January 2011
107 posts
Happy New Year!
fuckyeahhst:
Make sure to get really reckless tonight and experiment with drugs and get into trouble! You’re only young once!
Who Other? Virgin Run?
Certain things in life make little sense to me, yet they are things I tend to see and hear a lot.
“Other magicians would never do this”.
Hrm. Ok. They’d never….ummmmm…why…this is new to me anyway. Squeaks in a laymen’s skull almost loud enough to translate with no words.
And fuck those other guys. Personally I don’t like the word magician, being I’m just a humble card guy anyway. Others? ...
December 2010
94 posts
Bitches
Happy New Years from the Boys at the 80’s Remembrance Magic Circle.
Keep Radical and don’t be scared of cheap belt buckles.
Be Careful This New Year's Eve
fakescience:
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via ageofreason)
http://members.tripod.com/amazing_kreskin/ →
With thanks to the comment posted at DD. Disturbing.
“I vow to let go of all worries and anxiety in order to be light and free.”
– Thick Nhat Hanh (via ageofreason)
This fellah is a fine author if you like Zen ideas. I recommend his works.
Wink Wink Nudge Nudge
There’s a good sandwich routine Duffie composed in Compulsions I tend to use a lot.
Skipping to the chase, it screams to be performed as a card under glass, or “funny” quickie.
I ponder how many would run to a wallet, box, a fold etc.
Some items just aren’t meant for over indulgence of nerddom. Dingle’s CUG is a wise lesson we all know instinctive but strangely...
Bad Children Get Coal
fakescience:
Tom
Catching up again at Magic News Wire, the Tom Mullica interview was fantastic.
I already had admiration for the man before. That interview really put it all in perspective. Talk about a strong man with a hell of a story to tell.
The animal world has its junkies too →
science:
Pharmaceutical Journal:
One [species that uses hallucinogenic plants], appropriately for a Christmassy article, is the reindeer, which goes to great lengths to search out the hallucinogenic fly agaric mushroom (Amanita muscaria) — the one with the white-spotted red cap that garden gnomes like to sit on. Eating the toadstool makes reindeer behave in a drunken fashion, running about...
Crime! Drugs! Magic DVDs?
——-The same goes for DVDs. Every time you buy a copy of a DVD instead of the original, not one cent goes to the creator to reward them for the years of effort they’ve gone through to bring you their creations.
For example - our DVDs ‘Ellis in Wonderland’ and ‘24 Years of Living Next Door to Ellis’ contain at least 24 tricks on each DVD. Tricks that took me over thirty years to refine and perfect...
Says Who Bitches?
Collectors
We’ve taken this classic and usually boring effect and given it STYLE. Two cards are selected and lost in the deck. As the four aces are magically produced, the selections mysteriously appear between them. This is as visual as it gets!
PS. It’s ugly as hell, and not the exact definition of Collectors either….which is debatable.
“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking,...”
– Carl Sagan, who passed away on this day in 1996.
(See also: #sagan forever.)
Such elegance.
Happy Days
Had a very enjoyable yet mild weekend.
Thanks for letting me borrow those books sir. C is for Cookie on Karaoke….brilliant. I still owe you that damn list. Can’t ya see I’m writing here pal.
It was interesting to hang out a little while with another bar owner not actually working. 6 dark beers to try he put on tap should be fun. Hopefully I’ll meet the magic guy they...
Magi Foolers →
This is really great. With thanks.
Watch
365 →
Just in case any of you are missing this, great idea.
PS. Small world.
PSS. Notice how I’m being a good boy. Heh!
No One But Yourself
Me: That statement should just mean more than any one thing. I'm not going to be David Copperfield. I just got what I got.
Babe: and thats what makes u sooo damn sexy!
No Fame
I think we should feel fortunate in an odd way. Very few magicians have ever been truly famous. Some were very big in their day, but most get lost in the sands of time. Laymen don’t know the name Dai Vernon or Alexander Herrmann, with countless examples. Personally I find lack of public fame poetic as an understatement.
Most normally fame goes hand in hand with gimmick. Our best examples...
Three Cheers
For Mr. Ian Swiss. That’s what I’m talking about! None of that Ellen shit.
Fantastic.
Gear →
Attention Span
Cervon’s Trans-Mit has been a good friend of mine for a long time.
Magic can really make a guy crazy with decision though.
Attention Span I like to think is always something to take note of. Trans-Mit is great, but can be a little much for environments of the casual nature.
This is just a note of having options. If time is of the essence, or it’s hard to hear etc. Walton’s...
OOSOOM
The boys at the Double Deal, and brother bottom palm have both brought up Vernon’s classic recently.
I have mixed reactions with the effect. I simply wanted to state that I enjoy “the second” version in Chronicles, at the very least psychology wise. As to say I think it’s one of those items that is great to check out, if anything for learning purposes.
Yet again I...