Month: May 2021

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Purse Strings
or Magic on a Shoestring Budget

At the second this goes live I will just have finished giving a sort of impromptu lecture on the Alakazam discord theatre. I did this as a favour to the store, which is nice, and my friend Wayne who does a lot of promo work for them.

I couldn’t possibly have done it to raise my own profile to ahead of my upcoming book release later this year (hopefully).

If rather than coming here from that lecture you’re one of my regular readers (whom frankly I didn’t realise I had) consider this a little free lesson in how I perform off the clock.

The subject of the lecture is my Purse Strings routine and in the off chance that someone enjoyed it but needed to jog their memory about some part of it, I present this article as a companion piece.

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or Magic on a Shoestring Budget”

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Nervous Energy
or Casting Basic Fireballs

I was trying to explain this to a friend of mine recently over messenger and my inability to stay on topic basically fucked it up for her. Probably sounded like nonsense. I say recently… When I wrote this paragraph and some of what’s below it was still 2019 and it felt like the world would soon be my oyster, forgetting that oysters are one of the main vectors for hepatitis and sure enough we would descend into a plague.

So anyway I’m going to have a crack at explaining it now.

This is how to turn problematic nervous energy into useful performing energy, and cast a few fireballs while you’re at it. It’s worth noting that while this works for me, it won’t necessarily work for anyone else. There is always the possibility that I’m just fucked up and accidentally found a glitch in my own emotional hardware.

But hey, maybe you can break your brain too!

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or Casting Basic Fireballs”

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Returning from Hiatus
or Did I leave the oven on?

It’s been a while since I posted here. You may have thought I was dead, a few times I thought I wasn’t far off, but I made it through in the end.

I’ve been through some personal changes, we’ve all been through a global coronavirus epidemic, and for a while keeping a magic blog seemed a little pointless in the grand scheme of things.

But now I’m vaccinated¹ and things are beginning to tend towards normality I’ve once again learned an important lesson: pointless bullshit is the only thing that makes life worth living.

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or Did I leave the oven on?”