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Taking Advantage of the New Facebook Layout

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If you haven’t visited my personal Facebook profile recently, I took advantage of Facebook’s new layout design with the recently tagged photos feature by making a fun composite photo.

My Normal Experience with the Airport and TSA

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“TSA must have a lot of fun with you.” I hear this a lot when people see me packing up my show for travel. Between rubber chickens, beer bottles, hammers, rubber gloves, portable paper shredders and a handful of wireless devices with antennae and LED number countdown displays, yes – it’s sometimes quite tiring to go through airport security. Here are a couple stories.

Top Ten Audience Members For Whom I'm Thankful

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This Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for my audience members. Magic provokes a very wide range of weird responses in people and it’s those responses that make the job fun. See if you can figure out which type of audience member you are.

Michael Kent Returning to Perform in Hometown: Urbana University Show Wednesday

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I don’t get back to Urbana often enough, but I’m excited to return to the land of the Blue Knights and Hillclimbers THIS WEDNESDAY. I’ll be performing at Urbana University at 9pm at the Student Center! This is the city where I grew up and went to high school. Urbana High School’s mascot is the Hillclimber because the high school is situated – get this – on a hill. They named the school after what you have to do to get to it.

Gremlins in the Sound System!

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On Friday night, I took a trip to East Lansing, Michigan to perform at Michigan State University. And some of the Halloween gremlins got into the sound system and almost got the best of me!