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	<title>Escamoteurettes</title>
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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>
	<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Ouch.</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2008/06/18/ouch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<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>
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		<title>Phone sax.</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2008/02/12/phone-sax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<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>
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		<title>Deep impact.</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2008/02/11/deep-impact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<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>
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		<title>Ninety degrees.</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2008/02/11/ninety-degrees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2008/02/11/ninety-degrees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<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>
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		<title>Blackface Mentalism</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2008/01/31/blackface-mentalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2008/01/31/blackface-mentalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<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>
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		<title>Tap. Tap. Tap.</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/06/28/tap-tap-tap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/06/28/tap-tap-tap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<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>
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		<title>The Lonely Bull</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/03/31/the-lonely-bull/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy 72nd birthday, Herb. schtinkmallier 



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		<title>Don&#8217;t look, Ethel.</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/03/14/dont-look-ethel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/03/14/dont-look-ethel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<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>
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		<title>Short and sweet.</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/03/11/short-and-sweet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/03/11/short-and-sweet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 05:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<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>
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		<title>The nicest guy in rock and roll.</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/03/10/the-nicest-guy-in-rock-and-roll/</link>
		<comments>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/03/10/the-nicest-guy-in-rock-and-roll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<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>
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		<title>Redefining &#8220;red hot&#8221; in &#8220;Red Hot Cold Reading&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/03/06/redefining-red-hot-in-red-hot-cold-readings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/03/06/redefining-red-hot-in-red-hot-cold-readings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<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>
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		<title>Strip tease.</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/03/01/strip-tease/</link>
		<comments>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/03/01/strip-tease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<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>
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		<title>&#8220;Something selfless for the society.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/02/28/something-selfless-for-the-society/</link>
		<comments>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/02/28/something-selfless-for-the-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<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>
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		<title>Do You Believe in Magic?</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/01/26/do-you-believe-in-magic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/01/26/do-you-believe-in-magic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<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>
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		<title>Rumors of my death.</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/01/26/rumors-of-my-death/</link>
		<comments>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2007/01/26/rumors-of-my-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<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>
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		<title>Tommy Wonder</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2006/06/27/tommy-wonder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2006/06/27/tommy-wonder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tommy Wonder
29 November 1953 - 26 June 2006 schtinkmallier 
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		<title>David Blaine, or magician?</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2006/06/19/david-blaine-or-magician/</link>
		<comments>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2006/06/19/david-blaine-or-magician/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<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>
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		<title>Pregnant pause.</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2006/06/02/pregnant-pause/</link>
		<comments>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2006/06/02/pregnant-pause/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This just in: schtinkmallier 

Illusionist DAVID COPPERFIELD is planning to go one better than rival DAVID BLAINE by impregnating a woman live onstage.
The magician will carry out the stunt in Germany, without - he insists - even touching the volunteer.
Copperfield tells PageSix.com, &#8220;There is a great deal of new territory to conquer. I&#8217;m going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Blaine goes ape.</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2006/05/16/david-blaine-goes-ape/</link>
		<comments>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2006/05/16/david-blaine-goes-ape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2006 14:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For some people, failing drives them to drink. For David Blaine, however&#8230;there&#8217;s this: schtinkmallier 
David Blaine, who failed to break the world record for holding his breath underwater last week, has announced his next stunt will be living among wild animals in the jungle. The 33-year-old was released from a New York City hospital last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free is good.</title>
		<link>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2006/05/12/free/</link>
		<comments>http://www.escamoteurettes.com/blog/2006/05/12/free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 14:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LeBlanc</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you will be familiar with this quote: schtinkmallier 
â€œNote also that you must have none of your trinkets wanting, least you be put to a nonplus: besides it behoveth you to be mindful whereabout you go in every trick lest you mistake and so discredit the Art.â€
&#8211;The Art of Jvgling or Legerdemaineâ€™ 1614
Like [...]]]></description>
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