Here's a slightly enhanced version of today's inadvertent work of art. This is how it looked on my iPhone.

Penn & Teller coming up in the Jumble for Saturday, January 28 (used with permission from Tribune Media Services).

Just bought this pic. At the end of a patriotic number at the NY Hippodrome in 1918, Houdini produced this eagle.

Princess Anne with P&T after the Royal Variety. As you can see from our faces, we're awed by Royalty.

I was one of the YOU ME BUMBUM TRAIN performers tonight. You can be, too: contact @TheBumBumTrain. Amazing fun.

Where dressed up soldiers leave their headgear at a Royal Variety show.

Tim Minchin, Tony Bennett, and Princess Anne at the Royal Variety. The woman in gold tells HRH Anne who's who.

With hair and makeup at the Royal Variety.

I don't think the Zip Lock system would let me turn pages on my Kindle Touch. Here's my revised setup for now.

Manchester in the rain chills the bones, but haunts the eye with its gray, industrial vs. modern beauty.

Thelonious Monk's artistic advice in his own hand.

The great satirical comedy team Bob & Ray, whose career spanned 5 decades, liked big ampersands, too.

Penn's son and understudy in the new "Zolten & Teller" ad campaign. He's not the first Penn.

Came home from my trip to find that Hofzinser's cups-and-balls cups had arrived from the English auction house.

The S.F. Teatro Zinzani gang in their lobby after the show. A shameless, showbiz "family" in love with life.

Sean Penn and his his new fiancé were hounded by paparazzi. She yelled for the police escort. Headline in NYPost?

Somebody stole the big Swiss exercise ball that's supposed to be under my feet.

Went into LA to do a little magic bit on Tosh.0. Tosh thought his wig and shirt weren't flamboyant enough.

In Mexico City, anything can happen in the dark.

My fellow Utah tourists.