spamlish

Spamlish

As a mentalist of no small reputation, my blog attracts spam like Nelson’s Column attracts pigeons.  They are usually summarily deleted, but this was worth saving:

 

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