I just can’t seem to be satisfied with the look and feel of this blog, but I think that this may be it. It’s required a boatload of tweaking and there’s still a wart or two – it’s new, but there are real possibilities.
I’ll be adding an image gallery this week – I hope and additional content to make this a place every magician will want to visit. I loathe web sites that are always posting big plans and never delivering – that won’t happen here.
I promise!!
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Years ago, Harry Lorayne wrote that he doubted any card trick will ever compete with a young lady in a miniskirt doing the frug (for those under a 100, that was a seriously sexy dance – in those days). Competition for your audience’s attention grows stronger every day.
Reality and illusion continuously merge until we no longer believe our eyes and we begin to accept everything as normal.
Our magic must unequivocally punch our spectators in the nose and get their attention. It must be visible and inexplicable. I’m not sure 4 year olds buy the change bag any more.
Think! Try to see what your audience sees. Video cameras are cheap. Use one.
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In September 2005 Brooks started a new section on the Cafe called The Buffet. I guess you could call it a blog section. Several of the more prolific members were given the opportunity to post essays on any matters they chose. Brooks, so he told us at the time, was just too busy to regularly contribute to the Cafe, so this would be his way to give us his thoughts and share some of the inside poop. We were going to travel together on a new highway……blah blah blah
Excluding the self-aggrandizing introduction, he’s managed to make 4 posts in over 2 years. We see comets more often than that.
I’ve got a suggestion, Stevie. You don’t seem too busy to not make it to the supper table, or lunch table, or breakfast table, or midnight snack table, or afternoon snack table etc. If you’re going to do something – skip a meal and write the damn column or just chuck the whole thing. Today is ONE YEAR since your last post. That ought to be an embarrassment, but I doubt it is.
As my buddy Jed would say…..
Pitiful – just pitiful.
To be fair, there are two good things happening on the Buffet. Brad Burt is writing his usual, insightful perspectives and I see Jamie Grant is once again posting. Both are worth your consideration.
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When it’s all over, it’s not who you were. It’s whether you made a difference. – Bob Dole
My mother passed away last week and even though it was expected it sure hurts. She was a strong woman – going out on her own terms. She decided to discontinue the transfusions that were keeping her alive and let nature take its course. It was the right decision.
The end came quickly – too quick for me, but a blessing for her. I’m an only child and there’s not a corner of my life she didn’t touch. If I think of magic, it was the frequent trips to the only magic store in town and the purchase of my first real trick – the Prayer Vase. The magic set at Christmas or the money to buy the latest miracle from Douglas Magicland or Top Hat.
In her later years she sometimes frustrated me and I got mad – real mad at times (I got my temper from her), but it probably wasn’t fair. That’s something I’ll live with. Today, everything reminds me of her. The human mind is a wonderful thing – the ability to recall the good and suppress the rest is marvelous.
See ya later, Mom…….
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Joke-Telling Urinals Make Hollywood Land Sale Tricky
(While writing this, I ran across the following:
I guess things could be worse!)
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On days, like today, I would gladly trade places with a urinal cake. – i/m
Mr. Erland referred to yours truly as venerable in his latest post.
I wasn’t sure if I had been insulted, so I checked the dictionary:
Pronunciation: \?ve-n?r(-?)-b?l, ?ven-r?-b?l\
Function: adjective
- Date: 15th century
1: deserving to be venerated —used as a title for an Anglican archdeacon or for a Roman Catholic who has been accorded the lowest of three degrees of recognition for sanctity2: made sacred especially by religious or historical association3 a: calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments <a venerable jazz musician>; broadly : conveying an impression of aged goodness and benevolence <encouraged by the venerable doctor’s head-nodding> b: impressive by reason of age <under venerable pines>synonyms see old
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