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07.15.2011
09:29 am

Topics:
Amusing
History

Tags:
Magic
dummies
dummy
ventriloquists

Okay, I ain’t gonna lie…dummies scare the living shit out of me! Remember those commercials for Magic? (*shudders*) To add salt to my open wound, Public School blog posted a demented photo-essay titled Vaudeville Ventriloquists Dummy Portraits. Click if you dare.

Written by Tara McGinley | 5 Comments

CIA’s Lost Magic Manual Resurfaces

11.25.2009
12:30 pm

Topics:
Unorthodox

Tags:
CIA
Magic

The CIA has released its official secrets of magic (stage magic, that is, don’t get any ideas) in a just-published book. Now THAT sounds like an excellent holiday present for quite a few people I know. From Wired:

At the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency paid $3,000 to renowned magician John Mulholland to write a manual on misdirection, concealment, and stagecraft. All known copies of the document ?

Written by Jason Louv | Leave a comment

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