San Luis Obispo County Superior Court Judge John Trice ruled Friday that Jonathan Yarbrough – whose stage name is Jonathan Pendragon – must stand trial on felony charges of assault with a firearm, making criminal threats and other charges that could result in a decade in jail.
His wife of 33 years Charlotte Yarbrough – also known as Charlotte Pendragon – testified at the hearing that her husband confronted her on July 8, demanding to know if she was seeing another man. She says he threatened to shoot off her toes and fired the gun near her feet at their home in Arroyo Grande.
We were trying to figure out why our bookings had fallen off dramatically. We still have our Yellow Pages ad, the newspaper classified and display ads, our radio blitz, and even a 15 second spot on local cable news. In fact, our advertising expenses have only increased this year over last but the number of shows per dollar has fallen harder than a husky kid on our home-made Flying Carpet Illusion.
It turns out we have been victimized by the Swine Flu. We were not infected by H1N1, but potential clients apparently fear we could be a carrier of the potentially lethal influenza virus from kids’ show to kids’ show.
We think it was Jonas Salk or Ben Casey who demonstrated the truth that children are essentially nothing more than incubators for disease. Ask any teacher about the infectious potential of any given class of 20 or so little ones. The parents, late for work or enchanted rendezvous, send the feverish kids to school with their pockets full of tissues, noses gushing with a steady, gelatinous aggregation of rapidly mutating strains of parasitic, opportunistic infections; imploring them to share with their classmates.
Jonathon Bryce will be performing a different kind of burial escape this Saturday in Shakopee, Minnesota.
Anyone can escape from beneath 128 cubic yards of packed soil, cement, or even ice.
Mr. Bryce is going to escape from corn.
According to the Pioneer Press, the 30-year-old Escape Artist wanted a different kind of escape for his leg of the International Brotherhood of Magician’s World Wide Escape Artist Relay.
Corn is different.
Mr. Bryce will allow himself to be handcuffed, chained, and securely locked into a wooden coffin buried four feet beneath approximately three tons of corn. He hopes to not only escape with his life but also raise money for the Twin Cities Shriners Hospital for Children..
“I’ve always wanted to do a buried-alive stunt,” Bryce said. “It’s very heavy and dark. The corn is freezing cold. When you’re under that much corn, the weight is indescribable.”
He tells reporters that he revised his vocabulary as he prepared for the stunt.
We didn’t get a program until we opened our goody bag during the first seminar on Saturday morning.
We were listening to Dr. Tracy Bale from the University of Pennsylvania give a talk entitled Oh, Behave! Genes, the Epigenome, and Other Tales of Regulation.
Now, we don’t know your position on the whole Epigenome issue and we’re not here to preach our position as superior but suffice it to say we think one day behaviorists and geneticists will again work together. Sure, it may not be in our lifetime but the time is coming.
We have not withheld our admiration for The Fox Sisters as both innovators and debunkers in the past.
True, both Katie and Maggie Fox recanted their recantation of Spiritualism before they died but for a brief, shining moment, they did the right thing.
On the way to the right path, they developed a whole new industry catering to those in sorrow and doubt. Through their single-handed innovation of the modern seance, they struck gold figuratively and literally in the fearful psyche of the common man or woman.
The three sisters established the ground rules for all who would claim skills in Spiritualism; darkened room, physical contact with the medium, coded responses from beyond, and even physical manifestation of a passed loved-one’s body in part or in whole.
As we head into the Seance Season, it is proper to recall that the three girls from New York who began the practice also sought to end by complete exposure of their methods and motivations. But it was too late, common wisdom had already accepted the principles and ritual behind Spiritualism. Even complete exposure of the methods used to dupe those who now held fast to their conviction that it was real, was insufficient.
Victor Hugo wrote, “An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.”
Apparently that was true whether the idea is based in fact or fiction.
San Luis Obispo County Superior Court Judge John Trice ruled Friday that Jonathan Yarbrough – whose stage name is Jonathan Pendragon – must stand trial on felony charges of assault with a firearm, making criminal threats and other charges that could result in a decade in jail.
We were trying to figure out why our bookings had fallen off dramatically. We still have our Yellow Pages ad, the newspaper classified and display ads, our radio blitz, and even a 15 second spot on local cable news. In fact, our advertising expenses have only increased this year over last but the number of shows per dollar has fallen harder than a husky kid on our home-made Flying Carpet Illusion.
Jonathon Bryce will be performing a different kind of burial escape this Saturday in Shakopee, Minnesota.
So, we’re hanging out at the 
We have not withheld our admiration for The 
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