Inside Magic

Anyone who has read Inside Magic before knows that I am a vain person. I care ? seemingly ? about only me. I don?t really care if others don?t like other magicians, but if they don?t like me, I get sad. Really, I get petulant.

So when I saw Online Visions and Little Egypt, I figured you would stop liking me and start linking to another. It wouldn?t be like a break-up in high school. After all, in high school we?d still see each other walking down the hall to our classes or at parties. In this virtual world, I?d never see you again. You?d walk off with Little Egypt or Online Visions and I?d wonder why you never called any more.

The writing on these two sites is so good and the care about magic is so clear that I can?t imagine why you would stay with Inside Magic and with me. You?re foolish. These guys are the ones to stick with. They love magic and they write so gooder than me.

Online-Visions is the kind of place you could spend minutes or hours and the only difference would be the quantity of the information not the quality. I have checked out each link available and found all to be outstanding. The writing by the contributing magicians is more than fantastic, it is substantive. (I looked that one up in a thesaurus). (Hey, what?s another word for ?thesaurus??)

I really am a critical person. I promise, if there was a flaw in the writing on Online-Vision, I?d make it the center-piece of this article. I?d rip it up and down until it looked like a doorway for a small truck. But I could…
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?Hello, I?m Tim, and I have a problem.?

I waited for the obligatory response.

It came.

?Hi, Tim!? the crowd was responsive and full.

This was my first time before the Magic Anonymous. I?d heard about it, sure, we all have. We never thought we needed it though. We could stop at any time. Or so we thought. Sure, we could drive right by a magic shop ? if we wanted to. We could not buy something we?ll never use at a magic convention ? but there are things we need.

?I?m a magicholic,? I admitted. If it wasn?t for the microphone in front of my sweating face, I doubt the crowd would have heard it but they did. I knew this was the right thing to do.

There was silence. They knew that I had the same problem as them ? why else would I be there? Sure, there were the multi-addicted folks in the crowd: the magic/juggling/clowning/ventriloquist folks but they all shared my problem; our problem.

I started my tale of woe. There were nods from some of the members. They?d been where I was. They?d lived the hell that I?d lived: buying fanning cards even though they?d never done a fan act ever; purchasing the blueprints and plans for tricks they?d never build. And of course, the tell-tale sign of Magic Addiction: buying thousands of decks of cards (both trick and normal) to the point where they could no longer tell which decks were gimmicked and which were normal.

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