No. 9, Atlanta, Georgia – Georgia Magic Club
December 2006
Ring 9 - Atlanta, GA - Georgia Magic Club
Meets 3rd Monday of each month, 7:30 pm
Evan Reynolds, Secretary evan@evan.org 770-598-4987
December, 2006
The pre-meeting chatting was quite noteworthy this time as JC Doty brought one of his photo albums. Doty has had quite the intriguing life, and his photo album showed it – so that was quite the pleasant experience!
Howie Marmer started out the meeting with a mini-lecture on getting and keeping restaurant jobs. It was pretty informative, and he offered some well thought out answers to many questions.
The theme this month was “Closers”. Ron Gladstone started by borrowing some books and had Vicky Hartman choose a page from a book at random, and predicted the word she thought of from that page!
Mark Hatfield presented his linking rings routine. Mark has one of the finest ring routines I’ve seen and it was a pleasure to see him present it.
Kent Laird showed his collection of Hershey’s Kisses. He poured them into a Christmas Stocking and had a volunteer pick one of them randomly from the stocking. The kiss was then used to discard envelope after envelope until only one was left – and it contained a card with the same kiss on it!
Joe Morrison introduced his assistant, the robot Awesomo. Andrew came up and picked a card from a deck. Joe scattered the cards all around Awesomo, and let Andrew steer the robot to a card – which was revealed to be the same card!
Andy Pascual took ten seconds to memorize an entire deck of cards which the audience shuffled. He proved it by splitting the deck in half and giving a half to two spectators. He then identified the location of each card.
Howie Marmer counted out five one dollar bills, insisting they were hundreds. People were skeptical, until the bills suddenly WERE hundred dollar bills.
Keith Rainey had Greg Lax shuffle the deck face up into face down cards, making a mess. Keith then stood behind Greg where he couldn’t see the deck and proceeded to not only announce how many cards in the mess were face up – but how many were black, and how many were clubs! And if that wasn’t enough, he then told us WHICH clubs were face up – followed by which spades, hearts and diamond were face up!
Victoria Skye had everyone draw a rabbit in the air. She then caught the air drawing on a board where the drawing appeared. She put the drawing into an empty box and out came a real rabbit!
Joe M. Turner was our only general magic performer. He had some bells from the Polar Express. Andrew picked one, and Joe showed us that none of the bells would ring except for the one Andrew picked. He then had two spectators pick items from a list. Joe concentrated, and managed to guess a physical item related to each thought-of item.
And the winner of our Coveted Royal Blue Pin was Andy Pascual!
Evan Reynolds