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- Mom, re: watching May on Halloween
- Dad, re: tickets to see Lance Burton
- Sal, just to check in
- Mike, re: building me a new metamorphosis trunk
- Channing, re: final rehearsal before the straitjacket escape
- Bee, re: Zee left her cell phone at her place when we went to see Irina yesterday
- Aunt Zeph, re: dinner tomorrow night
- Boney, re: going out tonight
- My publicist, re: that new story the Enquirer ran about me and Sassy
- My agent, re: the deal ABC made. I can't talk about it yet...but Bee will be real damn excited.

Tommy Karras
Original Character

Unique Items I Own:
- five pairs of handcuffs previously used by Houdini
- a pairs of handcuffs designed for Houdini by a well known smith, given to me by the Magic Castle
- A Swarovski crystal replica of my Fraternity talisman (I gave the original to Bee a while back)
- a custom screaming skull ring my best friend Benji gave me back in our school days. It's sterling silver with real ruby eyes, I wear it constantly.
- A pair of diamond earrings from Tiffany's, square diamonds set in platinum. All Sassy's fault, and I wear those more than I wear Benji's ring.
- Whups, take it back: ten pairs of cuffs used by Houdini. Sassy bought me a set recently, with a pair my brother Theo used, too. Provenance is from Dash himself.
- a 2009 Hummer H3X, local dealership gave it to me for the SUV nail bed stunt I did a few months back
- A few Affliction t-shirts and jeans that were never actually released. They're samples I picked up working at Black Saber, stuff we used in ad shoots and shit.
- a Voisin biplane from 1909. It's the one that made me the first man to fly in Australia.
- a cat who can sit on command. Not even shitting you, my little boy Hardeen sits, shakes hands, and even rolls over when you tell him to. Not even my German Shepherd can do that.

Rumors Being Spread About Me:

- I'm cheating on Zee with Channing
- My girl's been cheating on me with Sal Vieri
- I'm cheating on Zee with Sal Vieri
- I'm actually a psychic
- I'm stealing Channing's slot at the Mirage
- I'm trying to buy Houdini's remains
- The shooting a couple of weeks ago was a publicity stunt
- My daughter is really Sal's
- I married Zee six months ago in a secret ceremony in LA
- I'm filming a new TV show about magic...and while it ain't true? I do film some of the stuff I do around Vegas for my own reference, and who knows? Maybe I'll do something with it later on.

Tommy Karras
Original Character

- My brain is the key that will set me free.
- Hope springs eternal.
- Believe.
- Imagination is more important than information.
- Everything you can imagine is real.
- Love lives forever.
- All the world's a stage.
- Where there is love, distance doesn't matter.
- Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once.

- walk Prometheus
- wash Prometheus (if I'm feeling better later)
- nap with my girl and my menagerie
- change the litter box before Hardy protests by peeing in the foyer again
- take May shopping for some new clothes (if I'm feeling better later)
- finish "Amystika"
- finish "The Bride"
- finish "The Lady"
- work on the last painting I started
- email Fillmore about those new set sketches
- email George in Marketing about those layouts for 24/7 Magazine...the ones Chan threw at my head yesterday
- try to remind myself that the point of staying home sick from work? Is to not work.

Things I'm Sick Of:

- the recession
- hearing about the damn Trojans from Jack over at the Secret Garden
- gas prices
- traffic on Las Vegas Boulevard
- the magic traditionalism here in Vegas
- the furtive little concerned looks my friends & family keep sharing when they think I'm not looking
- stupid mistakes from Fraternity veterans on the battleground
- The Darkness in general
- hearing that "it gets easier"
- hearing that I need to take it easy
- hearing that the cops will get the guy who killed my girl
- the goddamn nightmares visions
- being in the dark
- being subject to visions of the past and future that don't fucking help me
- being alone
- watching my loved ones suffer
- missing Ziyah

Ways I Save Money:

