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This is why I never liked my school newspaper. I was in one for a year and the editor either gave me crap for not writing articles that would interest her and her friends, or they butchered everything I wrote to dumb it down and enforce a completely arbitrary word limit (that apparently existed...

It's the "if I had to" that bugs me. Magicians get so attached to their card tricks that they treat everything else like a bloody chore.

Probably, but largely irrelevant. You could speak entirely in Shakespearean sonnets that could move a jaded war veteran to tears, and it would all be for nothing if you just barged your way into a conversation where you're not wanted. Many magicians make the mistake of assuming that everyone...

Which tells me nothing useful. See, this is why people should just put the cards down and exercise a little creative thinking.

I see Card College as being for the specialists. I have about 10 card tricks I really like and regularly perform, most of which can be learned in Royal Road. Any others I know get whipped out maybe a couple times a year for a special occasion. So yeah. I based most of my card education on...

Is it any better than your card magic?

That's what all of the name-dropped magicians are about though. Amazing how people will take the exact same information from a guy selling it for 50 bucks but will dismiss it as abuse when they get it for free. Reminds me a bit of Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary" and specifically...

Little hot under the collar?

That's a gross over-simplification and you know it. Nobody is denying that. You're missing the point by continuing to hammer away at that inconsequential non sequitor. Get over yourself.

Three things. First of all, I form a friendship with my clients that is utterly alien to most magicians I've met. I hate to sound like a broken record, but I'm a populist among the magic crowd. Second, it's spelled Megadeth. With only 1 a. Don't insult Dave Mustaine, he'll kill your...

You just can't seem to get past the idea of telling stories. Whenever anyone brings up the idea of doing something original in a presentation, you default to that as if it's the only conceivable answer. Why? Is the idea of thinking creatively that foreign to you people that this is the best...

I am the Shadowlander.

If you're presenting material from Pre-Thoughts, then I would keep the theme of the show grounded in the concept of precognizance. If you have to deviate from the formula, you need to have a damn good reason.

Which is a completely pompous thing to say because that was the point the threadstarter was communicating. Put the damn cards down, rub two brain cells together, and come up with something interesting or at least remotely entertaining. And that's exactly what he did. Kind of makes you a...

Let he who has never committed a sin of style cast the first stone. Which is a distinction most people don't think about.

Darwin Ortiz doesn't perform for a living either. Conflict is better than complacency and mediocrity. If you're not prepared to say something intelligent, don't open your mouth in the first place. Anyway, I am sick to death of card tricks. It's all anyone ever wants to do, and it's the same...

No. In fact, I've been told it's spooky that I seem to glide instead of walk and nobody can hear my footfalls, even when I'm wearing combat boots on a tile floor in an empty hallway.

Consider also that doing card tricks is also a way to feed one's gluttony as there is no shortage of new card tricks to buy. Ever. They'll find a way. Confronting these facts isn't easy on people. To return to my analysis of the Shadow, Robert Bly once said that when you look into the...

I try to keep the heat off my hands by keeping their movement uncomplicated. You should see my hands in real life, though. My left middle finger and thumb are nearly half an inch longer than their right hand counterparts and the other left fingers are just over a quarter-inch longer. Add in...

I'll try to give the Cliff's Notes version as this is kind of a complex topic. Carl Jung theorized that the Shadow is the part of our unconscious mind that acts as the repository for all aspects of ourselves that we repress. In the darkness and alienation of the Shadow, these traits gradually...