Dustings #78

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I want to keep you all in the loop on a fun show coming up at the Smoke and Mirrors Magic Theater in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 1st.

“Can you guess which one of these guys is a lawyer?” Haha, good stuff, good stuff.

Can you guess which one is a child molester? It’s the one on the left.

On the page for upcoming shows, they don’t list the names of these “two superb comedy & mystery” performers. I’m going to guess it’s because if you google Jeffrey Leach, Jeff Carson, Ron Geoffries or whatever other name the guy on the left is performing under, you’re going to find his sex offender profile which details his crime:

OFFENDER INAPPROPRIATELY TOUCHED VICTIM AND HAD VICTIM TOUCH HIM INAPPROPRIATELY OVER A 6 YEAR PERIOD.

Or you’ll find articles giving information such as this:

According to the indictment, he was accused of molesting a girl more than a dozen times, starting when she was 10. In that indictment, Leach was accused of “placing or rubbing his penis against her,” “having the victim touch his penis for the purpose of sexually arousing or sexually gratifying himself or to humiliate or degrade” her, “showing videotaped pornographic images of adults engaging in sexual behavior” to her, and “masturbating in view” of her.

Sounds like a fun guy! I wonder what zany antics he has cooked up for the April Fools day show! This guy’s got a MILLION jokes. Like when he gains your trust in order to get alone with your child and then molests them for six years! April Fools! 🤣🤣🤣 He got you so bad! You thought he WASN’T a pathetic pervert when really… he is! That’s classic Jeff Carson for you! (or classic Ron Geoffries, or classic Jeffrey Leach).

Please note that the show is 18 and over only.

Here’s a shot of Jeff Carson when he learned that.

I will be adding “The April Fools” to Jeff’s listing on the GLOMM website. Jeff, tell your lawyer friend there not to worry, I’ll include the trademark symbol so everyone knows it’s the official April Fools. Not some people just trying to coast on your name.

You might ask, “Andy, didn’t you say in Wednesday’s post that you weren’t going to be posting on controversial topics? And then this is the lead off to your Friday post?”

Well, no, not exactly. I said not to expect me to dip into every controversy, especially the morally grey ones. Expect me just to go after the true scourges of the magic community like sex criminals and Joshua Jay.

I did ask myself if I really wanted to post about this. I don’t see it as my job to follow around sex criminals for the rest of their lives and make sure everyone knows what they’re up to. I wouldn’t even say everyone on the GLOMM boot list is a horrible person. They may have made a horrible decision and cleaned up their life afterwards. I can’t always judge. That’s why the GLOMM list is just binary. “Were you convicted of a sex crime—yes or no?”

On this site, however, I have different standards. I do a little more editorializing on this site. I’m not going follow every move made by some 20-year-old idiot who convinced a 15-year-old to send him nudes for the rest of his life. I’ll chalk that up to youthful stupidity. But I’m not sure a guy who was in his 40s, molesting someone for six years, deserves any grace. Jeff Carson may have paid his dues to the legal system, but my heart goes out to the kid. I can’t help but think of the 10-year-old who has to live with this face in their nightmares.

That’s a life sentence that they don’t deserve.

I’m not saying he should never be able to perform again. I’m not saying the theater should cancel the show. I’m sure they know his history; they’re free to do whatever they want. He’s certainly allowed to pursue his art (if you consider the card duck or the Chinese sticks to be “art”). I’m allowed to pursue my art too: talking shit about creeps.

I had never heard of the Smoke & Mirrors Magic Theater before this. That’s cool that there’s a theater devoted to magic. I’m not too far away and I look forward to checking out a show there at some point. Not this show, of course. But maybe a different show in the future. With someone who didn’t coerce a kid into playing with his dick. Do you have any of those coming up?

Changing subjects completely—although still in the general realm of “controversy” talk—when the Petty/Weber situation came to light a week ago, I didn’t immediately know if Craig Petty was being brave or foolish with his claims.

With his latest attack though, I know for sure that he’s not acting brave or foolish.

He’s acting dangerously reckless.

When you go after Michael Weber, you’ll probably piss him off and some of his buddies in magic’s old guard. Who gives a shit. That’s a small portion of the magic community.

But in this recent video on how to act at the Blackpool Magic Convention, he takes aim at a full 98% of the magic community when he cautions them…

You’re on your own here, Craig. I’m not going to alienate most of magic by taking a stand like this. I actually like your average magic convention attendee’s scent. The breath that smells like they’ve been sucking on a blue cheese lozenge, the unscrubbed armpits, the butthole that has had almost a full 60% of the fecal matter from their last bowel movement cleaned away, and whatever that cologne is that they wear (I think it might be soy sauce). I think it’s great. This is Craig’s war to fight. Please don’t drag me into this.