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News to me. On the opposite side of the coin, there's not a whole lot of showmanship on display from sleight of hand purists either. At least, if the videos I've seen posted are any indication.

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The trouble is that the movements leading up to and following the change are very smooth and languid. The sudden snap looks out of place. Adapting this would also depend on the context in which you perform it. In some cases, it would be perfectly plausible, even preferable to do the move when...

Yes, yes, your grammar and vocabulary are perfectly cromulent and we must embiggen our grasp of the language. Whatever, dude.

I'd love to see manipulation routines with more variety to them, so I'm going to take this opportunity to present this challenge to all you manipulation artists out there. I won't be competing because I'm not a flourish or manipulation expert, but I want to see some genuine talent go...

Obscure pop culture reference. I'm in a jolly mood tonight. Did I ask?

At this point, I can call you whatever I want. Whatever Brian Tudor is up to these days.

Huh. A reasonably lucid post only partly screwed up with your trite schtick. Didn't see that coming. Here's something I take particular issue with. Magician, please! You're talking to the wrong guy about this. The paranormal is still big business. The shut-eye market is extremely...

shlama 'alikh! ana Darihush malek malkaya paresh rabba. lehan fana yad'at. As long as you're taking this opportunity to continue expounding on your painfully unfunny joke, I'll take this opportunity to point everyone to an old, much better thread that I wrote.

As soon as I read this part, I had a feeling that this was all some sort of joke by a guy with too much time on his hands and an overestimation of his own writing skills. As is usually the case, I was right. Dude, satire is supposed to be subtle. This was about as subtle as a screwdriver to...

I'm curious. If you would indulge me for a second, I have a question. Can you qualify that statement beyond the tissue-thin excuses you just gave?

There are a lot of professional actors in the world. They don't seem to have a problem basing their entire careers on lying to millions of people around the world. Why do magicians have this problem? It's because we take ourselves too goddamn seriously. There is a difference between...

You want to develop that thought?

It's cute how magicians take themselves so damn seriously. Just embrace the fact that magician is merely a fancy term for "professional liar." We're actors. What, you didn't actually think that Lawrence Olivier was a Roman aristocrat or a former Nazi, did you? That Marlon Brando actually did...

Candy Man was indeed a movie invention. Slenderman was a creation from the Something Awful forums in a contest to see who could come up with a new urban legend. Pomegranate actually. Among my favorite Halloween soundtracks are Nox Arcana's various albums. Midnight Syndicate to a lesser...

It was a joke, relax.

Do you want to develop that thought? Because if you want actual discussion, I'm going to need more than sentence fragments.

http://pittandpendulum.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-real-fake-thing.html Halloween season is coming up. Get your mythos ready.

People arguing with and contradicting a seasoned veteran. When did this place turn into the Magic Cafe?

You have to accept the fact that practice is going to get boring after a while. It's why most people never become good at anything: they don't have the patience.