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I have been performing for people for close to 20 years and performing magic in general for 20 years. It was only in the first few years that I would get stumped. I didn't have the chops or the world experiance. Working five to seven gigs a week and co hosting a radio talk show for years honed...

I normally use an eraser and sometimes rubber cement to life the ink off of cards.

You can get the 1300 page tarbell course for $30 US as a PDF from Lybrary

There is an effect in the July Linking Ring that uses the ad cards.

I have fully loaded and it is a very strong effect. It is one of those I use as a closer to get the gig or the one I hold out for the VIP table. It's my "I don't do this for just anyone" effect. The one thing i would point for with fully loaded is it only works with bikes out of the box. You can...

Now i feel odd because the first three things I learned were non-card effects.

I love the Mark Wilson book. It has some of the best basic sponge moves out there. I also like the single Tarbell book and the Amateur Magician's Hand book. Those three will give you a solid, well rounded base in magic. Let you get a taste for everything.

ok on the side note. It was the Dragonlance books that got me interested in magic. Growing up the only magic I ever saw the on TV with Doug Henning and David Copperfield. I read that section where Raistlin did the coin effects for the gully dwarves and thought "That would be cool to be able to...

the second one had issues on the Kindle. something in the formatting

It was and still is used as proof of the devine. It has been well established though out history.

While twitter is a tool to be used for sure, you're right nothing beats direct marketing. I mean look at some people twitter profile. They are following hundreds of people. How do people expect to get any useful info from twitter when there is so much coming at them. Right now I'm following 50...

That is why I keep a running list of one liners and responses. Leave nothing to chance but look like the reaction is off the cuff.

the IBM local clubs are called a Ring. The SAM local clubs are Assemblies.

That's just it. If you know what you are going to do before you start then the chance of something going wrong drops to nil. If you rehearse and work on your routines then you know your outs and will know where to go if that small chance of something going wrong goes. I couldn't fathom walking...

I understand it. I have been in magic since 1993. I met my mentor when I was 14 years old. I worked on my act til I was almost 18 before anyone who wasn't a magician saw it. I'll spend a month working on the script for on effect. When I learn something new, I'll spend months with it. Learning...

i'm willing to bet that the second type of magician thinks that what they have seen David Blaine do is all made up there on the spot. Also those types film themselves and put it on youtube no matter how bad it is. I film my walk through and my practice. The walk through/stage rehearsal is only...

I know it seems like the book Magic and Showmanship by Nelms gets tossed around on the magician forums. It's like one of those books that magicians say you should read ad no one ever does, but that book and the write up on David Ben in the November 1996 Linking Ring is what got me into script...

Also the next one I know of is at the end of Aug in Dallas. It is the T.A.O.M. one.

The first thing I learned was Crazy Man's Handcuffs. My mentor taught it to me three weeks after I started asking him to teach me. It was a month before I did it for him, another two months before I did it for the Ring.

The uhh and Umm and lip smacking thing drives me nuts. My father was a radio man til the day he died. The one thing he taught me is you don't need to fill that silence everytime. Sometimes that pause builds a little tension. A moment for the audience to lean in. many times it's not what you say...