Newsletter

Last week’s newsletter featured Fadeout, which is one of my best-selling routines. I really appreciate all of you purchasing it. It validated my decision to keep it semi-exclusive.

During last month’s Dealer Showcases I sold out of one of my best-selling items and had to make more. Since the cost of making them had risen the dilemma was; do I raise the price or keep the price the same and stop selling to distributors?

The past few weeks I have been visiting a Jewelry Factory in New Jersey that is owned by a friend of mine.

What is this Spirit Cut? Why have we not heard of this before? Where can we get it? Why did it cost $15 in 1999?

As a special gift to all my purchasers you can get a pdf of the three-page silhouette for free. Just download it, print it and then you will have to do a little arts and crafts to put it together.

In 1976 during Dai Vernon’s “Farewell Lecture Tour” he had manufactured some spinning coins to offer as souvenirs of the event.

As I was driving to Long Island on Thursday to Tony Spina’s funeral it occurred to me that in an odd coincidence, I was about to do the Wand Ceremony for him that eight years earlier I did for Jack Ferero who was his partner at Tannen’s.

After last week’s opening show several people told me that the “The Jesus guy” fooled the hell out of them. His real name is Bernardo Sedlacek from Brazil and I predict that he will become very popular in the world of card magic.

I spent the last week in Batavia, New York which is commonly referred to as, “The Arm Pit of The World.”

If you are not familiar with it. The basic effect is that you tear a corner off a selected card, it vanishes and then appears in an impossible location.