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Back In Genii Again

It would appear that the folks at Genii Magazine are fans of my Frixion Work. The May Issue of Genii Magazine was the second time they asked if they could publish one of my effects. You can see (and buy) the issues here:

January 2011 (The Houdini Tribute Issue): Burnin’ Time By Jeff Stone
May 2012 (75th Anniversary Issue): Dropin’ The Bomb by Jeff Stone

Gems and Rubble Gone For Good

A couple of issues ago, I announced the death of the Gems and Rubble column at the same time as the birth of my new site, Magic Reviewed. Let’s just say that my inbox got a little hot from all the flames I got. I shouldn’t say that.

They were all nice emails, but they were expressing their concern about the disappearance of the column. So I left it in place for a while. Then I watched the traffic . . . and it was weak at best. Just not a lot of people reading it.

However, the traffic at Magic Reviewed skyrocketed and has continued to climb the whole time, so I finally severed the ties. All of the reviews have been completely removed from Stone Cold Magic Magazine. All of my reviews are now found at Magic Reviewed.

Let’s all bow our heads in a moment of silence as we mourn the loss and celebrate the reincarnation of Gems and Rubble in the form of Magic Reviewed.

Sankey Magic and Stone Cold Magic Team Up

If you’re a fan of either of us (Jay or Me) – I now you’re out there – then you’re gonna love this. Jay and I collaborated on a really cool gimmick that is an excellent gimmick for restaurant workers. Jay says it all in the YouTube Video below.

Check it out. Then go to his site and order a copy of it:

Infiltrator by Jay Sankey & Jeff Stone

Enjoy the June 2012 issue . . .

Grandpa Chet says:

July 2012 at 1:23 am

Yes, I was one of the first who mourned the death of Gems & Rubble. Because, no matter how you try to justify it, only Gem has its own theme song, cartoon, and Barbie-imitation doll. And is truly outrageous.

“Infiltrator” looks incredible. I have two or three ideas how this might be done, but my ideas would be clunky – and I didn’t think of it; Sankey & Stone did.

We know Jay Sankey, of course. But who is this Jeff Stone person?

Jeff Stone says:

July 2012 at 2:10 am

@Chet – I’m more of a Jerrica kind of guy . . . Jeff Who?

July 2012 at 2:29 am

I remember that song! “Joshua fi’t the battle of Jerrica!”

Jeff Stone says:

July 2012 at 10:46 am

It seems that the Gems & Rubble Column was harder to kill than I’d thought. I kept hacking away at the neck, but the darn head just won’t come off . . . I just popped in and looked at my stats to see what pages were being viewed. I clicked on an older page and started reading the comments, then it dawned on me that I was reading one of the review pages that I had posted in the Gems and Rubble column . . .

I didn’t realize it until I had nearly finished reading the page. Then I noticed that the “News” section of the magazine had 49 more posts than the rest of the site. It looks like the Gems and Rubble didn’t die, they merely moved themselves to the News section.

But . . .Once I found them, I killed them once and for all. The column is now officially dead.