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Tobias! on July 26th, 2010

The past two weekends have been pretty complicated. I spent the weekend prior to this last one out at Canterbury Faire . This is a relatively new event – a mere two years old – but it’s showing signs of building nicely as a regional RenFaire out in the Salem, Oregon area.  I had the [...]

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Tobias! on July 26th, 2010

One of the biggest challenges for any itinerate variety performer is getting all the stuff  you use in your show from where it’s stored (usually at your home) and getting it to the place where you’re paid to use it. This can be particularly tricky with outdoor events, as there’s not a great deal of, [...]

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Tobias! on June 17th, 2010

The other day I decided I needed some new footwear to got with my non-RenFaire outfits. Thanks to the kind folks at converse.com I have a custom designe pair of sneaks. They go with everything because they go with nothing!

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Tobias! on June 14th, 2010

… Just a little teaser picture of what will be the Big Stupid Finale for the remainder of my 2010 season. The anvil is not part of the Finale…. Yet!

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Tobias! on June 1st, 2010

There are two ways to sell things to other Magicians. Today I discuss the other way…

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Tobias! on May 27th, 2010

We’re coming up on the Portland Rose Festival (actually, as of this posting it’s started up) and I’m looking over my act for this gig. What will be interesting is that this is a performance for which I shall not be passing the hat. A show where you’re trying to get the most money from [...]

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Tobias! on April 14th, 2010

From my “adopted dotter” Nichol – Nikol Bischoff I dunno tons about star charts but… Perseus 2h 39m 0.61s 57o 3′ 40.36″ is now named Tobias the Adequate So wow! I’m a star all right!

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Tobias! on April 6th, 2010

… if you’re reading this from the Adequate Blog page (http://adequateblog.com and http://theadequate.com/adequateblog) I just want to make it clear that the ads you see over -> there are being randomly uh… automatically selected by Google. I have no idea what their criteria is.

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Tobias! on February 19th, 2010

I have a scheduled audition for America’s Got Talent at 10 am on 28 Feb 2010. This is a “skip the waiting line” set up, so my confirmation email will take me righ tto the head of the class. Wow.

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Tobias! on January 27th, 2010

I’m working on a new version of  The Adequate Site… and you can view that at http://theadequate.com/testsite … your comments are, of course, always appreciated.

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