No. 9, Atlanta, Georgia – Georgia Magic Club
December 2005
Andy Pascual and Rob Speer ran this meeting as their first meeting as officers.
Wes Petty began with a mini-lecture on routining. He took three routines and explained how he tied them together into one consistently themed act.
The theme was Tuning Up Your Magic this month. Keith Rainey told a story about four musicians that crashed on an island and found a genie who granted them wishes. Cards on the table moved about as the story formed a nice collectors routine.
Richard Rubin appeared after a long absence. He started by greeting everyone in the room by name, which was pretty impressive in itself. He had thought the theme was "tuna up" your magic, so he had several packages of psychic tuna with him. Joe M. Turner came down, and shuffled the tuna packages for Richard as he made quite a few bad puns. Joe picked one of the tuna packages and Richard read his mind to read all sorts of numbers and dates from the package.
Joe Morrison had tuned into his deck of cards. A volunteer removed one, and just from riffling the deck, he could tell from the sound that the ace of spades had been removed. He had another removed and could tell immediately that it was the three of clubs.
For general magic, Andy Pascual laid out many cards from a deck a spectator shuffled and revealed that the randomly laid cards had strong patterns in them, showing Lennert Green's Dragon's Pearl.
Gene Hendrix shuffled a deck and had Rob Speer take about half the deck. Rob dealt those into three stacks, and revealed that he had predicted the three cards Rob dealt last.
Joe Turner had a volunteer just look at a shuffled borrowed deck and think of one of the cards. He guessed the card on the first try. He then had a second card thought of - and guessed IT on the first try as well. He then had a third person think of a card under even more difficult conditions and guessed it on the first try too.
And our theme winner was Richard Rubin!