Until September...

“It’s a great way to pass the time between acts of non-consensual sodomy.” —Joshua Jay on magic in prison.

What a fucking weird thing to say. But whatever. That’s the New York Times article I mentioned I was approached about a few weeks ago.


Pete McCabe wrote in to tell me about this mini hand-held printer that allows you to print on “anything,” even skin. It definitely looks like it could have some magic applications. Especially if it’s quiet enough to use in real time. It can also print with UV ink on skin.

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I’d probably use it to have someone intuit the hand-stamp I got at the club I went to the previous night.


Hey, so maybe we’ve run out of magicians who can fool Penn and Teller.

I mean, look, it’s a perfectly serviceable presentation of a standard effect, but there’s nothing he does here which was even intended to fool Penn and Teller, correct? Or am I missing something?

What do you think Penn whispered to him at the end?

“Psst. This is on sale for $25 off at Vanishing Inc.


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Okay, see you in September (or lose you, to a summer love, of course).