- clip grocery coupons
- cruise the Pennysaver and other free classifieds
- sign up for email coupons (also saves the planet, less paper)
- use my employee discount
- get free stuff from folks in marketing at work
- shop at outlet malls
- one word: Target. Their sales'll surprise ya.
- cook at home instead of eating out
- carpool
- use the Monorail to get around the Strip

- my jeans
- my bike
- my house (least when I don't let Belle go crazy)
- my workspace
- my body (I just did get some new ink done)
- my car (Boys, sorry but fuck you, I'm fixing the damn paint job)
- my art

Tommy Karras
Original Character

List of supplies for Buried Alive

- standard size coffin
- replacement coffin lid (modified w/plexiglass top for viewing purposes)
- rental/purchase of plot at Desert Springs Memorial Park in Las Vegas, NV
- hearse rental
- floral arrangements
- infrared camera (for coffin interior)
- flourescent lighting (for installation inside coffin during initial presentation)
- television rentals for surface viewing
- backhoe rental
- tarps
- shovels
- folding chairs
- a fuckload of luck

Tommy Karras
Original Character

Upcoming Holiday Plans:
- Warn Zee about eating Thanksgiving with a big Greek family. She's Italian, she gets lots of food...but she doesn't know my family.
- Con Aunt Zephyr into making her fried red mullet
- Make the turkey with Mom like I do every year
- Avoid any and all talk of football
- Talk Dad out of taking Mom to Mykonos and the nude beaches for Christmas
- Talk Mom into getting Dad the Houdini Movie Collection for Christmas
- Spend some time by Lake Mead with my girl in hopes of snow
- Shop for gifts
- Go ice skating
- Drink eggnog with my folks and try not to vomit...I hate eggnog.


People I Hope To See Before New Year's
- Jay Kellar
- Mike Kellar
- Ben Crawford
- Martin Mackenroy
- Jelly Lang
- Carbone Karras
- Sassafras Lally
- Cinzia Ambrogio (Zee keeps swearing she's gonna visit)
- The Searchlight crew
- Dog Elpis
- Aunt Zephyr
- Great Uncle Costa

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Performance Job Offers I've Gotten In Vegas:
- Three potential engagements with the Mirage: strolling magic in one of their on-site bars, including their adult club.
- Operational management of any Houdini's Magic Shop location on the Strip.
- A guest spot in Mac King's afternoon show for two weeks.
- An engagement at Caesars as a strolling magician for their nightclub PURE. The gig would include construction of a stage on the terrace level for some full-scale magic.
- A twelve week slot filling in for Channing at the Flamingo. Which I turned down...I got a feeling they may be trying to burn her, and I plan to tell her about it.

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Tommy Karras
Original Character

- upside down straightjacket escape
- underwater 100 ft. rope escape
- body suspension
- bank vault escape
- bullet catch
- Buried Alive (sorry, guys, but it's still an option)
- water torture cell (old school or something updated, maybe an endurance deal? See how long I can stay in there...)
- safe escape
- levitate over Capitol Records building
- walk down the side of Capitol Records building
- straightjacket escape in a cell full of snakes (based on a nightmare I had)
- deadlift a semi
- industrial fan crawl (just like it sounds, crawl through a running industrial fan)
- public demonstration of Russian Roulette
- elevator shaft mentalism demonstration (four shafts, one elevator...I choose, I walk in and if the elevator's not there...)

Tommy Karras
Original Character

* moving to Las Vegas
* starting high school
* hearing my dad's first diatribe on Houdini
* seeing my first magic show...Kelzo the Great at the 5th Street Fair when I was six
* learning my first card trick the summer before I started high school
* moving to California
* starting school at UCLA
* going into my first tae kwon do class
* getting my first internship at Black Saber Studios
* rooming with Ben Crawford in college, AKA Master Mackenroy's nephew
* seeing Scorpions in concert
* getting mugged three months ago and catching the bullet in my bare hand
* lending an ear to a low-feeling Italian girl with a sweet smile

Tommy Karras
Original Character