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If you'll pardon the expression, these fan-imagined rivalries always give me a case of the roflcopter. His reign is over? We're talking about a guy who teaches card flourishes, not Benito Mussolini.

Steerpike was the archvillain of The Gormenghast Novels. My favorite literary antagonist.

In order: 1. My conception of busking has been to stake out a spot and draw a crowd. The performer is stationary aside from occassionally rotating to a higher traffic area. Street magic in the traditional sense is essentially parlor magic in an outdoor setting. 2. I really don't have a...

I don't consider him an entertainer. First of all, his performance sucked. Since my word may not sound like much, my sister is a stage actress and she thought it was the most shameful overacting she'd ever seen in her life. And why would a ghost guess at what was in a box and then give you a...

Merlin is a strolling performer. He works mostly on small groups of two to four. His specialty is in finding couples and charming the women until they're cooing and hanging all over their dates. At that point, the guy taking his lady out for the night is all too happy to discreetly hand...

I've had this conversation before with Rick Maue and on that we agree. However, until a better term comes up, it serves our purposes. And I don't believe it doesn't support my point. As I said, it's a formalization of a paradigm that already existed. The trouble is that it's hard to sum...

It's the only example you guys ever use. It's either about the Charlier, or about the manicure section. Incidentally, regarding the manicure section, some of us actually take men's style seriously. I seriously doubt that you had the ability to do perching, the impossible closer, and the Hot...

Every skeptic on the planet. Criss said before the show even aired that he would go after anybody claiming to speak with the dead. What did you expect?

That depends entirely on how many people are willing to listen. It really is politics. Everybody want to take a side, but nobody wants to be the poor shmuck who has to explain any of it. As I said before, you have to consider the nature of modern advertisement to begin with. I hate to...

To hear you tell it, the Charlier is the only thing taught on the DVD. Is tha the best argument you can come up with? Seriously? And as to your claim that you could do all those moves on the spot after seeing them, I seriously doubt that.

Fair enough. I don't subscribe to many magazines for financial reasons, so you'll forgive me for gaps in my knowledge of interviews. But you don't need a camera to get around it. You and I both know that. Which is I reject the definition that Blaine-style street magic exists only on...

Enough to sustain himself it would seem Knew that had to come up sooner or later. To be brutally honest, I firmly believe those that ridicule Blaine's minimalist scripting and say that it's bad presentation don't get it. But he tries to define it in terms of venue, much as you would...

I would like to point out that I created the scripting not just to allay suspicion of the deck, but also to enhance the persona I project while performing. I have an interest the philosophy of the Japanese tea ceremony, and so everything in my routines is carefully scripted and choreographed...

I squoze in a few minutes a day for about a week. I've been writing it in my head for a while now though.

He loves to point fingers, but offers no real solution. I can't stand people like that. For Swiss, it is easier to demonize a small handful of magicians than to affect positive change in hundreds more. To put it better: I'm siding with Tom on this. Everybody has an inner demon that...

Exactly. You have to be the one to do it! And custom cards don't present certain possiblities when creating a concept? If they do it's your fault. You're not very creative if you can't think of ways that you or someone else could use them. So it's great, and it's not. Okay then...

That means you're the only person supporting Swiss who actually wants to hear a conflicting opinion. People kept saying that using a Ghost deck is stupid because people will think it's a trick deck. So I combined a little of my humor with some Kenton Knepper-esque suggestion, and some...

And it's my belief from experience that the people who hate custom cards and want other people to stop using them are failing to realize that it's their fault and not the deck's. I've made my offer multiple times to give everyone my script for dispelling negative suspicions about Ghost deck...

Because the measure of a magician is his ability to fool other magicians, right? And that would accomplish what, exactly? Watch Supernatural and get back to me when you have a clue. They need somebody to crap on to feel better about themselves. Granted, I feel better about myself...

A little defensive there. I wasn't attacking you. I was saying that Mr. Swiss was insulting his own intelligence by writing what is effectively a hate letter to David Blaine and Brad Christian. It's well-written, but it's bogged down by its own agenda. This ought to be good. Give me...