Magician Jonathan Pendragon to Stand Trial on Felony Charges

jonathan pendragon booking photoSan 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.

From San Luis Obispo Tribune.

Swine Flu Kid Show Magic

Multiplying Plague Buboes - No Longer Performed in the Health Conscious Kid Show Magic MarketWe 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.

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