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I've never performed 2-card monte before, but I do give you credit for knowing that a little subtlety goes a long way. With a proper mix of technique, showmanship, and understanding of theatrical motivation you can get away with murder right under someone's nose.

Because performance theory is for babies, am I right? Honestly, give me one good reason why someone shouldn't spend the $30 to buy Fundamentals. I have yet to hear a single person explain to me a convincing argument why this is not the best beginner's guide to mentalism. They're currently...

What the hell are you asking us for? Why not go onto Google and find a surfing club in your area? This is the exact reason I object to people pleading for an off-topic section. It lowers the average IQ of any forum it's installed in by about 20 points.

It's pop-psychology, New Age crap that has nothing to do with anything. The only think it accomplishes is motivating me to continue killing my liver.

I hate it when people try to be deep and use pop-psychology.

You're missing the forest for the trees.

Word of advice. Don't try to play armchair psychologist when someone who actually studies psychology is in the room. Especially not when you're just trying to get out of a rhetorical corner you painted yourself into.

Then you don't know what the shut-eye market is. And that's not even taking into account that your definition leaves plenty of room for the approaches that you are condemning.

You can't just make up causal relationships whenever it's convenient for you.

The problem with making numbers up is that they're all bull****. Not only can you make them whatever you want them to be, you can make them mean whatever you want them to. I have a mentor who caters specifically to the skeptic crowd, and even though he's in semi-retirement he's out-earning...

How often do you think that's actually going to happen? How often do you think that's actually going to happen? If you're actually trying to portray real magic, why are you doing card tricks? None of the answers will change the fact that your doomsday prophecies are made of equal parts...

First of all, I hope you realize that it's insane to tell a business to stop doing things that are working. Second, why the hell would I tell audiences where to find the damn DVDs in the first place? Third, I can state with absolute confidence that these hypothetical doomsday prophecies of...

Well, when they start retroactively deleting posts to settle a grudge match, I'm willing to look the other way when it comes to a little civil disobedience. But that's just the kind of ******* I am.

It's Lybrary dot com. And there a ton of mentalism books and DVDs out there. My advice is to go to Lybrary dot com and start with Bob Cassidy's Fundamentals. There is no better beginner's guide to mentalism than that.

Consider that magic has been advertising learning fast for a century or so. Consider also that the novice wants to see results quickly. It motivates them to continue. I personally am of the school of thought that a lot of conventional wisdom about learning new skills is bull****. Less is...

I'll send a card. If you're all this terrified of getting called out by the hypothetical scenario of some boogey man spectator who happened to catch a Fox TV special and is going to tell everyone how your flavor-of-the-month trick is done, then you aren't very good magicians. There I said it...

And maybe giant sea otters will attack Boston too. So what?

You made a big damn deal out of it, you started ranting about how it's destroying magic... You worry about it happening because it can affect you. I'm not worried, because it won't affect me. Besides, you said it would happen to me, therefor I can say it to you with a clean conscience. If you...

Well... it'll happen to you. I take a slightly more proactive approach. And I like how you say, "at first." As if I've never thought about this before in my life.

And yet I still don't give a ****. Care to know why?