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Robert77

Damn, that's sad. I grew up watching them. They are landmarks.

Robert77

mrgoat wrote:The above two posts show the need for a LIKE button here!

This post made me reach for the Like button, but then...DOH!

Robert77

A few replies: To the person who posted last: I have heard that some posts about the article were deleted from the Magic Cafe. I can assure you that no one from the AMA Board of Directors or Magic Castle management asked for that to be done. I don’t know why you would imagine that we haven’t reache...

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If the paywall stops you, you can go in to your browser cookies and delete any cookie related to the latimes and that should get you past the paywall one time until the cookies reset.

Robert77

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-12-04/magic-castle-los-angeles-allegations-sexual-misconduct-racism

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Straight from the Horse's Mouth - Garret & Mike Close on why it was a fooler https://www.patreon.com/posts/abracababble-56-43691718?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare Thank you for that link, I found it most informative. Not about how Garrett d...

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Robert77 wrote:
Jack Shalom wrote:Ah, that's a game changer.

In fact, neither the coins nor the bill are included. Not a problem at all, just saying.

Instructions suggest US quarters and a dollar bill.

Robert77

Thanks to this forum I was alerted to the existence of these new tricks. Instructions that come with it are in Japanese, and even though illustrated are not adequate for me to interpret. The box says the instructions in English are online, I'm looking them up. ...found the instructions. Indeed the l...

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Jack Shalom wrote:Ah, that's a game changer.

In fact, neither the coins nor the bill are included. Not a problem at all, just saying.

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Michael Close wrote:DVD means Digital Versatile Disc.

You're welcome.

Thanks, I needed that

Robert77

It goes on to tell how Vernon is bailed out by Harlan England, an acquaintance who Vernon had meet a couple of weeks earlier. England gives Vernon $3000 which Vernon is reluctant to accept. Vernon spends $20, returns the rest, and then broke, hitchhikes back to New York. That would be one heck of a...

Robert77

That was nice Brad! I liked your presentation style. Professional, no jokes about "Oh I see you're wearing that great French clothiers line, J.C. Pennay", etc.

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Bill Mullins wrote:The Social Security Administration publishes the "Social Security Death Index", which lists this information for everyone who has a SSN after they die.

So I can, for example, look up a dead relative if I have their SSN?

Robert77

Copy that. (After losing access to bunch of purchases when an on-line service went out of business, I'm excessively paranoid about virtual materials these days) What/how many are the virtual materials, and can they be downloaded for storage onto a more permanent media? Or do they require they be pl...

Robert77

BTW, The Jerx made a blog post on the 15th about this kickstarter. I found it amusing.

Robert77

When I was very young and saw the ad for "Nickels to Dimes" on the back of a comic book, I assumed it was real, not a trick. Recently, I've been told it is a trick and there's no real profit to be made. I assume there are people who will read the Kickstarter ad and assume it is for real m...

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Leonard Hevia wrote:To answer Robert's question, Taylor paid BJ something like $75,000 for Vernon's cups. It was detailed in a past Genii article a number of years ago.

Leonard, thanks! That's fascinating.

Robert77

I grew up with these cups on my mind. Had my set of Morissey "Vernon style mini cups". Missed out on Danny Dew cups initially and only later got a set from Pete Biro, along with some other interesting sets (from other places). I have a slight cup fetish. So I have to ask: what order of mag...

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"In the non-magic world, I saw the Cirque "MJ" show which was horrible. The first Cirque show I saw was "O," which was possibly the greatest show I have ever seen. However the MJ show appeared to simply appropriate the brand. The stage felt more like a high-school theatre t...

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It's unclear; must the vanished coin be marked, if so, how?

Robert77

One of those examples of whether you wonder if the poster is insane, or just being a jerk. Sincerely, it's really hard to tell.

Robert77

If they are copper, just using them, or letting them sit (unstacked) will eventually cause a patina, which is another word for oxidation, aka. "rust". It will take months or years though. I would not apply any chemicals in an effort to speed it up. If you do let them sit though, keep them ...

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Thank god. I was weakening

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Well, the Roger Pierre book has always seemed to me to be a sort of amateur (authors) experiment. For one thing, it's hand written. I don't have a copy but I'd bet money that the printing in it is not a printed font, but (to be generous), calligraphy. As such it's oversize, which means the book woul...

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Brad, despite my post about formatting of your messages, I like your post about Shins performances and your thoughts on how social media magic (abbreviated here as SSM) could be considered another 'type' of magic. And I'm one of those who would not have a particularly high opinion of SMM, not that s...

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You know how to make a small fortune in the video game business right?

Start with a large one.

Robert77

Nostalgia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiSIQzwIPzQ

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Not sure how to reconcile that ^ ... with this : The venue for what he does is Instagram. ^ THAT’S an insult. What you see here relates to my comment above: using #*)*@)@&()! social media software on phone and tablets encourages people to write in sound bites. THEY know what they meant, but bec...

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Kent, my phone capitalizes what it chooses to capitalize. If you’re going to focus on the typography and not the content of the message then our priorties are clearly different and I’m not sure we will have much to discuss. . I was just surfing the thread until I hit this quote. Then a follow up po...

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Now down another $1k to $6,000. Maybe he has some Xmas bills to pay.

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I am amazed on a weekly basis at some of the prices people ask for items. A prime example was a guy on ebay who was asking $1600 for the Juan Tamariz book Mnemonica. I got in contact with him and said that the book new normally sells for about $60. He replied and said i was wrong and there was 2 co...

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There's a fellow on eBay who's been trying to sell a collection of admittedly rare Bizarre Magic books by Tony Andruzzi for some years now. For $13,000. That's for the Scroll, the Negromicon, and Daemon's Diary. I corresponded with him, suggesting his price is a bit high, but he was confident. It ha...

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Richard Kaufman wrote:Johnny died weeks ago. A great pity.

Dec. 17, so, 1 week ago when I posted it. It takes that long for the news to publish such things.

Robert77

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Johnny-Fox-sword-swallower-and-magician-dies-at-12453226.php

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Robert77 Wrote: "Well for one thing there's not an objective way to rate/grade/understand magic. Unless you're a magician." But could not the same thing be said about music - that there's not an objective way to rate/grade/understand music unless you're a musician? But that fact would not...

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, how can magic not be considered an art? Well for one thing there's not an objective way to rate/grade/understand magic. Unless you're a magician. I have an inexpensive print of Jerome's hanging on my hallway wall. https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/sothebys/04/106204/H0046-L00502526.jpg Now...

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In the December issue there's a note that says: For the next three issues we will continue to remember Eugene Burger by running three videos he prepared for columns he was unable to complete before his death. I've looked around the Table of Contents of the December issue and have missed finding this...

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And let's not forget: There are two kinds of people; those who separate people into groups, and those who don't.

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This is true for all of the "arts." Most practitioners are not artists--that designation applies only to a select few. Using the example of Albert Goshman, given above, I can make a good argument that he was an artist (as a magician). Slydini was an artist. Rene Lavand was an artist. Juan...

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I'm curious as to what makes magic a craft, and say, painting, an art?

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