Roy Moved to New Hospital

Published reports on the Associated Press as well as The San Francisco Chronicle say Roy Horn has been moved from the University Medical Center in Las Vegas to an undisclosed hospital in the Los Angeles area.

Roy was brought to the University Medical Center immediately after being attacked by a tiger during a show at the Mirage on October 3^rd. There have been very few details released about Roy?s condition other than to say he is ?improving? and that his recovery will be a long one.

The Mirage would not provide further details about Roy?s new location at the request of his family. We continue to pray for Roy as he fights through this apparently long process back.

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Any Deck Any Time – Incredible

The neat thing about this effect is the visual manner in which the cards instantly change places. Four blank cards are fairly shown and set on the table face down. Four face cards are counted and with a wave of the hand, they instantly turn blank and the blank cards are turned over to show that they have now turned to the four face cards. No cards are added or taken away. It looks like real magic.

One of the advantages of buying magic over the web is that no one knows you did it. I mean, the kind folks at Penguin Magic could search their database and find that someone with my id ordered TranspOzition but they?d have to do some looking. On the other hand, if you used the same money to buy a 3-day pass to a site that showed real pizza delivery girls delivering real pizza to people who really ordered pizza, you?d likely be busted by some sort of Internet sting-operation.

You?d be shamed from the proper circles of society, your name would be put on the blacklist at all pizza outlets, puppets would call you ?mommy? and try to snuggle with you while you sleep on a bus terminal bench. I don?t know if you?d really get blacklisted at pizza outlets, I was just being dramatic.

So, back to the review.

Let?s talk technical for a second. I like the instant download as a method of teaching me magic. I like the idea that I can rewind the video instructions over and over until I learn what I need to know. And in the case of TranspOzition, I needed the instructional video to be replayed often.…
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He’s Not the Messiah

Scott Johnson of the Anchorage Daily News is rather kind to the emaciated “Christ-Looking Magician”.

He writes, “Blaine is an elitist magician snob” (Scott Johnson with the Anchorage Daily News) . Mr. Johnson begins his article by apologizing to “all the real magicians out there for concentrating my efforts on David Blaine . . . . I’m sure you’ll at least enjoy the ridicule.”

Mr. Johnson analyzes Blaine’s place in the world of entertainment thusly:

Oh no, what he’s doing isn’t entertainment. Be very clear about that. It’s so much deeper. Just listen to this spiel:

“This has been one of the most inspirational experiences of my life,” Blaine told the crowd that turned out to cheer his last few hours of isolation above London. “I have learned more in that box than I have learned in years. I have learned how strong we are as human beings.”

(Translation to language used on Planet Blaine: “I am so great.”)

He added: “Most importantly, I…
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