Mon dieu. This post has nothing to do with politics and/or religion per se; just the parallels between them and current magic discussions. There now — you may safely proceed. I’d like to say I hate political discourse, but that wouldn’t be accurate. I love discussing politics. And religion too, believe it or not. In […]

If you’re lucky, you remember the first time you saw real magic. I mean the kind of magic that twisted your brain in knots to the point you’d cry, were it not for the fact you were smiling so hard. For me, it was like the first precipitous drop on the Zephyr at the Ponchartrain […]

“You took that out of context!” Ever hear that? Ever say that to someone else? If I were to ask you to name something often taken out of context, chances are pretty good you’d mention the Bible, and rightfully so. (As a Christian, know that I am on record as stating as absolute fact that […]

On the surface, secrets seem to be the most important thing in magic. It’s a brave man who would argue against the importance of secrets, but I’d suggest to you that secrets do not occupy the number one spot on the list of what’s most important in the world of magic. What is magic? I’ll […]

Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away (called “My Youth”), my best friend’s dad bought a new toy and he wanted to show it to me. It was called a Betamax, and it was magic incarnate. Here was a machine, big and heavy, that took in a plastic cartridge and allowed you to […]

Since this blog is just getting started, and I just spent some time answering a question from someone just getting into this bizarre little world of magic, I’ll combine the two into this post. Getting started in magic — whether close-up, stage, or anything in between — is best begun in the same manner as […]

My first blog would have been in 1993, on :::cough::: AOL :::cough::: — only it wasn’t called a blog, it was called an online journal. The idea was the same, though. It was the technology that enabled posting that has changed so dramatically. Over the years I’ve created, fed, and subsequently killed a number of […]