Mordecai's Journal

Halloween comes early this year, at least at the Hartford Assembly.  Share a trick with us that’s spooky, scary, eerie, or just downright odd and unsettling.  Bonus points if nobody can get to sleep for three days afterwards.
The meeting is September 8 and starts at 7:30 PM.  Join the officers for dinner, please, at 6:00 PM.

11 August 2008 7:36 PM
Sec. rpt.: Accepted as published.
Tres. rpt.: balance was reported.
O. B.: President Angelo Chirico read a letter from the Veterans’ Hospital in Rocky Hill.  There is a possible “event” on Sept. 7, in the morning or early afternoon.
Fall show will be Nov. 1 [has been changed to Nov. 15], keeping with the Halloween theme.  It was moved and seconded to authorize Rick St. Pierre to build two small “wings” for our new stage, and give him $200 toward materials.
N. B.: Charlie Hayden is holding a cookout this Sunday [Aug. 17] starting at 2PM.
David Ginn will be touring with a workshop next Spring.
G&W: VP Dan Sclare has heard from Len Lazar, saying he is doing well after his move to MA.
Secretary Dana Ring presented Angelo and new member Chris White with Houdini pins that Marlene Clark gave him at the Louisville convention.  These pins are designed to be given to new members and the current members who bring them into the SAM.
Adjourned 8:34PM
Tonights theme was “Anything Goes”.

October: The History of Assembly Twenty-One

November: Aldo Colombini lecture

←   Norm St. Laurent did a rope trick—actually a whole routine, and a good one at that.
Dan showed off one of the close-up tricks the conventioneers received at Louisville, “The Missing Think.”  He also showed us a prop that held a playing card.  When the card is thrown out, it has changed.
Angelo showed us something he’s been working on—a card-behind-the-window effect in which a corner of the card goes through the glass.
Walt Umberfield showed an old prop from 1990 called “Mirror Mental” which apparently stamps out a coin from a square of metal.
Chris poured some salt on a menu and added some pepper to the pile.  He passed his hand over the pile and the pepper disappeared.

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This was a floor piece at the banquet at the Louisville convention.