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Not to be rude, but I think that's rather missing the point.

Those of you who read my blog probably remember last year I put up a 3-part shopping guide for magicians to add new stuff to their wishlists. One of the sites I reference was ThinkGeek. Well, there's still time before Christmas, so if you're looking for a Dickensian holiday (I still dream of...

Everything looks smooth, but the jump cuts were distracting, you never give enough time to let things sink in, and without an audience I have no idea what's going on half the time.

I don't know many of the tenets of Islam, but I do know from experience that a fight with religious people is a lose/lose scenario. Don't fight your parents on this, just adapt. Focus on coins for the next few months. You said you have Bobo's. So it's a pirated PDF, whatever, it's something...

Alternatively you can tell him that most YouTube tutorials are made by a bunch of lazy wankers who couldn't convince a toddler to believe in Santa Claus. You get what you pay for.

How long have you been performing for live audiences?

For the same reason a musician learns about the history of music, a filmmaker about the history of film. Understanding the history of it makes you better at it because it expands your comprehension and is the only way you can eventually innovate. On no less than 3 separate occasions, I thought...

If it is indeed a troll, what exactly did he prove? That I love what I do and will patiently help people who show an interest in it? Yeah, he sure showed me.

What for? Things seem to be going well. If this is your idea of escalation, I'd hate to see you when people start talking about politics.

I difficult situation, but not insurmountable. I've heard worse. Let me start by saying there's no way you can win an argument with your parents over this. Take the indirect approach instead, but don't neglect school in the process. You'll want to go to the library and see what they...

They probably want you to finish school first, which they're right about.

I have an ebook on the subject. PM if interested.

I don't give up on people until they show they have zero interest in learning. At which point they can go eat a bag of dicks. Well, that's going to change. I won't lie, I used to torrent material. When I was penniless and suffocating in student loan debt (only one of those two has changed...

Mostly pirated? It's a long road ahead.

What books do you have?

Which you're not going to learn there. Exposure forums do not attract the best of the best because they have better things to do with their time. You'll hit the glass ceiling of what they can teach you before the year is over. There are others as well. Craig Browning for example has been...

I do not have an account on either one, because if I did, I would be the smartest person in the room. I don't like that. Those forums are a cesspool of wannabes and nevergonnabes. They're talentless hacks engaged in a circlejerk of self-delusion. On their best day, not one person there can...

And that will happen much faster when you ditch the boat anchor of those other forums and stop learning your magic from talentless hacks who have never performed for anything besides their webcams.

Aside from the fact that they're not supposed to do that? The fact that it's mostly populated by hacks and wannabes and learning from them is going to make you just as useless as they are. I've said it before and I'll say it again: YouTube tutorials are to learning magic what a Swiss army...

Quite pleased with that are you? You're not going to make a lot of friends here. Also, are you going to answer my question or not?