Bill Lucking

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Bill Lucking, actor friend, starred in Lou Shaw’s production of Barbara Garson’s MacBird. He looked the Kennedy part and played it to the hilt, but he’s known for many acting milestones beyond MacBird. These photos are from a series of photo sessions with Bill and other actors of the Pasadena Playhouse, Player’s Ring Gallery, Moulin Rouge, and other L.A. live stage venues. I have many more shots with Bill in them, and will be rummaging about in my negative files to find them. The negs finally turned up after four decades of “missing in action”. They were discovered in storage, in a perfectly logical “Perfect” hiding spot. Here are a few shots from a session at Norton Street.

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My Life as a Hollywood Screenwriter

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I co-starred several times with my longtime friend Jose Ferrer, and in one case, he starred in one of my “Happening Productions” in Hollywood. This was an artist event in which the “Happening” was an orchestrated eruption of argument in Musso & Frank’s Grill on Hollywood Boulevard in 1969, when this photo was taken by my girlfriend Samantha. The costumes we’re in are relative to the production, not our own clothes.

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Emotional Education

We’ve got Physical Education. Phys Ed is everywhere. Brain education is in university. But where is our post-sandbox Emotional Education? You don’t have to believe me; it takes a moment’s glance to see that Emotional Education is sadly — and perhaps dangerously — lacking in our society. Is there a cure? Yes, there is. Watch the ICW this coming weekend.

See You At The Top!!!

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Demons Runnin’ All Through Me….

Beetlejuice had it good, compared to most folks. You know what I mean; all of a sudden, without warning, your head is full of wild ass-tearing demons, screaming at the top of your lungs, wrecking house & home, making suicide seem like an option when it isn’t. Why do these horribles, kept submerged and supressed all these years, keep coming back to haunt you? Where do they come from? How did they get out? Why do they have so much destructive power over you? Why do they cause you to ruin your own life? How do they get re-triggered? How can you stop them from intruding on your life? Will they ever permanently go away? I’ll be answering these questions at the next ICW. If you have no such problem, don’t watch.

See You At The Top!!!

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Meet the Tools

In each and every Orb are a large number of invocational tools, most of which will already be familiar to any meditator; candles, bundles of incense, incense burners, candle holders, zafu cushions, beads, statues, prayer flags & banners, singing bowls, malas, hand gongs, damaru and other ritual drums, drum brocades, bronze dorjes & phurbas, chimes, string bells, prayer wheels, altar bells, gold figurines, magic mirrors, light-catchers, shakers, rattles, windchimes, dreamcatchers, boxes, gourds, chests…

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Gemini Dancer

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Just took a few fun minutes to explore the dance move potential in this model when I walked her into the Gemini to check on a few items, notably a bunch of missing lava lamps and a funny countertop. All was resolved, and as I had her stand there in admiration of the work I’d done, she all of a sudden started dancing to the music. It is a rather upbeat tune, eh?

I thought you might enjoy the challenge, so I invite you folks who are running any of the Prosperity Path orbs, whether they’re Remedials or Classes, to make a video of your avatar dancing to the music thereof. You’ll find the best music in the Classes and Higher Levels, where I’ve put most of the really good stuff.

Smallest Violin in the World Playing “Hearts & Flowers”

Hearts and Flowers, a sentimental song of yesteryear (that’s a long time ago by modern standards, about the 1900s or teens. It used to be played in theatrical melodramas — American Stage Performances were sort of on a par with modern high school or grade school theater… and still are. Cats, Cats and more Cats. So what about the violin? It’s playing that sad song for anyone who can’t keep up with today’s gaming hardware and user-smartness requirements. First of all, nobody can, not even the idiots who set the standards. Secondly, nobody cares, and thirdly, hardly anyone knows what the hell I’m talking about here. Basic lesson to be learned is, stay with it to penetrate its secrets. That’s the message for this particular eveningtide, in which you can hear the town crier calling gently, “three o’clock and all is well, except for a gang of orcs and dark lords blasting through the barrier! Well, back to work I go now,  on CTF Six, an experiential experience for you in Bardo Architecture, with a touch of gaming thrills, spills and chills!

Should I Go To Magic School???

Tamara asked whether she should go to a local magic school, and I told her that if she penetrated the French Drop & Heb Production with a Magic Bead, she’d be able to deduce all the principles of magic from that, provided she did so in front of an audience at least once per day, as well as before the mirror. The whole principle rests on the fact that you have to learn ALL the basics of magic — misdirection, pause, timing, passes — everything, in order to do what I do on-camera here:

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Save yourself time, money & grief. Don’t enroll in an expensive, time-consuming Magic School, unless you plan to use it as a social networking gig as well.

Get a Magic Bead and Master the French Drop! You can order the beads from me individually — they vary in price, quality and rarity and run anywhere from $5 a bead to $5,000 a bead for a 4,500 year old antiquity with some pedigree papers.

You can also order my DVDs on the French Drop.

You may NOT order the Advanced French Drop until you post a video with your French Drop acceptably performed at least three times in a row before an audience — the deal is, they have to be equally astonished the third time they’ve seen the exact same trick two times beforehand.

You will note that I did NOT reveal the secret, even when showing the television audience the “unsafe” angle! Go thou, and do likewise! This blog, by the way, is an example of the real value of electronic blogs — we did the video just hours ago, it got posted and I wrote the blog just a while after that, and you have the opportunity, if you know to look here, to vew — note that I did NOT say “read”, but “view” — the blog. It has color, sound, movement, immediacy and immersion. You can’t get that on a sheet of paper, at least not yet.

Flanders & Swann, an Introduction

If you’ve no idea how the great theatrical music came to be written, this will interest you greatly:

Do you properly cherish your steaming hot relaxing bath? A bath is composed of many important elements, just as you’d expect from any alchemical preparation … Click on “continue reading” down below, to see the rest of this blog … discover what a hot bath is really all about.

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