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For my 18th Birthday, my father gave me a card with the following saying in it: “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” That would have been sage advice for a father to give his son as he headed off for a three year stint with a mudshow circus.
But Pop stopped drinking two days before my Birthday and had the shakes bad. I read the card to say, “Keep your fiend clothes in your enema’s closet.”
I had been living by that doctrine for years and years before I realized it made no sense. When my Pop told me what he intended to write, we had a great laugh. Oh, did we laugh.
Here I had been stealing my enemies clothes and sticking them in a small cabinet filled with Fleet Enemas. I had thought it was a religious ritual or something.
You’re probably wondering what the heck that has to do with today’s magic news. Well, only this: you can’t believe everything you read or think you’ve read. That’s why our editors stayed up all night performing “fact checking” on each story.
We owe it to you, as the reader, to be spared the ridiculous anti-magician propaganda that is taking this country by storm. Contrary to the anti-magician press, most practitioners are very well paid men and women who have one act that they stick with until it is perfected over years of repetition; never purchasing “the latest trick.”
Magicians are not, contrary to the rag reports, struggling to survive, eating Ramen Noodles cooked over Sterno stolen from the buffet table in the banquet hall of their last show. Almost none of the magicians I know have ever eaten their livestock ? by choice.
Most of the magicians in our clubs are not fanatical about the art, wouldn’t sell blood to buy lecture notes, have slept during a magic convention, could care less about learning…
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