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The routine: The jokers are shown. Two cards are selected and put beneath the jokers. The magician relates a story of how everything is in doubt and that nothing exists unless the spectator believes it does. The magician is then berated for ripping off Decartes. The magician loses the...

Every red-blooded-American-and-not-communist loves Penn and Teller. You're not a communist, are you? Damn communists. Damn French...communists...people who are...communist... french...people...

FACT: If you want to get any respect at school or college doing magic, pull the selected, signed card out of your pants. Trust me. Trust me.

Penn and Teller only expose their own material and B.S., like the A-holes passing themselves off as real psychics. The only magicians who hate them are the old french purists who want everything perfect. If you're against Penn or Teller, I hate you. I don't care who you are. You could be...

The single best notebooks on the market are called Moleskines. They are more than perfect for a magic notebook. That's what I've been using for years. They're pretty expensive (around 15 bucks), but I gaurentee that it will be one of the single greatest investments anyone ever makes...

A lot of people seem pissed about the age thing. Let me say this. You don't have to be old to innovate, in fact most innovators reach their peak in their twenties. However, when it comes to knowing how to perform, how to handle other people--the audience--how to maintian a level of...

You know who's allowed to have lecture notes? Ricky Jay. If you're not Ricky Jay and you're not dead, then you may not have lecture notes. Ricky Jay deserves more props than he's given, even in the event that he gets all the props in the world. Ricky Jay IS the Chuck Norris of Magic.

May I also just say: You do not (in my humble opinion) know a trick--that is, you have not really learned it--until you have perfected it in front of your mirror with your flawless patter, then performed it for some drunk A-hole who saw how it was done and told everyone in the room, and then...

Jeez, now that I think about it, I haven't honestly seen anything new since the trilogy. Everything else is old hat. Personally, I think there's plenty of material on the market. What I want to see now is innovations in presentation. If you do that, I will be impressed. Prove it's...

Yeah, well, you'll occaisonally get those prodigies who graduate college when they're twelve. But answer this: Can you think of anyone else (that is, who's actually relased material that's good)?

Showmanship, damnit! If I may add something: As a young magician, one might be able to do False Sybil in .3 seconds, locate a card from behind the back with no breaks, and make a signed selection appear in the spectator's tighty-whities, but this amounts to nothing if one doesn't have the...

I understand if you're uncomfortable discussing it, but I was wondering how much more money one can make when performing at corporate parties, rather than at places like bars or bar-mitzvahs. Is it worth trying to sell my soul to these rich fathers at my bar-mitzvah gigs?

Try this. Do it again, only switch the mothod. So do a pass instead of a double lift to get the card on top.

Any tips for the revolution cut part of False Sybil?

Mmm... I don't do Youtube. I perform for real people, not video cameras. Also, who here is a layman? I assumed that most people here are learned enough in the noble art of ilusion to have heard of a sandwich effect.

All I know if is the bizzare twist and cros twist. Is there a bizzare vanish also?

Happens to me almost every time.

So does Sankey swab the deck? What did ever happen to him? I begin to wonder and then remember how much I like The Trilogy.

P.H. is Paul Harris. Illusion is an effect where the selection is sandwiched between two cards, proved to still be there, and then magically vanished. Hoo boy. And magically appears face-up in the deck. Huzzah. As for overdone, I think an appearance and vanish in 2 phases is not too much...

That makes sense. Jay Sankey is an elf. Of course he is.