"The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ('but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...') and it's magic and wonderful and strange."

- Neil Gaiman

Happy New Year 2021

December 2018 A piece of Magic

Hi everybody.   We are, indeed, enjoying a very magical month.   

Reach right over to your grandson, and produce a quarter from his ear.   

What can I say?

Here is the book I recommend for this post:
Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic

https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Wilsons-Complete-Course-Magic/dp/0762414553

Bye for now.

Back Again in October 2017

Looking forward to a gathering at Rick's.

It looks like an accumulation of magic and mystery.   I'll be along to expand on this and review our goings on shortly.  

In the meantime, have yourself a great, magical month of October.

MM

We had lots of fun, in October 2014, at our annual Halloween costume party.  I took the opportunity to develop the character of a super mathemagician ... Named:   Aftermath.

Powers
 *  The ability to count to infinity in a single afternoon ... Just like Chuck Norris.

   The ability to make math equations come out of my backside.

 The ability to control things with my mind

 * I can fly and read minds, and also I can turn invisible, and shoot math equations from my finger.

*  I have the ability to speak to the French.

  I have the ability to understand and play casino craps.


And of course I use my powers for good, not evil.
I fight the never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way.

  I don't know how i got my powers.  Rumor has it I received them when a project involving a puppet and a squirt gun didn't go as expected.

Usually with superhero's they just were born with powers. Like X-men, it was just a new stage in evolution, in their blood already, so people had powers show when something triggered it. Emotions and stuff. Maybe you could say I got really frustrated with homework one day, got emotionally out of whack then suddenly I could do math like no other!

Or I came in contact with an alien symbiote while exploring the forest.

Well, what really happened was, ...
 I found myself walking one day while studying hard for a math test, I got a bunch of math books from the library, when I  was leaving the library it started to rain and then it became stormy and lightning struck me and the math books and a bird flying near me (it was trying to get out o the rain). The lightning was like supernatural and caused me to absorb the bird's flying abilities and all the knowledge from the books I had with me.

So, here we are, Feb 2015, and I have a very good set of material well in hand... A formidable collection of mysteries, handouts, humor, and surprising, thought provoking presentations ... Fun for all ages!!

I'll be back soon with pictures.

Yours in magic,

MM

Casually, around the Christmas season...

                                                        Gabe, the Mouse

We are deeply into the magic of the holiday season
right now, and I find that my thinking is a bit off
from the assembly routine that I usually perform on a
day-by-day basis... ( gathering a few tricks to bring to my
day and perform ). So, I have found myself occasionally
without some of the more usual, magical items that I
usually carry.

                                           My original trick ... Three Magi

Recently, I dug out some of the old stand
bys. And I must report --- especially for you old
geezers in magic --- that the very moment that I used a
borrowed twenty dollar bill and two, 2 inch paper clips and
magically linked them together as they arched high into the
air... that very moment was still lit with amazement.

And, of course, I was rewarded with the knowledge that
even the simplest ideas can and do pack a
whallup!!!

                                             Mindmyst, Trusty Sidekick, and Pug

Naturally, I followed this with "Crazy Man's Handcuffs",
where I pass two elastic bands right through each
other, and right under their noses! I was surrounded
quicker than a wink, so I took out my deck and performed
the mind baffler... "Gemini Twins".

Except for the deck ( which I always have!! ), the casual-seeming presentation was
a success.

How is your Christmas season going?

Yours in Magic,
Joe Miller ( Mindmyst )

October Party and Powerful Headlines

sat oct 20, 2012

Here I am, MindMyst, with my little bag of tricks, going with Nina to a fitting, spooky, October Costume Party.  It is a beautiful starry night, with a biting chill in the air.  We're at a private home in Granby, Ct... a countryside of sprawling, old growth trees, orchards, black cats around about hunting along the roadside trails.

Sunset light piercing through the brilliant yellow, gold, and orange of oak, maple, and birch trees, is, this day, sprinkled here and there with the red of roadside sumac leaves. Like a thick, workday stew, this country scene shows bunches, and individual evergreen stands of tall white pines and spruce.  All are on a growing quilt of fallen leaves, and pine needles.


