Toilet prank idea: You know how people women who are doing number two in public restrooms tend to freeze in time when someone comes in? Often, it’s to mask embarrassment at someone else hearing the splash/dunk/plop/sploosh you’re making, so quite often you get the locked, silent cubicle that’s waiting for the coast to clear.

So. Theoretically, if we could play a continuous recording of feet shuffling, doors closing and taps running about a minute after someone goes into a cubicle, wouldn’t she be stuck indefinitely?

Overhead in the office restroom before I ran out in horror:

Girl A: Hey Girl B, I can smell what you’re doing in there!
Girl B: No, I’m only peeing, okay.
Girl A: Oh…I don’t know…smells like!
Girl B: Maybe something else came out I dunno.

After dinner last night, we crossed over to the bar next door at the Gallery Hotel. Jody’s father told us about the resident magician there, a slim middle-aged Japanese man whose bag of illusions were guaranteed to blow your mind, he said.

I started miming the action of pulling a neverending stream of ribbon out my mouth. “No,” he shook his head. “You’ll see.”

I think the video does a decent job of portraying Jody’s ridiculous reactions, and a crap job at showing the trick. But essentially, it starts out with some painful thumb cuffs and finishes with Jody picking out a card, writing on it in a black marker, and eventually cutting the same card out of a lemon she picked at random from a bag.

(Bonus tip: If you watch till the end, she licks the card to verify its lemoniness. Zesty!)

Also, check out this photo which explains an ash trick that he did on my arm.

Magic!