The Winner of the Name the Mascot Contest Named — Friends Change

What’s My Name?

There?s been a ton of tension around the Inside Magic studios here in Mystic Hollow, Michigan. Those we once considered friends and family have turned into utter animals with large knife-like fingernails (claws) as each pushed for their favorite name for the Inside Magic Mascot.

Well, now we have a winner. We have no friends or appropriate working relationships but frankly, the relationships were kind of shallow and fake.

Paw Lawton?s selections were all in some manner based on bartenders he had known and to whom he owed money.

Missy Rochelle picked just one name and I am guessing she probably sent it in herself. I won?t publish it because: 1) as an employee, she?s not eligible to win Card College Volume One; and 2) it?s either blatantly pornographic or a horrible double entendre.

Kathleen Lakeland selected a couple of good ones and in fact the winner came from her final five.

The winner, after much deliberation, comes from Mickey Ayers and incorporates both the rich history of magic and the dignity every magician deserves ? plus it is something the audience never sees.


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Latest Magic News – January 17, 2004

Sir Paul McCartney continues to receive press in the UK for the fracas he allegedly began while watching the David Blaine in a Box stunt. The Telegraph ? which seemed to take great joy in attacking Mr. Blaine during the 44 day of endurance ? reports the law enforcement officers want to speak with Sir Paul.

Read the story of the original incident as reported by the Telegraph here.

Read the story of impending questioning here.

Read the Mirror?s slightly more ?blue version? of the story here.

David Copperfield has the publicity thing down cold. As we?ve watched him traverse the Southern U.S., we?ve appreciated how he focuses on a different effect for virtually every newspaper article. Today, The Tennessean, quotes Mr. Copperfield on why the Lottery Ticket effect is so special to him:

”?His big dream was to win the…
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