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	<description>Escamoteur is French for conjurer. Tourettes...well, you know what tourettes is. These are my occasional outbursts involving the weird little world of magic and mentalism. Mobile phone friendly.</description>
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		<title>And you can quote him on that.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Kaufman, the Chief Genii at Genii Magazine, is good for any number of outstanding quotes going back decades. Here&#8217;s one that&#8217;s mere hours old: schtinkmallier 
It doesn&#8217;t matter how much you think about magic, or practice, in isolation: nothing makes you a performer but working for real people on a regular basis.
&#8211;Richard Kaufman

The commercial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2008/12/25/and-you-can-quote-him-on-that/</link>
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		<title>Two good men, R.I.P.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Welcome friends of Sam Bacchiocchi. I see many of you Googled Sam&#8217;s passing and found your way here. Before you read my brief note about Sam, please take a moment to read this entire note to honor the life of a friend who passed away this morning battling the same type of disease. schtinkmallier [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2008/12/21/two-good-men-rip/</link>
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		<title>A quick note.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Escamoteurettes came into the world on October 1, 2004. Weblogging was fairly young and magic blogging was downright embryonic. I began writing this thing because it was easier than than finding an old priest and a young priest.  schtinkmallier 
&#8220;The power of Max compells you. The power of Max compells you&#8230;&#8221;
(Sorry. That was borderline [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2008/12/20/a-quick-note/</link>
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		<title>Ouch.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My chest hurts. schtinkmallier 
At my age, that&#8217;s not the best way to start polite conversation, but Casa Escamoteurettes isn&#8217;t exactly known for its politeness, now is it. Just to settle the nerves of the three of you I may have concerned, the pain isn&#8217;t due to cardiac what-not. I finished listening to Michael Close&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2008/06/18/ouch/</link>
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		<title>Phone sax.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve noticed Casa Escamoteurettes is visited quite a bit by people sporting web-enabled mobile devices. This is good, so long as you higher-tech visitors are not trying to drive while reading this blog; you run the risk of crashing into that idiot turning in front of you who doesn&#8217;t see you because she&#8217;s busy tapping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2008/02/12/phone-sax/</link>
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		<title>Deep impact.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, a quote: schtinkmallier 
 &#8220;&#8230; well what I did was that I was the first one to just go out and just play steel guitar concerts and when I did it I didn’t just do it in the United States, I did it in England, and everybody kept on saying &#8221; What are you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2008/02/11/deep-impact/</link>
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		<title>Ninety degrees.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I put the finishing touches on another Opus Escamoteurettes (which is to say, a blog post too long to read in one sitting in the head, but too short to bother killing a real tree in order to publish it properly) I want to share a reference with you in hopes you will consider [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2008/02/11/ninety-degrees/</link>
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		<title>Blackface Mentalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post has been a long time coming. schtinkmallier 
But first, some lyrics:
Wheel about, an&#8217; turn about, an&#8217; do jis so;
Eb&#8217;ry time I wheel about, I jump Jim Crow.
&#8211; Thomas Dartmouth &#8220;Daddy&#8221; Rice, Jump Jim Crow



While Lewis Hallam is believed by some to be the first white comedian to perform in blackface (that was in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2008/01/31/blackface-mentalism/</link>
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		<title>Tap. Tap. Tap.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought about attempting to break my own record at how long I can go without peeping, but what&#8217;s the fun in that? So, instead, I thought I&#8217;d try an experiment that may interest some of you. schtinkmallier 
Suppose you could learn what are, for lack of any better way to describe them, the &#8220;secrets&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/06/28/tap-tap-tap/</link>
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		<title>The Lonely Bull</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy 72nd birthday, Herb. schtinkmallier 



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		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/03/31/the-lonely-bull/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t look, Ethel.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, a quote: schtinkmallier 
Here he comes, boogie-dy, boogie-dy
There he goes, boogie-dy, boogie-dy
And he ain&#8217;t wearin&#8217; no clothes
Oh yes, they call him the streak
Fastest thing on two feet
He&#8217;s just as proud as he can be
Of his anatomy
He&#8217;s gonna give us a peek
Oh yes, they call him the streak
He likes to show off his physique
If there&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/03/14/dont-look-ethel/</link>
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		<title>Short and sweet.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can think of several reasons why I like Richard Kaufman. This evening one of those reasons decussated the unspoken reason I have yet to view the motion picture The Prestige: schtinkmallier 
The editing and twisting of the narrative wasn&#8217;t hard to follow, but watching a film over two hours long about two asshole magicians [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/03/11/short-and-sweet/</link>
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		<title>The nicest guy in rock and roll.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brad Delp
June 12, 1951 – March 9, 2007 schtinkmallier 
Remembering Brad Delp
Delp remembered as generous, unassuming star
UPDATE: I&#8217;m going to add this quote, currently the home page of the web site for the band Boston. I&#8217;m posting it here because it&#8217;s not likely to stay there, but it should remain visible:
As you all know by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/03/10/the-nicest-guy-in-rock-and-roll/</link>
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		<title>Redefining &#8220;red hot&#8221; in &#8220;Red Hot Cold Reading&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heard the one about the re-release of &#8220;Red Hot Cold Reading&#8221;, one of the seminal cold reading books, by Herb Dewey and Thomas K. Saville?  schtinkmallier 
Well, I have good news and bad news. Which do you want first? Okay, the good news.
The good news is, &#8220;Red Hot Cold Reading&#8221; was re-released.
The bad news? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/03/06/redefining-red-hot-in-red-hot-cold-readings/</link>
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		<title>Strip tease.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 90s there were not many web sites dedicated to magic. As I recall, we were all (nearly) on a first-name basis. Rhett Bryson, Christian V. Andersen, Jeff Lindsay, Dodd Vickers and, of course, the granddaddy of them all, Richard Robinson&#8217;s All Magic site &#8212; those are some of the names from the links [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/03/01/strip-tease/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Something selfless for the society.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was informed that I should do &#8220;something selfless for the society.&#8221;  schtinkmallier 
Now, I&#8217;m not entirely sure which &#8220;society&#8221; to which this individual refers. I decided to choose magic. I hope you&#8217;ll forgive me. (Or thank me. Your choice, really.)
So. With ladybug tricks suddenly gaining some traction, I thought I&#8217;d offer this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/02/28/something-selfless-for-the-society/</link>
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		<title>Do You Believe in Magic?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like the web of which it is part, Youtube continues to be a source of both irritation and information. Here&#8217;s some of the information side of things. schtinkmallier 
Daniel Roth Productions, in partnership with Movie Makers International, will release later this year a full length documentary titled, &#8220;Do You Believe in Magic?&#8221; based on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/01/26/do-you-believe-in-magic/</link>
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		<title>Rumors of my death.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I suppose it would be responsible of me to at least say something to explain the nearly seven month gap between the notice of the death of that wonderful human being who was Tommy Wonder, and this 2007 inaugural post. And I would if I were a responsible-type adult. schtinkmallier 
Okay, I was serving time. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/01/26/rumors-of-my-death/</link>
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		<title>Tommy Wonder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tommy Wonder
29 November 1953 - 26 June 2006 schtinkmallier 
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		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2006/06/27/tommy-wonder/</link>
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		<title>David Blaine, or magician?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you think normal people seek when they think of our weirdness? Do they think they want to see a &#8220;magician&#8221; or a &#8220;mentalist&#8221;? Or do they search for something else? schtinkmallier 
Here are some search request estimates that combine results from Google, MSN, and Yahoo! to give you an idea what it is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2006/06/19/david-blaine-or-magician/</link>
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