03/05/07 Update

My friends and enemies alike have been making tentative jabs at me with sticks, trying to see if I'm actually alive, since it's been so long since I've updated my website. Yeah, it's been over five years since I've written anything here, and the photos are very old by now. Old photos you can understand, of course, as they make me look so much younger than I am. But not even writing anything? Sheeesh! Get with it Daniel!

Awright, so I've escaped the oven-heat of Phoenix and moved back to the Prescott area where I graduated from high school. Gradually I've been sticking my left big toe in the business water here, wondering when I'm going to take that giant leap and spend all my money on advertising, announcing my presence to the locals. (Phew, what a long sentence!) But even if the move to a less populated area may cost some money and time while re-establishing myself, still the weather is at least a hundred degrees cooler in the summer.

For those who might be wondering, I am still performing (of course), and am planning the usual summer library shows. I'm also still doing lots of birthday parties and family events.

Blessings, everyone!

11/13/01 Update

Okay, so it's been awhile since I've written a newsletter. Sorry, heh heh. In the last year and three months, I've been traveling around between Phoenix, LA, Nevada and Washington state, performing magic shows, having as much fun as I'm allowed, and pretty much doing the mayhem that I do. As always the show has matured again into something a little sillier and a little more infantile in its own comical way. I've retired a couple bunnies, including Houdini the hotoe dwarf and Dumbo the flying fluffazooma. And cheerfully taking Dumbo's place is the extremely tiny, completely black "Harold" the Netherland dwarf. Snowball and George the white doves are totally in love and trying to make eggs that hatch, and I've added Ringo the ring-neck dove to the show. He's dizzy with pride in the showman's spotlight. Sunnybird the lutino lovebird and Azure the blue budgie are also strangely in love. That's an odd thing, a lovebird and a parakeet in love. You'd have to see it.

Meanwhile, I've been spending much of my time in Las Vegas, trying to set up more business here, while weekends are mainly filling up in the Phoenix area. Winter's coming on, and the weather in the southwest should be dipping down below 90 degrees sometime soon. I can't wait. :-)

8/27/00 Update

Well, I just got back from Washington state. I drove up there for my parents' 35th wedding anniversary celebration. I did a magic routine for them; three of the brothers (Joel, David and myself) sang a pretty funny song Joel wrote for Mom and Dad; and David played the harmonica. I did a gospel magic show for the kids at a church there in Spokane to help pay for the trip. Then there was the long drive back to Phoenix. I decided, this time, to smell the roses along the way: I traveled the highways through Oregon and Nevada instead of my usual freeway route through Salt Lake City. Wednesday night I hung out in Vegas a few hours before traveling on. On Thursday I arrived in Phoenix. And there on my answering machine was a message from my old friend and magic partner, Brian Staples, saying that he had a real potential opportunity for some shows in Vegas. He had also been there on Wednesday. Good luck, Brian!

Friday, it was back to the daily grind. Wait a minute, what grind?! I'm a magician! I love my job!

The DeCembre recording project is going slow but well. For those who didn't know that one of my hobbies is music, well, now you know. The band is DeCembre ("December"), and although there are only two of us now, we're having a great time anyway! The demo's done, and we're halfway through the rest of the album. That's about all the news for now. Check back in a few more weeks!