I.B.M. Ring 9

Ring Reports

09/18/00

No. 9, Atlanta, Georgia – Georgia Magic Club

3rd Monday, 7:30 PM, Dunwoody Library, 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road

JOE M. TURNER, President (jmturner@mindspring.com)
RICK SILVERSTEIN, Vice President (rick@mindspring.com)
SCOTT HORN, Secretary (g.scott.9881@worldnet.att.net)

Ring 9 Web Site: http://www.gamagicclub.com

Greg McMahon opened our September meeting with a mini-lecture on teaching magic at a children's camp. After welcoming our guests, conducting a quick business meeting and making a few announcements, the performances were underway, emceed by VP Rick Silverstein who also donated the evening's door prize.

Four magicians auditioned for membership this evening. Colm Mulcahy performed a card mentalism routine, followed by David Thompson who had an entire act comprised of the things he was going to show us but decided against: coin manipulation, a card selection which failed, cups and balls, and Prof. Cheer's rope trick. Instead of boxer shorts, the previously selected card was found tied to the end of the rope! Matt McElhannon had a smooth ring and ribbon penetration routine, and Devlin Buckner caused a spectator to select a card from the deck which promptly vanished from the pack and was found to be the card Devlin had previously placed in the spectator's own pocket. All auditions were well received.

This month's theme was mentalism/psychic magic. Doyne Michie's psychic flea correctly called out the name of the spectator's card from inside the card box. Rick Hinze had a spectator point to one of five people who had selected cards; amazingly, the designated spectator's card matched the one in Rick's wallet. Rick also predicted the amount of pocket change in another spectator's pocket. Scott Horn predicted a selected ESP card and the number of matches that would be left in a matchbook by a spectator.

Tommy Johns successfully extracted a freely selected word from the mind of his spectator, then repeated this with a thought-of card. Howie Marmer somehow knew which symbols each of his two spectators would select in different ways. Joe M. Turner tried to read the thoughts of two spectators; a partial miss on the first was salvaged by a direct hit on the second. Terry Wenham magically lit a fluorescent light bulb with psychic energy from a spectator and somehow changed the time on a photograph of a clock to match a spectator's thought-of time. Tim Wolfe identified a real thought-of card using a blank deck, while Jim Magus named each card he dealt from a borrowed, shuffled deck - before dealing it! Jim Morrison closed with an excellent lie-detector routine. Doyne Michie won the evening's theme magic vote.

In general magic, Christophe Fouquet did amazing magical impressions, illustrating the "French Drop" by falling to the floor. Chris Labowicz turned a borrowed bill inside-out and restored it. In a very visual piece of magic, Joe M. Turner pushed a large black silk through the center of a jumbo card and proceeded to hand both the unharmed card and silk out for examination.

Come visit us in Atlanta!

Joe M. Turner

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