cause the fact of the matter remain that i miss the hypnotic. how does hypnotism work? anybody know? if you could hypnotize anyone, the world would be yours. need money? just convince the bank to give you some. need friends? convince people to like you. anything is possible. in fact, after watching a master hypnotist at work, you get a little scared. you start to think "wow, i just saw him totally mind control those people, how powerful is this guy?" professor x could telepathically control people but he's fiction (arguably). hypnotists however, really can control people. i've witnessed it, dozens of times at the del mar fair and on various tv shows.

but never, never in all my life have i seen a friend get hypnotized to the extent that i saw babbs hypnotized. he brought over a tape from ninety seven of a hypnotist show he was in. babbs and his friend, thomas, got super hypnotized. like way under the weather. like they were *poof* gone. they, along with ten other suckers, were so far under the influence that they were doing the craziest shit i've ever seen. the video is pure gold. trust me. it's the funniest piece of video you'll ever see. fuck seinfeld, fuck christopher guest, fuck chris rock. this video is the shit. i laughed so hard and so often that i woke up this morning with my voice missing. it's that good folks. once i figure out how to convert this treasure to indestructible dvd format, everyone must see it. it's unbelievable. and of course, babbs is the undisputed star of the show, even back in the day. this tape is ridiculous. i would describe some of it to you but it does the show no justice. if you've ever thought that babbs himself was hypnotizing, wait till you see him hypnotized. superlatives fail me.

this question came up: when you're hypnotized, is it more likely that your inner self is revealed (alchohol anyone?) or your most comfortable self is displayed? we postulated that it made more sense if your most comfortable self emerged. so if you're a guy crazy horny bastard, then that's what you'll appear to be onstage. if you're mean, spiteful and insecure, that's what you'd be under hypnotism. in order to be hypnotized, you have to be comfortable with the actions that you're undertaking. you can't make people do what they don't want to do. presumably.

and why are certain people much more susceptible to hypnotism? does this mean that they're more comfortable with themselves? easier to control? weaker of mind? more trusting? what causes one person to be hypnotism resistant and another to be a total hypnotist's floozy? much research will be conducted on this topic. for now, just know that a tape of babbs exists that will make you laugh till you die.