Alright, it’s time for a Jerry Odds and Ends again like the old days. It’s time for me also to poke my head out from under the rock I’ve been hiding under ever since my colossal fuckup the day before Magifest, but enough about that for now. (Sorry we keep dragging it out, but accountability is important to us.)
The Castle Wallet, by Simon Lipkin coming from the 1914, just might be the exception to Unworking Wallets.
Sure, you may have an EDC peek wallet already. But is it an RFID-blocking pop-up style card holder wallet?
And most importantly… does it double as an impression device?
Oh dear, is that a no I hear? You may want this as a sidekick to your Jax or Passenger or whatever the hell then.
Teaser that’s way too big and I can’t figure out how to resize it on WordPress below:
The online magic store Hocus Pocus is closing, which hurts as it was one of the stores we were planning to review in our comprehensive masterpost eventually, alongside Stevens Magic Emporium and other such underappreciated stores. More on that later.
Here’s the statement they just put out:
Lloyd Barnes is leaving Murphy’s though! So that’s pretty awesome! Good for him and fuck Murphy’s! (This too is foreshadowing a future article, but more on that later.) This could be the start of a new beginning between me and him/Craig Petty! All could be forgiven! Change (the lenticular disaster from 2015) and Lux could be forgotten! Craig just has to leave next…
Update from the Editor: A beloved reader has emailed to recommend a different course of action. They will be called members of the Magic Oval Current 100 Club instead. After all, eventually something better will come out, but currently these are 100% the best options. Besides the Intercessor by Gaetan Bloom for corner to impossible location. Jerry fucked up leaving that out.
And now we come to the meaning of the title.
Magic Oval Tens are going to be a very special award given only to the best of the best method for a particular trick.
Breakthrough by Johannes Mengel, if the last Odds and Ends didn’t make that clear enough, is our first choice.
Breakthrough is the best of the best methods for penetrating a can with a coin or tab.
If you have it and know of other methods, you should certainly agree.
We will not grant these awards lightly. These will only be given out when we are sure that we have determined that a method truly is the best.
So like, who the fuck knows when we’ll next do this, unless we just want to be lazy and give Angle Z by Daniel Madison the Magic Oval Ten award for corner to impossible location since it obviously deserves it.
But yeah, that’s a new feature. It’ll be in the Et cetera once there’s more than one. (I guess technically there’s two now, but I wasn’t supposed to do that with Angle Z so we’ll see how it goes.)
Alright, fine, fine, we’ll discuss the Jack Rhodes video about AI and how it will impact the future of magic.
Nah, just kidding. Enough people have done that.
Social magicians are uniquely suited to survive this situation better than any others, of course. AI can definitely never replace social magic.
Wait, what’s that? People are swearing off sex with real people in favor of relationships with AI?
Well, fuck if I know then.
Peace!