Mordecai's Journal

President Dan Sclare is bringing the DVD player to the meeting this month.  He is also bringing “Penn & Teller’s Magic and Mystery Tour” featuring magicians from China, Egypt and India.  Feel free to bring other DVD’s you want the club to see!
Those wishing to join us for dinner are encouraged to do so, starting at 6:00 PM.  The meeting starts at 7:30 PM on June 12th.

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Minutes of May Meeting

8 May 2006  7:40 PM
Sec’y’s report:  accepted as printed.
Treas’ report:  balance reported

Secretary Dana Ring read some correspondences to the group.
Dana was appointed our delegate to the National Council meeting in July.
The ballot for the National officers was read, and the group voted.  The ballot was sealed and signed [and has been mailed.]
We also voted on our own officers, who are now: President: Dan Sclare
Vice-P.: Angelo Chirico
Secretary: Dana Ring
Treasurer: Walt Umberfield
Board of Directors: Ron Strong, joining Dave Garrity and John Marenholtz.

G & W:  Len Lazar mentioned two magic specials that will appear on TV this week, and the group debated the merits of the subject of one of those specials.

Adjourned: 8:18 PM

Aftermeeting:  Everyone was invited to perform a trick for the club.

Cal Vinick started us off with a vanishing cigarette and a vanishing deck.
Dana showed us a crystal die that transformed into a marble.  When he tried to turn it back into a die, it became a disk instead, then vanished. Angelo dealt three piles of cards.  Cal chose one pile and looked at the bottom card.  Angelo then showed us a photocopy he made in his office of a pile of cards.  All the cards were face-up except one.  When he turned it over, the photocopy was of a pile of face-down cards except for one that matched Cal’s selection.  Angelo also did a routine resembling “Color Monte,” in which the “money card” kept disappearing and re-appearing in the packet.
Walt Umberfield folded a card into a dollar bill, then the card penetrated the top of the bill without damaging it.
Len Lazar got up to “expose” Angelo’s 3-card monte by showing how the “money” card was actually longer than the rest of the cards.  He then showed the same card to be really fatter than the others.  He then did a version of cups and balls.
John Marenholtz demonstrated a weird balancing “hook” that he and other members of the IBM received at their last meeting.  When you put a belt in the hook’s slot, the hook will balance on your finger or the edge of a table.
Dave Edwards did Gypsy Thread.
Bob Alexander showed us a blank business card.  He then “typed” his information onto the card with just his fingers.
Cal came back to show us a penny that penetrated a matchbox.
Angelo returned to show us a routine called “Queens Gone Wild,” which is similar in nature to “Sympathetic Aces.”

The tongue-in-cheek premise of the night was that “extra points” would be awarded for tricks beginning with the letter “M.” It was agreed that Cal, with his Matchbox penetration, should be declared “winner.”