Take this, [friend]. May it serve you well.
~The Beatles, Revolution 9
Johannes Mengel is re-releasing his Breakthrough system for penetration through a soda can’s bottom, which is awesome! There’s a lot more to the project now than when he released it over a decade ago and it immediately proved to be the greatest method for the plot ever.
Meanwhile, everyone apparently has selective amnesia. Even people who should really know better are acting as if this is totally new and fresh and wasn’t released in 2014 already. It’s to the point where I’m fearing Mark Elsdon doesn’t even know. (This is a joke, I would be extremely surprised if he was unaware.)
Either way though, it hasn’t been available for a long time and it’s awesome to see it showing up independently now.
It is available for 74.95 EUR currently but the price will be going up to 125 EUR come February, so I recommend checking it out now if you’re into penetrating the bottom of a soda can with a tab entirely impromptu with nothing more than the can itself being used and things like that. While this is a bit much, Johannes provides a one-on-one video session for each person who purchases which helps justify the price a bit more, along with an active locked community for customers to interact and brainstorm in. Plus, you get over a dozen variations, including a couple that use a gimmick and allow the trick to become even more visual.
Get it if you dare at breakthroughtrick.com.
Here at the Magic Oval, we try to do things a little differently. Okay, very differently. What other free blog has sponsored a major convention, resulting in this hilarious juxtaposition of professional logos and one not-so-professional logo?
So yeah.
Anyway, we wanted to do something else unprecedented and trailblazing. Another thing that not only has no magic blog ever done, but no blog whatsoever has done to our knowledge.
These are fraught times throughout the world, and ever since this place got started (in fact, before the first post launched even) we’ve been itching rather badly to share our views about it all. Of course, this would be inappropriate to add to the posts, which are sacred and will always remain free of political opinions.
So why am I bringing this up?
There is now a dedicated page in the “Et cetera” section (about time it included more than a currently broken curated posts module and the privacy policy, eh?) for expressions of our political views.
The Political Containment Page, or PCP for short. I’ll take a gallon myself.
There probably won’t be too many surprises. After all, Eli Bosnick once called us (to paraphrase) “the woke Jerx”. (Yes, we let it go to our heads.) You can probably guess what it’s going to look like, roughly. But if you want to know for sure where we stand on certain issues, you can go ahead and check it out anyway. Otherwise, stay away and remain in quasi-peaceful apolitical quasi-bliss while reading.
To be clear, it’s not a place for screeds or lengthy essays. It just lays out our political views in vague simplistic terms (for the sake of your comprehension without having to Google a ton of words) and names a couple causes we feel strongly about.
Seriously, Jerry? Again? A-fuckin’-gain?
We should’ve known a hit piece from the ever-so-gaffe-prone Jerry would be wrong, but the focus groups loved it, we loved it, everyone thought it was alright to push without consulting the man himself first in this one case. (Normally we would reach out beforehand and have done so, which has led to the pre-publication trashing of more than one hit piece after the person in question has a chance to explain.)
As you are probably aware by now, we proved to be very very wrong.
Anyway, I only bring this up again right now because the aforementioned Eli Bosnick wisely and eloquently pointed out in an email that our response so far is pretty weak and we haven’t given any public indication of what our plans for further contrition are.
Suffice to say that the plans are in the works. The current primary delay is more or less just to do with getting Mr. G*rza’s approval to do whatever we end up doing.
This has been a lesson for the blog at large and quite the growing pain, but we’ll push through. I just hope Mr. G*rza is able to as well.
Should we start doing polls? Print out the post and mail it completed to my PO box to let us know.
Make an X here for yes: -> ⭕️
Make an X here for maybe: -> ⭕️
Make an X here for no: -> ⭕️
Shit, wait, I don’t have a PO box for the Oval yet. I just get everything that’s for reviewing shipped to our public-facing guy; who you guys ironically haven’t figured out the name of yet.
Until next time, then. Seeya.