While the club turnout was somewhat small this month, we did have several guests at the meeting who also performed some very nice magic including a very visual cut and restored ribbon and a nice memorized deck routine.
Club President Mark Paulson presented a neat trick where he had a small wind-up walking brain toy that he used to help divine a spectator‘s chosen card. The brain was said to be that of Howard Thurston and Mark had it walk over a pile of cards stopping on the card that was chosen. Mark also showed a prediction envelope and had a list of various items on a piece of paper. A spectator told mark where to cut the paper and the cut turned out to be on the word skeleton. Inside the prediction envelope was a small skeleton cut in two.
J.R. Russell performed an interesting witch test with member Larry Dimmitt. He had Larry sign a picture of a witch and when J.R. waved the picture under a flame picture changed showing the witch flying away. J.R. said that room should sign a goodbye card for Larry and once it was returned he showed the card to not only be a different color, but to also have travel stamps on it as well.
Jim Earnshaw performed a winged silver routine by Ponta the Smith, where 4 coins traveled from one hand to the other individually and then all together. Jim also performed a Jay Sankey coin effect where 3 coins are “eaten” by a 4th called “Mass Consumption”