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Ted M

Looks like they're a Murphy's reseller.

The same Castle Notebooks (2,4,5) are the ones that show as available at Penguin.

Ted M

Just protect yourself by not sending funds via "friends and family". I've had to use Paypal's dispute process a handful of times over the years, including with the above-mentioned Chad Kidd. It works. Just don't throw away that protection. It makes no sense to me how many total strangers h...

Ted M

It's pretty simple: If someone isn't your friend or family member, don't use "Friends/Family" mode in Paypal.

Ted M

Mental note: Mark and Dani DaOrtiz prefer the same method. Also, the farther you have to reach to retrieve the card/deck, the easier it is to glimpse the underside. When far, it can be quite low. See Dani's EMC 2010 appearance where he "reads the marks" on the back of a deck borrowed from ...

Ted M

Thank you Maigret.

I look forward to reading this tonight.

Ted M

Just a heads up. I last bought some Aviators in 2019. Far from being their old pliable, cheapy selves, they were much thicker than Bicycle/Bee stock. The nearest comparison I can make is that they actually mirrored the old Alladin Packs; thick with a very slippery finish. If you need the pliability...

Ted M

Dennis, I can feel empathy for you as a false accusation victim even though you have not proven your case to me through the judge-and-jury system, AND I can do so WITHOUT trying to shut down all the victims of sexual assault who express their pain when that system does not offer them meaningful reco...

Ted M

> My point is that neither you nor I know how many genuine victims are denied justice. How many? Here are some numbers, from the US DOJ: https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/rsarp00.pdf When 200,000+ victims of rape, attempted rape, and sexual assault PER YEAR don't even report their case to the poli...

Ted M

> Of course, The System is not perfect. It is bound to fail on occasion. But that is equally true for all kinds of cases. Oh really? So the judge-and-jury system fails equally as many sexual abuse victims as it does victims of false accusation? I think those numbers are vastly different. I think the...

Ted M

It's well established that in the particular context under discussion, the judge-and-jury system has failed countless victims of sexual abuse, over and over again. In this particular context, the judge-and-jury system has historically been stacked against victims, and has enabled their abusers. In m...

Ted M

Ted M

Frank reprinted the books at a different printer, one who made pads of paper! That's why the pages all fall out of the later printings. I love this magic publishing lore. Richard, after completing Greater Magic, would you consider writing a book (or at least a really, really long article) about mag...

Ted M

I've been reading the July issue on my tablet and was looking around the house today for the paper issue, but couldn't find it. Then... BAM! It arrived in my mailbox! Almost like somebody granted my silent wish. Am I an outlier, or are other folks' paper issues just arriving now as well? I'm not cer...

Ted M

A review at Penguin offers these clues: https://www.penguinmagic.com/p/S8022 TOTALLY examinable. People could examine these for HOURS (magicians too) without finding out the secret. It's THAT good. ... Clever. I don't often see marked decks like this. Daniel Madison has one called "Blood" ...

Ted M

The two best threads on the Cafe are kind of buried: Dan Harlan's brilliant equivoque thread where he does an equivoque in "real time" in the thread with cafe posters; and Tomas Bloomberg's terrific coincidence card trick which is contained within an esoteric probability thread. There's a...

Ted M

Richard Kaufman wrote:I'm not sure what font the original Greater Magic uses. It might be Times Roman, which I dislike.

Hmm... WhatTheFont suggests it's some version of Caslon, known for its comfortable readability...

Ted M

You clearly like this typeface and have used it in many projects. I'm curious why you favor it?

What was the original Greater Magic typeface? As a reader, I find it an extremely comfortable one, though I recognize that it feels a bit old-fashioned today.

Ted M

Whoa!

That's very, very exciting.

Uh, will I be able to afford to buy this?

Ted M

Has Britain run out of talent and needs to import it now?

(I love Topas, btw.)

Ted M

Is Topas British?

I'm confused about the basic premise of the show...

Ted M

Rats.

Montana?

Ted M

...to Madison, WI?

Ted M

What's afoot at CARC? Banner atop many/most(?) pages at their website:

We are preparing for Conjuring Arts 2.0! Currently closed for appointments through 2023.

Example: https://conjuringarts.org/category/gibeciere/

Ted M

Magic Speaker Series: Thurston the Great and How History Fools Us with Jim Steinmeyer March 2, 2022 @ 7 PM EST on Zoom The story of Howard Thurston, America’s greatest magician from 1908 to 1936, presents a number of intriguing puzzles. The people who knew him best seemed to have been completely dec...

Ted M

Reminder: This show is today, at 3 PM eastern US time (2 PM US central for me).

Ted M

I'm in Wisconsin, so this looks like 2 PM for me in the US Central time zone on Sun Jan 30.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll be buying a ticket.

Ted M

Per Andi Gladwin, it's the same effects, redescribed and re-illustrated. $60, published by Vanishing Inc. (Limited pre-release here at MagiFest)

Ted M

Copyright controls the act of making copies of a work. It controls the right to copy/reproduce.

It's not relevant to Spellbinder, who is not reproducing any artwork.

Ted M

Signed by Johann "Dr J" Nepomuk Hofzinser, no doubt.

I hope it matches the signature on my basketball...

Ted M

Would you like to buy some Sea Monkeys too?

Ted M

I think my points boil down to these two:

1) Expecting something valuable for a $1 add-on is folly.

2) Expecting Copperfield, aloft in the clouds atop his mountain of money, to care about such folly is also folly.

PS: I love David Mitchell's writing.

Ted M

He's a major household-name celebrity who signs "free" autographs after folks have bought $100 show tickets.

He's not the usual book author who's flattered to pretend they're a celebrity when signing books.

Perspective.

Ted M

Ad copy from my youth. Maybe folks feeling jilted by Copperfield should've read more comic books when young. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0CTa1yXQAEW4xY.jpg ...or learned from buying Sea Monkeys...or ordering from magic catalogs. Where is people's basic "too-good-to-be-true" radar?

Ted M

One might think folks would look at the $1 price difference of the "signed" vs unsigned book and draw a reasonable conclusion about the included "signature." How is this not an obvious thing? Does any reasonable person think they're getting a real LeBron James-signed basketball a...

Ted M

> Fans don't want to feel cheated... I don't understand who can feel cheated when they only paid an extra dollar for the "signature"? Who seriously would expect that bazillionaire David Copperfield would spend his time manually signing a giant number of bookplates so he can pocket a few ce...

Ted M

And, since it's been all silence from the Copperfield camp, can we assume that they know about and are Ok with the autopenned signatures being sold this way? Given that the autopenned signatures are being sold as a $1 add-on to the main item, the book itself, I don't see Copperfield caring very muc...

Ted M

I'm pretty surprised that Copperfield would choose to mass-market his (ostensible) autograph for a measly dollar. How does that help him, when even minor cast members from long-canceled TV shows can command fifty clams for an autograph at a fan convention? That seems like very strange market positio...

Ted M

Exactly overlapping or not, it's directly competing.

When did SAM make that choice to move to January?

Ted M

For how long was the SAM convention held in the summer?

How recently did it switch to compete directly with MagiFest in January?

Ted M

I hear you. The main point I was aiming to make was that first amendment jurisprudence wasn't very far along at the time, so the effort to mount those arguments definitely wouldn't have been expended on such a poor test case as radio psychics.

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