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If that's the best response you can come up with to my criticisms, you're only proving me right. Not that I need the help...

Actually, I'm getting pretty close. Not just because he's a bad magician, but because his response to criticism is, "*****, I'm flawless!" and then continues to make all the same mistakes over and over again.

Jesus, another one of these... I'm off to go get drunk and start some fights now. Anyone care to join me?

I find it amusing that everyone babbles on about sharing things and open communication on this forum, but the instant I step in and disagree, I'm told that my opinions are not welcome here. What is today's lesson kids? Conform! Don't disagree, because that's mean and rude. Jesus...

What's wrong with the pop-up move as an ending?

No, tragic is when two nuns and a priest sold out a group of refugees in Darfur to a rival tribe, and allowed said rival tribe to burn down and bulldoze a building with the refugees still in it. I'm just saying these quizzes are trite and wore out their welcome a long time ago. God, you people...

I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised. Typically, these threads turn into nothing but, "Buy more Theory 11 products, noob!!" I'm going to put my hat in for Xtreme Beginnerz as well, and also put a vote in for Jeff McBride's Art of Card Manipulation. If you've been buying up 1-on-1's...

And I use a key card to kick the living hell out of most people's presentations of Stigmata on a regular basis. Sure, some effects just work better than others, but it's all for nothing if you can't be entertaining while doing it.

Unless you're offering a fistful of doobies, I don't see that happening.

You can't whack to it.

Actually, I've heard a number of English people pronounce it mine-o-taur. Reason being that the original Greek word translates as "bull of Minos" so it is technically closer to how it was probably pronounced by the Greeks. The more common pronunciation of min-o-taur I think is a fairly recent...

Kid, are you listening or not? In video, the audio is 50% of the package. I am a filmmaker! I know more about this than you do! No amount of pretty visuals can save bad audio. An audience does not forgive bad sound. This is a fact backed up by a century of corroborative evidence in the...

To elaborate on that a little more, flash paper is treated chemically so that it contains traces of magnesium. The manufacturing process is extraordinarily dangerous if you don't have a professional lab and equipment, so put that thought out of your head right now. When exposed to heat, flash...

Honestly, my sleights are pretty standard. I end with a card-in-envelope that I adapted from a Paul Green routine. Four phases, very straightforward, but I'm very meticulous about the timing and I use the power of names and specifically the True Name as the framework.

What you've come upon is a big part of the repertoir of Kenton Knepper, Luke Jermay, and Docc Hilford. I first started working with this concept from Docc Hilford's Ball and Tube booklet. From there, I started branching out more starting with Miracles of Suggestion. Kenton's Mystery by...

Which raises the question of why you would want to.

Oh, let's see. Lose the cheesy intro. You are not The Outer Limits. Title cards will be fine. It's a bad sign when the cards are mic'ed better than you. Sleight of hand was too sloppy and you seemed desperate to rush through and get to the punchline. The journey wasn't interesting at...

I never saw the appeal to these things. Congratulations! Your personality is so run-of-the-mill that we can easily categorize you as a pale imitation of another, more interesting person!

Here we go again. To use your own obtuse analogy, I find it more akin to saying, "Coke with Lime really sucked," while proceeding to buy Vanilla Coke.

My point is actually that if you want to perform to show off sleight of hand, then you're not a magician, you're a manipulation artist. Call yourself what you are.