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The Honest Liar
News, updates, thoughts and essays about magic, cooking, pizza, baseball, cinema and more, along with an occasional book review. Also a periodic feature revisiting entries from my Take Two series in tandem with past book reviews.
Regarding Eugene Burger’s Psychological Card Magic
Regarding Eugene Burger’s Psychological Card Magic – Notes on the Workshop on Equivoque and Dai Vernon’s Trick That Cannot Be Explained – plus a one-of-a-kind document!
Eugene Burger: Final Secrets — a review
Jamy reviews Eugene Burger: Final Secrets by Lawrence Hass and Eugene Burger
Jamy returns to blogging after an absence, and there is much more to come in the weeks ahead!
John Thompson’s “Garbage Collectors”
Johnny Thompson’s version of Roy Benson’s neo-classic bowl routine is described in detail in The Magic of Johnny Thompson. We mentioned there that John’s favorite final load for the routine was a genuine ham sandwich, and that he sometimes would also use that as a transition effect into card magic. This routine—John’s version of Walton’s “Collector” plot—is the trick that John would utilize to make that transition, however we chose not to include it in the book. Here now is the complete description, as it was written for the book.