Did I say fuck you to Tim Ellis and James L. Clark?
Your fuck all moral crusades deserve a rocket ship up both your asses.
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Serious
okay, let me be serious for a minute. you may have noticed some of your favorite sites are down today, in protest of the SOPA/PIPA bills being proposed this november. they are under the guise of ending piracy, but by turning regulatory power over to corporations, which means new net businesses could be choked and forced out of business, or information flow could be blocked or prohibited or you could be sued over posting a video of you singing your favorite song. all while piracy software will sidestep the law again and continue. do research, learn about the implications. being opposed to these bills doesn’t mean you’re protecting piracy, it means you’re preserving the rights and freedoms of the internet. i think corporate america has too much control already, don’t you?
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» Tim's WonderLand
Amazing how the majority by far seems to be dick slapping the ignorant fools that try to pass X to stop piracy.
PS. Fuck you too James Clark.
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» A Blog About Card Magic: Blogospherical
Ha! I’ll be talking some magic here and there. It’s assured. Actually I made a post a couple of days ago and added a few magic bits to the “psychology”. I found my first wordpress app bug! All gone! They patched it at least. I’m just out of juice brother. I have so much inside me about these other topics, which I assure you apply to magic. I’ve done a ton of book reading and real life studies of this kind of thing, it’s time I get some off my chest. I still love you all in that bros before hoes, not gay kind of way.Andrew, listen, I know you just got done with your little 365 thing. But c’mon man, you gotta start writing again. Don’t be a lazy bum.
Smiling Mule’s being predictably delightful.
In addition to keeping WMF awesome, Roland’s generated some great ideas on his new-ish Weekly…
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Not Dead
Hey all. I decided to start a new blog for a few reasons.
-The WordPress app is really great on a tablet.
-A more refined and polished blog, different than in the past. The first was my Mr. Hyde, the second here was more of a random and fun communal.
-Starting fresh just feels good! Shifting gears!This blog will not be about magic at it’s core, but i assure that most magicians can get something out of it. To me books like “Strong Magic” are great, but I’m from the school that better magic comes from something higher and more polished…academic if you will. Psychology, social skills, adaptation etc. This will be the general basis, with ranting as always.
Anyway. I really would like to share things that work for myself not only in magic, but everyday life. I really have a passion for the items that I’ll be thinking about and posting in the future.
In hopes you all find it worth your time not only as magicians but socially dynamic people.
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Happy Birthday Jesus!
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Since ya like Bitches Brew. These guys are a favorite of mine rather on the same level.
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Awwwww shit…round two.
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After a morning of sex and drugs, this was the icing on the cake….I’m so….friggin’ happy…right now.
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Ps
Thanks you for dealing with my horrid grammer and spelling. I’m aware this makes you look illiterate and or foolish. I dislike reading what I’ve written twice.
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Ping Pong
You know that silly saying that some people will seek attention….be positive or negative, it’s still attention? There may be truth in that idea in changing it to “implanting” some kind of emotional value…positive or negative.
There was a girl a couple of weeks ago, who by far is the lady as that is the kind of girl you’d think “not many of her kind go out for drinks”. A well dressed, pretty teacher type. The kind we may have had a crush on in grade school. Anyway…she was doing one of those dumb ass “draw a house and a yard” crap and then stating she could tell what people are like from the drawing. She did this for my good friend (whom was working the bar), and I was on the side wanting to not be any part of this mess.
She later asked me if I would like this “cold read”. I stated openly that I’m NOT the guy you want to do that kind stuff to. She persisted and I gave in.
Just to fuck her up when she was going over the drawings I stated things like “I purposely drew this because as you can see it would be symbolic of X”. And after she did her little dance I poetically said “That is total bullshit…the whole idea of what you just showed to me”.
Of course it became a personal thing…to her. In no way was I rude and I was aware not to use any logical fallacy and keep on point as per the cold read that was “science”.
She was pretty juiced up, and you could tell her mind was a bit of a clutter with adrenaline. She was going on about how I could be so offended by the whole thing….which of course I wasn’t, she just didn’t know what to do….and walked away to the other end of the place to get away from my wretched peaceful debate of why life doesn’t work in the manner she presented. I think to a degree I was using the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy and Cold Reading as an explanation..which she had never heard of.
So, a few days ago I see her again and she sits next to me. At first one might think she would categorize me as a dickhead. Who knows. But she sure was quick to come sit with me. The topic of the cold read never came up and we had a really good time for about an hour.
Welp. That’s it. That’s the whole point. I did nothing more than do what others may think to be rude. I called her out as per my opinion and knowledge of basic psychology. The emotion she felt I’d assume made the night less boring for her, though kind of a “crappy” feeling. The impression was made and I suppose gambled on.
I’ve been thinking a lot about conversations aren’t a game of ping pong like most people do. When one upsets the structure to the normal ping pong game it becomes more interesting. Chances are fair you’ll be remembered more often, and not near as hated as one may think, quite the opposite in fact. Like I said in the beginning it’s kind of like “Some people will implant emotion positive or negative…either way the attention span afterwards really doesn’t have a time limit”.
Or something like that.
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GD - Visions Of Johanna - 3/18/1995