Nina(spider queen)  and I(MindMyst the Magician) went to the Riccio Halloween party last night.  We mingled with Debbie's cousins Stanley and his wife and son (green mask, black robe),
Wesley and Lisa(heathen logger, and ladybug), 
Mrs H(farm girl), of course, 
Neil and Beverley(southern, hot breakfast killer, and hippy),
Becky(cowgirl),
Kathy(wicked witch of the west), and 
Celia(burnet portrayal of a nursing home resident).
Gabe and Debbie (Hugh Hefner, and 16th century farm wife)
  

MindMyst was there, and won "best hat" of the night!  Of course, I couldn't refrain from pulling a rabbit from my hat ... it was absolutely necessary!

Outside motif was Haunted Garden... featuring garden goul, a very large attack spider, a flame bowl, a strange porch butler, and a porch skeleton.  Greeting us as we entered, another butler (animated).  Everyone was in costume, and the pork roast meal was excellent.  Plenty of wine, cider, beer, and soft beverages, and coffee.

Someone had suggested taking out a ouija board, but I nixed that idea immediately.  Stanley's wife asked me about my "take" on playing with a ouija board, and I told her that it's best that we don't open any "windows" of exposure to demons.  I did get the chance to elaborate on Isaiah 9:10, 
and recommended Jonathan Cahn's book Harbinger.  I also had a conversation with Beverley about the Earth being the center of the universe, as well as a nice layout of t=f(g), and c=f(t)  leading to the idea that ly is only a measure of distance, not a measure of time.

We played a game called Telestrations.  Interesting and fun game around the table. 
In fact, this is an award-winning game... highly recommended.

Nina and I left at midnight (only fitting).


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10292012

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the west coast of Canada, but there were no reports of major damage. Residents in parts of British Columbia were evacuated, but the province appeared to escape the biggest quake in Canada since 1949 largely unscathed.
*The Italian government has filed charges against all involved.

WATERBURY, Ct. - Hurricane Sandy is aiming for landfall just south us us.  As of this report, it's 2:00pm, and calm, with light rain. Traffic volume is very light. Nina is at work in Naugatuck. She just called saying she'll wrap things up and leave there around 3pm.  The weather stick is down.  The wind chimes are silent at the moment.  Temp is 65.7F.  All highways are closed, except for emergency vehicles only.

News 8's Erin Logan was on Great Hammock Road in Old Saybrook, where the noon-hour high tide flooded lawns and roads.

Ok.  It's 4pm.  Nina's home.  We're cooking 6 thick, juicy boneless pork chops topped with fresh apple slices and brown sugar.  We'll fry up some hash browns, and maybe I'll have a nice cold bottle of Sam's Oktoberfest!

Study: Male beluga whale mimics human speech
Caretakers at the Vancouver Aquarium in Canada previously said they heard one of the white whales say its name.
*  When interogated on the issue, the whale attempted to negotiate for a bigger tank, and younger sex partners in exchange for it's cooperation.

Thanks for visiting.  Please post a comment.

Magically,

MindMyst

Stage Magic in October

Stage Magic to look forward to...



My notice for a magic show coming to the Palace Theater in Waterbury.
Spencer's Theatre of Illusion ... 10/26/12 at 7:00pm
http://www.palacetheaterct.org/worxcms_published/events_page937.shtml

 

                                                                    Kevin Spencer



And  right now (oct 17, 2012) is 
a review of Dave Garrity's show at 6 flags
as I remember it...(2009) My family and I enjoyed Dave's magic show very much.  The theater was a bit small, and I'm sure that if the show was in larger quarters, it 
would have filled the seats.  As we were leaving, the line for the next show was already "around the corner," so to speak.

Don't miss this great show.
Dave Garrity "Illusion Quest" -- 6 flags New England ... now  playing

http://www.magicalartist.com/shows/

                                                                David Garrity


Please leave a comment, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you.

Thanks for visiting, my family and I thank you for your support.


Yours in the magical arts,

Joe Miller
Mindmyst