Mind Blowing Bloke (Funny blog from Comedy Central’s and NBC’s Dwayne Perkins)

So I was in the green room at a show in Worcester, England and one of the other comics was prepping for a whole new act he had been working on.  Apparently he had taught himself to be a mind reader.  It’s not everyday you meet a mind reader let alone a self-taught mind-reader.  Being comics, the rest of us were of course cynical. Being entertainers, we were supportive of a fellow entertainer and we couldn’t knock the hustle.

So our funny medium gave us a huge book of all the works William Shakespeare and told us to open to any page.  We obliged and the mind reader proceeded to read the mind of the comic holding the book from across the room and pretty much guessed a word on the top of each column of the page the book was opened to.

Of course we flipped through the book to make sure that it wasn’t in fact filled with just that same page. It wasn’t.  We were thoroughly impressed, not buying the mind reading angle, but impressed nonetheless with the trick.

Then it dawned on me just how lucky slash odd my life is.  I’m backstage, in England, talking to a self-proclaimed mind reader like most people would talk to an accountant.  There’s a guy reading minds while we all sip on tea and none of it is remotely odd to us.  A ventriloquist and knife thrower could have walked in and we would have nodded like co-workers in a factory break room.  I feel lucky to cross paths with mind readers, magicians and musicians.  I run with an odd lot and I wouldn’t have it any other way.