Mordecai's Journal

The Society of American Magicians
Northern Connecticut Assembly #21
Newsletter for March 2010
Mordecai

 

 

Meetings:

Second Monday of every month except December at Angelo's on Main in West Hartford
(I-84 exit 41)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
March Meeting:
Craig Dickson Lecture

Past National President Craig Dickson will lecture for us this month.  He will include material such as PK magic, his Card Control, how to load surrounded, a really clean version of Out of the Universe, Loop tying, Corner Short work, and more.  Plus: some special package deals.  Be attentive with us on March 8 at 7:30 PM.  Join the officers for dinner at 6:00 PM.

Minutes of February Meeting

8 February 2010 7:33 PM
VP Dan Sclare called the meeting to order.
The secretary’s report was accepted as published, and the treasurer reported our balance.
New Bus.: Jack Stroup called Dan with news that Allain Choquette has a new lecture.  The local IBM ring has agreed to share lecture fees/gate if we host him in April.
Another possibility is Scott Francis who has a lecture called “The MacGyver Lecture” in which you can buy stuff at Radio Shack and turn it into a magical prop.
G&W: NEMCON, honoring Joe Cabral, is March 13.

Adjourned at 7:47PM

The theme for the evening was "do something with something red," in honor of the hearts and roses of Valentine's Day.
VP Dan Sclare started things off with a color-changing rope, to which he added two more ropes to do Professor's Nightmare.  He used a change bag to "join" the ropes--the ropes came out tied together, but the knots popped off. →

When Last We Met
Soll Levine and his framed clown cards.
←   Ed Cook showed us his nicely decorated square circle whence he produced a dozen red bags of chocolate hearts to be distributed among the members.
Norman St. Laurent had two red-backed and one blue-backed card, which transposed.
Dave Garrity brought out a blue bag, which held a red card case, inside of which was a deck of blue-backed cards except one: the red-backed selected card.
Walt Umberfield worked with two red-backed cards and three pennies.  One at a time, the pennies placed in his pocket re-appeared between the two cards.
Alizar, a guest this evening, had two cards chosen. One card rose out of the deck, the other spun out of a spread.  Another card "rose" to the top: it was a message card that named the real card.
Soll Levine recently attended a clown convention and brought back some circus-themed large framed cards.  The clown disappeared from his frame and was seen hanging around the Big Top card. Dan closed the evening by putting red and white tissues into a change bag and pulling out a tiny candy cane--then a five-foot candy cane.
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