Go West Young Marsh

When the MLB rosters expand to 40 players from September until the end of the regular season, many players will get what is known as a “cup of coffee” in the big show. Some might be players who have toiled in the minor leagues for a long time and many are younger players all getting their first look at big league action.

For all of those players it represents the achievement of a goal – to make it to the Majors. Most will only have a limited amount of time at that level and some will go to have successful careers, but anyone who does make it can always say that they played Major League Baseball.

Entertainers also have their “major leagues.” Atlantic City, Branson, Nashville are a few of note. Of course, perhaps the majors of the majors for entertainers, at least in my opinion, is Las Vegas.

Tomorrow I get my cup of coffee when I perform my stage hypnosis show at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.

When I made my career change to the entertainment field (not all that long ago) I set a few major goals for myself.

At the top of list included performing in Atlantic City and Las Vegas. I notched AC last year and tomorrow chalk off Vegas. I was excited about AC, but only 1/10^th as excited as am about Vegas. To me, when I step on stage Friday night it will be just like I am stepping up to bat in Yankee Stadium for the first time.

My next goal is to stay there, or in Atlantic City, and have a regular stint and stay in the starting lineup, so to speak.

But regardless of whether I return to Vegas or Atlantic City again, I can say that I was fortunate enough and worked hard enough to see my dream become a reality.

I have been a little busy the past two days with shows. Tuesday night was at George Washington University in DC. The girl that hired me there was one of those people who believed that she could never be hypnotized because she was a “control freak.”

It is always even funnier to see those people become one of the stars of the show.

Yesterday it was up to Red Bank, NJ to do a podcast for Smodcast, a Kevin Smith creation. At least I think it was a Kevin Smith creation (Silent Bob, from Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, etc.)
Brian Quinn, Walt Flanigan (an incredible artist who has drawn for Smith in a few Batman comic book creations) and Bryan Johnson are the three main players in a creation called “Tell ‘em Steve-Dave.”
I’m not sure what the genesis of that name was, but they also had a side-kick who I hypnotized and they teased for about an hour named Ming Chen. It perhaps wasn’t the best of situations and the main three couldn’t become hypnotized yesterday, but there were some pretty funny moments anyway since they were all funny guys.

http://www.smodcasts.com/ is where that will air on Friday, I think. They mentioned a live show that they are going to do at some point and that they would like me to be there for that when it happens.

Time to get some things done to prepare for my trip.