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Ditto Dog

Copy Cat is worn out and hackneyed, so I created Ditto Dog. They say that plagiarism is the highest form of flattery. Maybe that’s true; maybe it’s not, but in our case, it kind of makes sense. Often in magic we learn a routine from someone else’s repertoire. We then …

Secrets

So what’s the big deal with secrets? It’s an interesting philosophical question . . . I think, and so does Brad “Scarnecky” Gordon. This month you get to peak inside of a pseudo-conversation Brad and I had – more like a Q&A – about secrets. So here it is in …

Invisibility via Visibility

In Banachek’s killer book, Psychological Subtleties 2, he tells a story of someone he knew who got a parking ticket. The basic gist of it was that this person parked in this particular spot almost everyday. Then one day a no parking sign was added. However, he never noticed the …