The Cafe is bloated with a lot of trite discussions. This is exacerbated by Scribner and crew deleting many of the interesting ones due to some hidden agenda or misguided rationales.

Anyway, one of the topics started daily (can’t anybody use the search function?) is suppose you were on a desert island….

According to your perspective, I’m either on a desert island or taking a sojourn to hell. Visiting a mother in her nineties is a tortuous duty. I’ll spare you the details. I pray that I have the money left to buy a bullet to spare my boys these excruciatingly horrible obligations – if you are an only child, you have my sympathies.

Anyway, I usually grab a couple of books when I make these trips – something to divert my attention. I’m increasingly convinced that the recent books of John Bannon (I don’t own the earlier ones) represent the best of the modern writers:

• Smoke and Mirrors
• Inpossibilia
• Dear Mr. Fantasy

If you have the books, but don’t have the DVDs, I strongly recommend you add them to your collection. Be warned, John is a $450 an hour lawyer and not a performer. The tricks, even the most difficult, are competently performed, however, and you will traverse the great divide from the printed word to performance much quicker.

One disappointment, though, either Yedid has no eye for women or somebody’s wife chose them for the video. We’ll be charitable and say uninspiring.

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Jim Coles writes an intelligent and insightful blog, unlike the spittle you’re currently reading. I found the following article on e-book pricing particularly well done.

Unexpected Wonders: Magic E-Book Pricing.

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A professional magician was charged yesterday with multiple counts of sexual assault on allegations he molested a Collingswood girl numerous times over 10 years, authorities said.

Local magician charged in sex assaults on girl | Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/27/2007.

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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

These guys have something good going here:

Time Out Chicago: Tricks of the trade.

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Only fools are positive. – Moe Howard

Police Arrest Alleged ‘Magicians’ In Phony Money Scam – Local News Story – WTVJ | Miami.

This is hard to write – Damn hard. A business across the street from me had to close its doors – fucking China again . I know global competition and all the other horse shit spouted by the MBAs and CPAs that are running, and ruining, this country.

They had the doors open yesterday so the vultures could come and preview the body before it was sold off today. I was walking the dog and inside was a gigantic American flag – one he had put up after 9/11. He’s a veteran, also.

Unfortunately the poor soul has no real idea what happened. All he knows that honesty and hard work have been rewarded with bankruptcy – still he flies the flag. Damn!

This story is written thousands of times every week. Good people destroyed by people like Dick Fucking Cheney and his corporate buddies. People that kill more before morning coffee than Bin Laden can in his wettest dreams. All the while that moron we have for a president is running around playing guns to prove he has a bigger weenie than his old man.

What a mess – what a terrible mess.