I had a lot of fun bringing my lecture to the North East. It was great to have Mr. Justin Robert Young along as my interpreter and Mr. Cameron Ramsay as our host. Boy did we give Cameron a hard time. We gave him several nicknames and reenacted painful scenes from his childhood at every opportunity. I'm still laughing at the thought of a chubby kid Cameron getting stuck in a subway turnstile with his toy plastic trumpet. Justin and I will be performing that as a play on the dinner theatre circuit. Of course, Cameron is grown up now and we jealously watched as half the cougars on Rhode Island tried to set him up with their teenage daughters. That might be why someone loaded his internet browser with obscene bookmarks when he wasn't looking. I know it's the reason I'm posting the goofy photo of him trying to ride a stationary bicycle.

The first lecture was at the fantabulous Diamonds Magic Shop in Peabody, Massachusetts. It's the kind of shop that actually has the stuff you're looking for in stock. A rarity nowadays, I know. Eddie and his wife are the owners and super nice folks. Please stop by the shop if you're even remotely in the area. Thanks to everyone who showed up. We actually ran out of chairs!

That night we ended up where every magic lecture ends up: TGI Fridays. The waitress was politely amused by our magic tricks and seemed unphased when Cameron and I screwed up basic tricks in the most basic ways. For future reference to anybody reading this; if I hand you a deck I openly shuffled with the aces culled to the top, please do a miracle for the waitress with the godsend I gave you and don't just shuffle the cards like some idiot who gets stuck in subway turnstiles holding a toy trumpet.

The next day we took a trip to Boston and actually parked a car in Harvard Yard (well, close to it). No trip to Boston isn't complete without a trip to the Boston Apple Store. For MacHeads like me it's like visiting Cathedrals in Europe, or In-N-Out Burgers in LA.

While walking through Boston we came across this rather inexplicable metal plate on the ground.

Speaking of borderline obscenities, we got to watch Justin co-host the NSFW show from Cameron Ramsay's living room.

The next day was the Rhode Island lecture at Cameron's magic club. We had a much larger turnout than was expected and I'd like to thank everyone who showed up. A special shout out to Todd Migliacci (@upcomingmagicia) who may be the only person to have seen my lecture in two states.

After the lecture we took a stop by the infamous Lizzy Borden house where the spinstress (probably) murdered her family in 1892. While there we conducted an impromptu ghost hunting investigation and made a startling discovery. I caught the whole thing on video:

We spent most of Wednesday waiting for our plane at the airport. In an attempt to entertain ourselves we made a video for Katie Kenner who was thousands of miles away at the World Magic Seminar handing out Theory 11 decks to any shemp who showed her a card trick. Not wanting to be left out, I concocted this. It was shot in one take and on the first take:

That was pretty much our entire adventure. Oh, and I also ate 12 Boston creme donuts for no apparent reason. Thanks again to Big Pasta a.k.a Trumpet Boy a.k.a. Cameron Ramsay for being an awesome host.