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| The Incredible Mark Cannon |
First, we want to apologize for the delay in publishing this review of Michigan Magic Day (“MMD”). We could blame the delay on many things but the truth is we had to pawn the Inside Magic computer to get enough money to buy back some organs we had put up as collateral the last time we needed quick cash. Your state or country may be different, but Michigan does not regulate pawn shops’ preservation of organ tissue left as collateral on ‘consumer loans.’
This lack of regulation is not a big deal if you’re leaving a guitar or video equipment because you expect they’ll be returned – if you can raise the cash to get them out of hock – with a few dings and dents. But as our local television news under-cover team reported in their week-long series, ‘Liars for Livers,’ pawnshop owners often do little more than throw them untagged into a salt-water fish tank with the other human collateral.
Anyway, the organs we consider ‘vital’ are back and working but we had to trade-in the Commodore 64 and the single-sided hard drive to spring them from their salt-water storage unit. We are writing this review on the computer at the Mystic Hollow Public Library. That means it will be a short and clean piece. We only have computer access for one hour; plus they have a porn and filth blocker that keeps it free of curse words.
In fact, we needed the Assistant Head Librarian’s approval to use the word ‘organ.’
Michigan Magic Day was a success regardless of the method used to measure. It had more participants than any other, the dealers were actually pleased or, more accurately, not despondent by the sales, and the acts were great. Upon Chris Reesman and his associates, great praise and thanks should be lavished.
The lectures were very well-attended and more importantly, appreciated. Under this year’s MMD format, each lecturer was kept to a 40 minute block (We are not sure what that is in Metric). This was a plus because it gave us all a chance to see top-shelf guys (and they were all male) perform and teach without being torn between simultaneously scheduled lectures. This was a negative because each of the masters was restricted to just about 40 minutes.
Who would want to see David Acer (pronounced ‘Day – vid’) or Losander or Whit Haydn or Johnny Thompson for only 40 minutes? But that was the trade-off for seeing them all together.
Because the format required the lecturers to focus their material, this trade-off was actually more than acceptable. Mr. Haydn was the very first subject of the Inside Magic Celebrity Interview and was therefore the reason we had enough hits on the site to justify a second edition of Inside Magic. He also used his forty minute slot to perform and teach his life-changing routine “The Intricate Web of Distraction.”
Chances are you are not familiar with this ground-breaking routine. It is unique in so many ways but significantly the only one in which Color Changing Knives are used to perform an effect where the audience has no inkling the knife has ever changed color. We can tell you that this…
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