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Two of the routines I used to enjoy performing during the last century… when dinosaurs roamed the earth were the Sympathetic Matchboxes and the Acrobatic Matchbox.

I currently open my stage act with a series of optical illusions as I discuss how your brain lies to you.

You probably know that I love routines with logical multiple outs and even created and released a few.

I know that some of you were thinking that this newsletter was going to be about baseball since the Astros are in the World Series.

Fr. Cyprian was my friend. I first met him in the 1970s and we immediately got along. I think it was because of our warped sense of humor.

As most of you know I have an affinity towards gambling themed routines and card productions. It is as close as a close-up magician can get to show off their skill and be appreciated for the difficulty of what they are supposed to be doing.

Throughout my life I met several psychics and fortune tellers and what struck me was that there was a significant difference between them and mentalists or magicians doing mental magic.

Over the past few years, I offered you some exclusive Dom Paolino magic products that he released in the 1970s and 80s under the P. Cinimod brand. All but one of them sold out immediately.

As promised, here is a new release.

If you watched the tutorial for David Roth’s Portable Hole routine that I made, you saw me trace the origins of the hole concept in popular culture and even included a video of its first appearance in a cartoon.