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Odds and Ends #8: The Burgle Ass Effect
Category: fluffRead more: Odds and Ends #8: The Burgle Ass EffectWe’re big fans of David Berglas and Mark Elsdon here. So when Murphy’s Magic and Craig Petty released promo for a seemingly perfect version of ACAAN, with a glowing endorsement from Mr. Elsdon, we were very excited! There’s just one tiny problem… That’s not just once, either. The entire page was loaded with this typo.…
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Read more: Odds and Ends #4: The Fig One
So Mark Elsdon featured us last Sunday in his premium newsletter, A Metabolic Fig. What the hell? Thank you, Mark! A Metabolic Fig is an excellent newsletter that provides the best of magic weekly. That he would think an article of ours was worth featuring means a great deal. It was even enough to counteract…
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Odds and Ends #3
Category: fluffRead more: Odds and Ends #3The response to The World’s Greatest Trick Review has been overwhelming. Thank you! We assure you, this won’t be our last review of something controversial or outlandish. Has anyone checked on Joseph, reviewer of Joshua Jay’s Balance, who posted his full name and address? Do we know if he was in prison for 20 years…
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Read more: Odds and Ends #2
We’ll have an extra post for you coming over the next week, and it is a doozy. Ironically, it also ideally won’t be of much use to anyone but professionals. But, we felt someone had to do this, and it was expensive as hell, so you’ll have to make do. Speaking of expensive things, Brian…
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Read more: Odds and Ends #1
JISM #4: Wrap-Up, the thrilling conclusion (for now) to the not-a-trilogy, will be coming tomorrow. Here’s some lighter fare. We’re gonna be switching to Wednesday and Saturday after tomorrow. That means there will be an extra post this coming week on Wednesday. Occasionally bonus posts not unlike this one will publish on Sunday, but mostly…
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