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Alternatives to the T & R Newspaper

If you think the torn and restore newspaper involves too much preparation consider Richard Osterlind’s Torn and Restored Post-It note or the Torn and Restored Cigarette paper. There are many sources for the latter, but the work done by Martin Lewis is the best in my opinion.

Bore me once – shame on you

Many years ago, there was a Dean Martin (or Friar’s Club)  roast of Johnny Carson. The details escape me, but I vividly recall one of Carson’s come backs at the end of the roast. One of the Presenters was the great Don Rickles and he had killed Carson – he was at his best. Carson’s comeback …

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The Dick that broke the Genii’s back?

It’s now old news, but on 1/13/2008 at 12:20 PM Richard Kaufman announced that the Genii Forum would no longer be public, but available to subscribers only. He’s given nothing but vague reasons from what I’ve read – it’s his forum and he’s free to do with it as he pleases. Non-subscribers will be able to …

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Steve Martin / Earl Scruggs video

I just picked up Steve Martin’s autobiography. What a funny, inventive guy. As I’ve told people for so long, he was doing this schtick for 14 years before Saturday Night Live “discovered” him. Anyway, it has nothing to do with magic, but I just posted the You Tube video of Ear Scruggs, Steve Martin and …

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Quick Thought

   My parents told me about Mr. Common Sense early in my life and told me I would do well to call on him when making decisions. It seems he was always around in my early years but less and less as time passed by.  Today I read his obituary. Please join me in a …

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