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Issue date: 1/27/06 Section: Diversions

Media Credit: Courtesy of Shwood.com Brian Brushwood, magician, eats fire as part o his act. He will be on campus Tuesday.

Comedy, magic, mind-reading and how it all works are on the agenda for next week's visit from "bizarre" magician Brian Brushwood.

Brushwood is originally from Texas and started doing magic shows in 1983. Since then, he has earned the titles "best club magic" and "best comedy magic" from his home state. And, he has even been named Variety Entertainer of the Year nationwide.

The two-hour event will be split into two one-hour segments.

The first hour will feature magic and entertainment. Brushwood will do tricks ranging from lying on a bed of nails with someone standing on him and escaping a straightjacket in less than two minutes to eating fire and even shoving nails into his eye sockets.

Then, his second hour will focus on the secrets of his magic, how to spot fakes and how to not get ripped off. Brushwood will tell the secrets of street cons, psychic mediums, psychic surgery, crop circles, aliens, UFOs and ESP.

"The best part of the show will be the second half," said Graham Dickinson, vice president of the Campus Activities Board.

Brushwood calls the second half of his performance "Scams, Sasquatch and the Supernatural."

In this segment, he will go into detail about cryptology, unveiling the secrets of Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. Then, he will talk about the increasingly popular "scam" of spiritualism, or talking to dead people.

Brushwood has appeared in many publications and on several TV shows. He has been on the Roseanne Show, Jenny Jones, Ricky Lake, Steve Harvey and even the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

On the Tonight Show, he performed his "human crazy straw" skit, in which he wraps a tube around his body then into his nose and out of his mouth.

Dickinson said he learned about the magician at a National Association for Campus Activities convention in Dallas.

Candice Dickinson, president of CAB, said the Board wanted to bring the show to campus not only because it will be entertaining but because it will be funny will appeal to wide range of students.

Brian Brushwood's Bizarre Magic show will be at 7 p.m., Tuesday in Taylor Auditorium and will be free to all students.

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