No. 9, Atlanta, Georgia – Georgia Magic Club
3rd Monday, 7:30 PM, Mt. Vernon Presbyterian Church, Dunwoody,
GA
Ring 9 Phone Number (404) 978-1260 ext. 9588
We started with a dazzling display of deckly delight from Craig Winkelmann,
who demonstrated a variety of fanning techniques and different decks for
fanning displays.
Patrick Floyd is looking to carpool up to see Banachek in Gainesville.
Tim Brown performed for membership, determining the location of a card
chosen by no less than Superman’s girlfriend, Lana. She denied it, but we
knew. He had a bad case of nerves, so we were happy to see a successful
location.
The theme this month was Hardware Magic. Anything involving hardware was
fair game. As a software engineer I was horribly insulted. Where’s the
software magic?
Rick Hinze unclogged his drains, only to find that the horrible mess causing
issues in his plumbing was a infestation of sponge balls.
Carey Huddleston impressed us with his suave manner and snappy dress. Plus
he did a really baffling trick that involved a reference to Dan Garrett’s
mustache wax. Any trick that works in something like that is a winner if
you ask me. Go Carey!
Jim Mangham demonstrated a mobius strip and some of it’s impressive
properties.
Howie came out with a string or horrible horrible puns. I love this man.
Impressively enough he then did a sponge ball routine with three large metal
nuts.
The club president then appeared and did the Chinese sticks with some
plastic drainage pipes…I think the pipes stole the show from him. Zamphir,
eat your heart out.
Edward Turner securely tied four bolts onto a rope…some hard work later and
all four bolts dropped off the rope and into his hand to thunderous
applause!
Then everyone paused to vote for the winner…who would it be?
General
Ted Harty had Patrick Floyd choosing envelopes. But man was there audience
participation! Down to one envelope chosen…and a card was picked…the six of
diamonds…envelope…six of diamonds…envelope…six of diamonds…envelope…mam oh
man what’s in the envelope? He’s signing the card! I wanna know about the
envelope! Open it! Open it! Arrrrgh! Card tricks…ambitious routine with
a signed card…c’mon! Envelope! Cardtoon…nicely done…Envelope! I wanna see
what’s in the envelope! Oooooo! Patrick the spectator is opening the
envelope…business card…folded card! Folded card! Folded card! It’s the
signed card from earlier! Yaaaaay!
And Howie came back up with a really funny D’lite routine that left us in
stitches. You could say it was really lite hearted. Sorry. I couldn’t
help it. Then he did a really delightful card selection with the signed
card appearing inside Lana’s hands.
And lo, then came Patrick Floyd to take us home. The closing act. Pressure
was rising…could the finale top the evening off nicely? Oooo! Cards! So
far so good. Audience members collectively made up a card…no physical cards
involved. A number was made up…12. Then we saw the deck. Only one card
was upside down…no, wait, that’s a different routine. As cleanly as
possible, he took the deck from the case and counted down twelve cards.
Audience members came up to inspect. Closely inspect. No trickery.
Nine…ten…eleven…the twelfth card was it! Dang! You go, Patrick!
Oops. Jim Mangham. That stuff earlier about a closing act? Forget it.
Jim Mangham he’s our man! Oooo…this could be cool…he’s got a rubber
container…rubbing alcohol in it…opening plugged with a ping pong
ball…sparker in the back…gonna have a nice effect here! Ping pong balls
afire! Nope. More rubbing alcohol. Nope. More rubbing alcohol. POP!
Wheee-ha ha! Flaming wand follow-up! You can’t beat that.
Then at the last minute Bob Suhr as Aragorn the Magician appeared for a
impromptu set. Jim Mangham just happened to have some flash paper for
Aragorn. What a handy guy! And a coin wrapped in that flash paper burned
it’s way right down to the chosen card. Quite cool!
And the final news…theme winner is RICK HEINZE! YAAAAY!
- Evan Reynolds