Free Trick In The Mail

Hello,

You can get a free trick, with all the necessary props, by signing up to receive my Holiday Letter. Simply email me at mirrorname@inebraska.com with your physical address and I will mail the letter out to you, with the free trick. There is no charge for this. This is open to everyone, even people living outside the USA. This offer ends Dec. 23, 2006 so act now.

Sincerely,
Dale A. Hildebrandt
http://www.mirrorname.com/

Ultra Nerd

I've created another blog, titled "Ultra Nerd". Ultra Nerd is For Nerds, By Nerds. I'd apprecitae it if you went and checked it out at http://ultimatenerd.blogspot.com/

Thanks.

Sincerely,
Dale A. Hildebrandt
http://www.mirrorname.com/

The Love of E-Books

Have you always wondered how to research, write, produce, and market an e-book?

People often ask me how they can do what I do, and now I'm revealing my processes for a select group of 20 people in an email course titled "Inside Infopreneuring".

This is an 11 week course, where you get a lesson each saturday for eleven weeks. The lessons are around one page long, short yet powerful, direct and to the point.

The first email course starts this Saturday, Sept. 2, 2006. I still have some spots open, so if you've always wanted to learn the ins and outs of e-books, sign up now.

Simply PayPal $25.00 US to mirrorname@inebraska.com with the subject line "Inside Info".

Sincerely,
Dale A. Hildebrandt
http://www.mirrorname.com/

The Love Of Physical Books

First, I want to thank everyone who has supported me and this blog.

Some people do not enjoy reading from a monitor. I'm not one of those people, but I still enjoy physical books as much as electronic books. I value each one in different, but equal, ways.

If you want to read "The Life And Times Of B. Bizarre" as a physical book, simply go to http://www.lulu.com/mirrorname

There you will find an uninterrupted version of the BlogBook I have posted to this blog (meaning there are no comments between chapters on various things)

Sincerely,
Dale A. Hildebrandt
http://www.mirrorname.com/

PS If you want an electronic version of the book you can get that at http://www.lulu.com/mirrorname as well!

PPS I realize this probably won't generate many sales (after all, you could potentially read the entire book right here on this site) but I thought some of you might like to have this volume in a more cohesive form or in a physical form.

What The Devil?

My blogging activity is going to be concentrated on my new blog "The Devil Still Deals". "The Devil Still Deals" blog looks much better than this blog. You should go check it out at:

http://devilstilldeals.blogspot.com

I've been posting things there and you'll want to take a look.

Sincerely,
Dale A. Hildebrandt
http://www.mirrorname.com/

Other Stuff 3 released

Other Stuff Issue Three has been released. Check it out at http://www.lybrary.com/

Sincerely,
Dale A. Hildebrandt
http://www.mirrorname.com/

About The Last Chapter

Well, the previous posting to this was titled THE "LAST" CHAPTER. And it is the last chapter for "The Life and Times of B. Bizarre". The book ended up being nearly 55 pages when double spaced on 8.5" x 11" paper in Times New Roman 12 point Font.

However, if you enjoyed the writings about B. Bizarre then I have some good news for you. I am going to write a second book--again, chapter by chapter--titled "THE ADVENTURES OF B. BIZARRE". It will start off with what happened when B. Bizarre returned from Asia. It looks like "THE ADVENTURES OF B. BIZARRE" will be published in "Mind Over Magic", a wonderful hardcopy magazine published by TC Tahoe. "Mind Over Magic" is published quarterly. You can find more details about "Mind Over Magic" at http://www.tctahoe.com/mom

I am currently writing the first chapter, so I have no idea which issue of "Mind Ove Magic" that the first chapter will appear in. As soon as I find out, I will post to this blog and to my newest blog "The Devil Still Deals" (found at http://devilstilldeals.blogspot.com/ )

I really hope you enjoyed "The Life And Time of B. Bizarre".

Sincerely,
Dale A. Hildebrandt
http://www.mirrorname.com/

THE "LAST" CHAPTER

The Life And Times Of B. Bizarre
by Dale A. Hildebrandt
copyright 2004-2006

CHAPTER ELEVEN: FORTUNES

B. Bizarre was going to visit Asia for six months. So, I gathered some friends and clients together to bid him farewell. We had Chinese food delivered to the Victorian style house where B. Bizarre had been spending much of his time.

Naturally, the topic of B.’s strange powers came up and B. took that opportunity to perform a little something for the small crowd gathered. To my own surprise, he performed a slight variation of a trick I had published. For the first time since meeting B. Bizarre I actually knew how he was accomplishing what he was doing. I guess this was a “Good-bye Gift” from B. Bizarre to me, almost done like a secret cipher (as I was the only one who would know the mechanics of the effect since I created it).

B. Bizarre talked about coincidence being things happening together at the same time and synchronicity being a MEANINGFUL coincidence. He said that if you look at clocks and every time you see the same time on the clock, then it’s just coincidence. But if you look at a clock at 1:15 PM for three days and then you find out a friend entered the hospital at 1:15 PM three days ago, that is a Synchronicity. B. Bizarre then explained he could make a synchronicity happen.

B. gathered all the wrapped fortune cookies. He started opening them and reading off the fortunes. The second fortune was the same as the first fortune. The third fortune matched the other two. B. Bizarre stopped reading, and quickly opened the rest of the cookies. He held them all in his right hand along with all the fortune cookie wrappers. He dropped the wrappers, and dumped the fortunes into his other hand, doing both actions almost at the same time.

The fortunes were handed to a lady sitting nearby, and the lady confirmed that the fortunes were all the same.
Of course, B. Bizarre had just performed a slight variation of my routine “Fortuitous Fortunes” from my book “Hypnohole & Other Absurdities”. Instead of doing an individual billet switch with each fortune, he used a type of shuttle pass to switch all the fortune billets at the same time. And he added a very sneaky ploy by miscalling the fortunes as he read them! That is, when he read the second fortune, it didn’t match the first one but he pretended that it did and pretended to read the same thing that was on the first fortune. This miscalling of the fortunes made everything seem even more fair than my original version. And last, but not least, when he threw away the wrappers from the fortune cookies, he was able to ditch the fortune billets that had originally been in the cookies.

After the friends and clients (who were still amazed at B.’s demonstration) gave their Bon Voyage’s and farewells to B. Bizarre, I stayed behind to help B. clean up from the small party.
“You knew how that was done, but I’m going to bring back something from Asia that will really knock you for a loop.”

That would be the last time I would see B. Bizarre for a while, so I thanked him for everything and gave him a small parting gift in the form of a Bonsai Tree.