President John Kennedy is credited with the following statement: ….As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats.. Does the success, notoriety and exposure of David Blaine and/or Criss Angel help you as a magician? Personally, I couldn’t be further from either of them. I’m fat, white, old and …
I seldom buy one trick books or one trick DVDs. Generally I feel screwed when I do so and the after market value is pitiful. I made an exception recently and bought John Born’s book Meant To Be… It is subtitled Principals and Techiques for the Sopisticated Magical Artisite. It is actually an exhaustive treatise …
I try to limit commenting on other blogs, because it’s trite and dumb in most cases. There are instances, however, where I feel the subject matter is so important, that a failure to bring them to your attention would be unfair. Steve Pellegrino at MagiCentric writes one of the most popular magic blogs and reading …
Boy! The magic blogging landscape is becoming seriously crowded with defunct sites. I know some of them have disappeared under the guise of taking a break or a sabbatical, etc. etc., but in most cases they never return. It’s really too bad, we’ve lost some excellent writers and some of them I really miss. …
Up front – even though I’m an old coot, I like David Blaine. I think he’s a capable magician and he’s good for magic – whatever that means. Is it my kind of magic? Generally no, but there’s a lot to be learned from watching him. The fact is, I’m not in his target demographic …
There’s a thread on the Genii Forum that I recommend everyone read: Click Here The thread is primarily a bunch of old coots flopping around like beached flounders complaining about a new site that exposes some tricks and supposedly aids in the distribution of copyrighted manuscripts. What they say, may or may not be true. …
