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The Unbelievable Truth
or Magic teaches us how to lie without guilt

I was watching an interview with Penn and Teller in which they talked about one of my favourite routines of theirs, Polyester in Excelsis Deo more commonly known as The Magic of Polyester and which I always thought was called Man of the (Synthetic) Cloth.

I guess if anything this is because magic tricks don’t actually need names unless you’re going to publish it and want people to be able to find it easily to buy it. Penn and Teller don’t publish their work so this never comes up I guess. I’ll probably talk about the publishing mindset at some point in the future. But this isn’t about that.

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Star Trick
or Talk to the Hand Wave

I’ve been watching a lot of Star Trek recently; not only the new series, Discovery, but also the ill fated series Enterprise. Star Trek: Enterprise was set a century before the original series and as such had the burden of retrofitting the existing canon into its plot.

I lack the encyclopedic knowledge that many people think I possess but there are three episodes which in conjunction have a fascinating quality which a lot of magicians would do well to pay attention to.

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Taking a Step Back

So you might have come here looking for a magician (and you found one) but if you were looking to hire a magician, I’m not the one.

For the last couple of years I’ve been having trouble with my health which has put me on indefinite sick leave from work, and whilst I can still perform like I used to I require a kind of entourage with the knowledge to assist should things go sideways for me. This has made doing paid gigs a pretty much impossible feat but I can still perform with the clubs I’m in, since I’ll have a number of friends backstage to keep an eye on me, and occasionally I join in on the Bifrost Cabaret at Nineworlds, again because they have a super attentive backstage crew.

One day it might be nice to host my own show, since I could bring a crew with me in case it all goes pear shaped, but that’s a task for the future.

For now this blog is here to share my thoughts on various magical matters, and the world in general. maybe one day I’ll even have tricks to release. Who knows?