I mentioned recently that I attended Bill Goldman’s lecture. One of the attendees paid him a tremendous compliment when he said I can’t tell when you’re talking to us and when you are about to do a trick. It was true – Bill was the same performing a trick, teaching a trick or just bull …
Not long enough for an article: 1. That sound you hear when you go to the Cafe’ is death rattles from Mein Brooks’ attempt to create blogs within the confines of his domain. Didn’t work Stevie! It was a bad idea from day one. Maybe you can save the posts to enter in MCJ’s next …
Over the years we all hear of moves which are performed so well by certain magicians that their name becomes synonymous with the sleight or routine: Albert Goshman – Spellbound Don Alan – Chop Cup Ken Krenzel – Classic Pass Chris Capehart – 3 Ring Routine Slydini – Lapping Steve Brooks – His Jabba the …
Nothing to do with magic. Just a joke I liked: A husband takes his wife to play her first game of golf. Of course, the wife promptly hacked her first shot right through the window of the biggest house adjacent to the course. The husband cringed, “I warned you to be careful! Now we’ll have …
Recently, I’ve been inundated by actors turned magicians and their clone lectures. Basically, they all have the same premise: you can take the lamest piece of shit imaginable and through good staging and a well developed character you can have a great performance piece. Well, if you do this you know what you’ve got? A …
Parlour (or parlor), from the Fr. parler (“to speak”), denotes an “audience chamber,” but that is not the import of the Hebrew word so rendered. It corresponds to what the Turks call a kiosk, as in Judg. 3:20 (the “summer parlour”), or as in the margin of the Revised Version (“the upper chamber of cooling”), …
