Dustings #100
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As I’m busy getting things ready for the holiday party, I just wanted to drop in and mention a few things…
New Newsletter Schedule
The supporter newsletter, which used to come out on the 1st of the month, will now come out the Sunday before posting starts for that month.
So, posts start on the first Monday of the month. Most often this will mean the newsletter will come to you on the first Sunday of the month. But, for the next newsletter—since the first Monday in January is the 1st—the newsletter will come out December 31st.
Scott Jameson has been kicked out of The Global League of Magicians and Mentalists.
Scott Jameson, seen here indulging one of his passions—playing with his balls in front of a group of kids—plead guilty in Boston last month. He was charged with one count of illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place and one count of transportation of child pornography. You can read the details here. Apparently he went to Cambodia and when he returned, “A search of his belongings found a video made during his trip in Cambodia, depicting the genitals of a young boy between 5 and 7 years old.”
It appears this was the second trip to Cambodia that he made in 2022. He had been identified as engaging in inappropriate behavior with children on his first trip by an anti-child-abuse organization and when he couldn’t stay away, they nailed him on his return in October of 2022.
Jameson performed frequently for children at libraries and schools in Massachusetts. His (now defunct) website says: “I present performances that feature magic, juggling, and other less definable bits of entertainment.”
I’m guessing the child porn was part of the “less definable bits of entertainment” he was into.
He gets sentenced next March.
Speaking of which, this year our donation from the profits of the GLOMM Elite Membership kit will go to Action Pour Les Enfants, the organization that busted Scott Jameson. I’m happy to be able to support an organization that directly took part in nailing a magic creep.
I don’t often have to apologize on this site, but, like Jerry Orbach in Dirty Dancing…
"Did you make assumptions about the hot-shot dance instructor impregnating his dance partner?”
Well, no. The situation itself isn’t actually that reminiscent of Dirty Dancing.
In this season’s book mailing, I used a photo of Michael Ammar on the inside of the shipping box. What I didn’t realize at the time was that that picture was part of an as-yet-unrealized photography project by Zakary Bellamy. When I learned that, I immediately reached out to him to make things right and work out a licensing fee for the pic.
In the magic community, the concept of “intellectual property” is often pooh-poohed (if not just outright poopoo’d) but paying for my use of the image was clearly the right thing to do. (Of course, it’s a pittance compared to the priceless honor of being featured alongside one of my books.)
I’m happy to hear so many of you are pumped for the Jerx Holiday Spectacular, or whatever it is I’m calling it. It’s going to be sweet. Many of the contributions from our guests have already been received. But I’ll actually be writing the post in real time over the course of 15 hours. So you can come and watch it unfold all night.