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No Jokes This Time — I’m Sorry for Being a Bone-head

Okay, I?m an idiot. Often we run the fake Errors and Omissions and make light of how stupid the editorial staff (Kathleen Lakeland, Missy Rochelle and me) are. But in the last week, I have made real errors and omissions and I apologize.

In my article on the ABC News article on Kirby VanBurch?s comments concerning the three stages of anger in tigers, some readers thought I gave the Branson illusionist too much credit.

Mr. VanBurch claimed that even though he was not present at the show and even though he hasn?t seen video of the horrible event, he knew what was going through the tiger?s mind and that somehow Roy Horn improperly handled the event.

This was an important lesson to me. In the still quiet place of my Internet studio here in the Mystic Hollow, Michigan home of Inside Magic, sometimes I figure no one reads what I write. Sometimes I figure people read it but think I am too sarcastic or dry in my humor.

Now I know that I was not sarcastic enough and certainly did not push the envelope of my saber-like (sometimes, butter knife-like) wit.

The point of my story was that ABC News was strangely writing an old story with little more than the baseless ravings of some magician in …
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November 22nd, 2003 | Category: Magic News | Leave a comment

Card College Volume One Is Great – Repeat After Me

I?ve said it before and I?ll say it again, ?I love to repeat myself.? Given a choice between working here at the cat saddle and tack shop aligning the stirrup heights for some rodent to ride on a Tabby, I?d pick re-reviewing something I?ve already reviewed.

Well, not really. I’ve reviewed Roberto Giobbi’s Card College Series and I’ve reviewed Chriss Wasshuber’s Lybrary.com but I’ve never reviewed them at the same time. It was sort of like when I was running around a corner with an open jar of peanut butter and ran into a woman who was running the opposite direction with a chocolate candy bar and we hit each other. We made an interesting discovery.

We discovered the interestingtaste that comes from thecombination of chocolate, peanut butter, shattered glass, blood and sinew. Well, it’s not exactly like that.

Plus, I’m still paying the judgment from the lawsuit where the woman alleged it was unsafe for me to run around blind corners with an open glass jar.

When I first started Quinlan Magic years ago, there was only Card College Volumes One and Two. I bought the usual sample size of three books and sold them all within days ? before I even had a chance to read them. I figured they must be pretty good if they sold so quickly.

I tried to re-order from my supplier but he had no copies. I tried to work through another jobber (coincidentally, this was the name of my first record album in the U.S., ?Working Through Another Jobber? went platinum in the Bahamas but did not do well here ? I ran out of payola…
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November 22nd, 2003 | Category: Magic Stories | Leave a comment