Until June...
/This is the final post for May. New posting resumes Thursday, June 1st. Newsletter subscribers will receive the June issue that day as well. If you’re a subscriber at the $25/month level and you have an ad to get in for the next issue, try to get it to me by the 28th or so
Speaking of ads, I forgot to get this one into the last newsletter and it’s time sensitive so I’m placing it here instead.
This is another way you can use your ad space even if you have nothing to sell. You’ve got a page to do with as you please.
Dear friends of the Jerx....
I am using my Jerx advertising to share some very grave news with you.
The Magic Nook will be closing at the end of this month.
You know the site. The one that only sells to VERIFIED magicians, and also does nothing to define what that means.
Magic is an art, and they know it when they see it:
https://www.magicnook.com/verified.htm
But perhaps it is most famous for these very good and very funny and very tasteful pandemic jokes:
https://www.magicnook.com/FREEpostPandemicJokes.htm
So please, if you will, pour out some woofle dust for one of my favorite magic shops.
Memorial armbands will be available in the lobby.
"Do-It-Yourself" Magic for "Build-It-Yourself" Magicians
CLOSING WEB SITE ON MAY 31.
If you would like some insight into where modern magic and modern culture are, consider tricks in the past that have been popularized for the people whom they fooled.
The Ambitious Card was known as “The Trick that Fooled Houdini” after Dai Vernon was purported to have fooled him with it.
Out of This World has been known as “The Trick that Fooled Winstons Churchill.”
Then there is the mathematical trick known as “The Trick that Fooled Einstein” as dubbed by Al Koran.
Houdini! Churchill! Einstein!
A master magician. An esteemed statesman. And the greatest physicist of all time.
Where are we at now…?
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If you’re looking to “freak out” someone of the status of a Post Malone, the trick is Hook by Eric Ross.
For those of you who have the last book, you will recognize this concept from the trick in there called The Line Code. If the premise of that trick escaped you in the written form, then this might help explain the idea behind what you are pretending to do in that trick.
In a few days, while we’re away, the 8th anniversary of this site will occur. I can’t wait to receive all your presents. 🥰
I’m looking into ideas of how I might celebrate…
That “nerf war party” is really calling my name.
And what’s the deal with a “cozy movie night party”? Cozy? You don’t have “cozy” parties with 8-year-olds unless you’re Jared from Subway.
Actually, what I’ll probably end up doing is throwing a soccer ball, going rollerblading, and playing Explosions on my gaming system. Typical 8-year-old stuff.
At any rate, thanks to those of you who have supported the site and allowed it to continue all these years. This will be one of the busiest months for me related to this site as I’ve had to complete a full month of posting, a newsletter, and finishing up the next book. I’m already beat and the next 10 days are going to be crazy.
What does year 9 hold? It’s likely going to be the busiest year yet: A brand new effect for the Jerx App, unlike anything I’ve seen in app magic. The first release in the Every Deck A Story trick series. The new book in October. The reprint of The Amateur at the Kitchen Table in early 2024. And another physical trick release probably before year 9 is up.
That’s assuming the site survives a bit of self-sabotage I’m considering doing next month. We’ll see back here on June 1st, Flip-A-Coin Day, where’s I’ll flip a coin to decide if I’m going to dox the person writing this site.
