Inside Magic

We receive a bunch of emails everyday. Two stood out in stark contrast¹ to each other and both asked questions. The first site asked:

What if there was a place and a group of people that existed to meet the special needs of folks who perform for kids and families? What if there was a place to motivate you, educate you and point you in the right direction? What if there was a place that helped person after person build successful performance careers? What if all of this really existed? A place so good that your competitors won’t tell you they attend because they want to keep all the resources for themselves.

This first email really intrigued us. It sounded like something our good friend and, in our humble opinion, the finest kid-show performer on the face of the earth, Trixie Bond² might be interested in hearing about. The click through revealed that not only did Ms. Bond know about this show, she was a featured performer and instructor.

So that was a very nice email and well worth the click-through.

The second email asked:

What if there was a place and a group of @%@($ that existed to meet the &%*@ needs of &^%$# who perform *&^%$^##@# all night long?³ . . . .

I think you get the point. The second email was spam. It wasn’t even accurate. I went to the site (late at night when everyone was asleep) and there was no magic taught. In fact, it appeared to be a site about helping the poor. There were pictures of poor men and women who couldn’t afford food or clothing. They all looked hungry and skinny and must have been cold without any clothes.

I was moved to pity but because I didn’t think I could learn any magic tricks, I left the website and thought how lucky I was not to be in that situation. I guess I should have donated money to them, but I couldn’t stand the pitiful images.

Getting back to the first email.

Visit http://www.kidabra.com/ and see what I am talking about. The Convention will begin on August 20, 2003 in Gatlinburg, Tennessee and has a staff scheduled that truly is the who’s who among the kid-show performers. If you do kid-shows, if you have kids, you were once were a kid, if you can spell kid, if you are a young goat⁴, you need to check out this site.

As we get closer to the convention, we’ll keep you up to date on the conclave and the entertainers scheduled to appear. If you want more direct information, there even have a link to register for their newsletter at: …
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