MagiCurrents San Diego Ring 76 July 2011 VOl. XXV #7 Installation Banquet Dues As you know (or should know) July will be our Just a quick reminder that dues are now past due for Installation banquet. This is when the yearly awards your membership for Ring 76. Once past June 30, the will be given out for: Stand-Up Magician, Close Up dues rate is $30.00 Magician and Entertainer of the Year. Also the You can pay at the July meeting, or mail your dues Member of the year will be awarded. This is an award check, made out to Ring 76, to: given to a member not necessarily for performing but to someone who you feel has done a lot for the general Richard Ustick, benefit of the Ring. Treasurer Ring 76 251 Thrasher Way The banquet will take place Sunday July 10th, at 5pm. El Cajon, CA 92020 Bob and Mary Meigs have, once again, offered their home as the venue. The home is in a beautiful setting and there is plenty of room to mill around and visit. of the new board) entertainment will be provided by Kudos to the Meigs for offering to host us at their Lorenzo Clark! house for both the banquet as well as each Board The cost for entire event is only $15 per person.!!! meeting . Directions: Take I-5 to Lomas Santa Fe Dr. off ramp, The Board has decided to have the banquet catered one exit north of the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Go east on this year. The catering will be by Bekker's West Coast Lomas Santa Fe 8/10 of a mile, to the top of the hill, Catering. They catered an event for us some time ago and Via Mil Cumbres intersects with Lomas on the left and it was extremely well received. (there are tennis courts on the The menu will be in a "Old fashion right). Turn left onto Via Mi Cumbres, Barbecue" style. and will include: and 1402 is the first house on the right BBQ Beef and BBQ Chicken (corner house). It is a tall, grey, French Homemade BBQ Baked Beans style house with a circular driveway and Red Potato Sour Cream and lots of garages. Dill Potato Salad Note: You may notice a Via Mil Creamy Cole Slaw Cumbres intersecting Lomas Santa Fe at Rolls and Butter. a signal just after the Vons shopping The Ring will also supply beverages center. Ignore this one and stay on and dessert. Lomas Santa Fe Dr. The next left will again be Via Mil Cumbres, and this is Following the meal and official where you turn. business (e.g. awards and swearing in — Jeff Marcus/James Thayer Lorenzo Clark Published by the International Brotherhood of Magicians Honest Sid Gerhart Ring 76 Editor James Thayer — [email protected] © 2011 I.B.M. Ring 76 MagiCurrents — July 2011 Page 2 Ring 76 Hosts Dean We Were BIG at the Fair! Martin … Lewis, That Is Ring 76 had a major presence at this year’s San Diego County Fair. Terry Godfrey was the Fair’s At our June meeting, we elected officers for the "resident" magician, and also kicked things off with coming year, and the Member of the Year. We also a pre-Fair "blindfolded" drive in Bob Meigs’ car. voted on a constitutional amendment requiring Terry had three regular shows every day, and often candidates for the presidency to have previously performed prior to opening of the front gate. served in another Board position. Bob Meigs had a half hour slot every day of the President Kenny Shelton called the meeting to Fair, in which he either performed his "Cabinet of order at 7PM. Bob Meigs announced that Ring 76 Curiosities" show, or had guest performers from had stage time for its members to perform at the Ring 76. Guest performers included Alex 2011 San Diego County Fair. Ballots were handed Greenbaum, Greg Waussen, Kenny Shelton, Jeff out, and Terry Lunceford introduced Martin Lewis.. Marcus, Toni Perrine, Joe Mystic, and Loch David Martin’s lecture included Undivided , Technicolor Crane. I had never seen many of these people do a Prediction, a watch vanish with a Senor Mardo egg whole half hour show, and I must say, we have bag, Crystal Gazing, Comedy Comeback Card, and, some GREAT talent in this club. I cannot let the or course, Cardiographic. The magic was nothing opportunity pass to say that Kenny put on a great short of supurb – enhanced by Martin’s wonderful show, and had a bevy of beauty queens eating out sense of humor. This observer will be adding of his hand. several of Martin’s routines to his act immediately. Bob Meigs and Terry Godfrey again hosted the (Or so I thought! I wound up with someone else’s magic camp, Abra-Kid-Abbra, for small fry every stuff, and my purchases were home with them! Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday. And Terry Turned out Kenny had mine, and we got it Lunceford and Joe Mystic put on two one-hour straightened out eventually.) shows on Saturday, June 25. At the end of the meeting, the results of the officer This was far and away the most magic ever done at elections were announced: Preseident, Kenny the San Diego County Fair. We can do even more Shelton; 1st Vice President, Syd Segal; 2nd Vice next year if we’d like, but there are a few obstacles. President, James Thayer; Treasurer, Richard Ustick; The Fair has a few constraints we didn’t know Secretary, Bob Meigs; Sgt.-at-Arms, Derek about – no knives (including card swords), guns, or Ostovani; Mebers at Large, Donna Greenbaum, open flame (including candles). Also, no "blue" Sherry Luft, and Joe Mystic. humor or political jokes. Nothing we can’t work The amendment requiring candidates for the around, but I apologize to all who performed there presidency to have previously served in another for not having this information earlier. Board position passed unanimously. Anyway, I certainly enjoyed the Ring 76 magic at The ballots for Member of the Year were counted, the Fair, and hope to see it become a tradition – but the winner will not be announced until the both for us and the Fair! Awards/Officer Installation Banquet in July. — Bob Meigs Then, of course, we all headed for Rudford’s, for what we thought might be our last post-Lions Club get together. (More on that in another article.) — Bob Meigs San Diego Ring 76, International Brotherhood of Magicians © 2011 I.B.M. Ring 76 MagiCurrents — July 2011 Page 3 Photos from the June Meeting Undivided — Torn and Restored Rolling Paper The Mardo Egg Bag Crystal Gazing San Diego Ring 76, International Brotherhood of Magicians © 2011 I.B.M. Ring 76 MagiCurrents — July 2011 Page 4 Photos from the June Meeting Comedy Comeback Card Cardiographic McAbee Rings San Diego Ring 76, International Brotherhood of Magicians © 2011 I.B.M. Ring 76 MagiCurrents — July 2011 Page 5 won’t hurt.." Introducing I predict Max Maven’s the element of danger is sure to alert. "Multiplicity" is sure to Similarly, should Max’s educate, fascinate, effect, with a potential for real hurt when by making entertain. the wrong choice -in this instance between a brown Choose one or all of these. paper bag which contains You will choose them all. a brick rather than a feather, the falling brick by Max Mavin landing on the spectators hand would be sure to Reviewed by Joel A. Moskowitz M D injure. Of course, that doesn’t happen. Burger is July 05, 2011 cheerfully safe when a feather floats down on his hand; not the brick! Max has achieved high audience "Multiplicity" according to the Collins English attention. Dictionary, in physical terms, relates to the number of levels into which the energy of an atom, molecule, or The teaching begins: he talks about the historical basis nucleus splits as a result of coupling between orbital for the concept of Eqivocae - specially attributed to angular momentum and spin angular momemtum. The Ted Anneman. He then presents a basic Equivocae author of this L&L DVD may have chosen this title situation. There is a choice of three cards (one being because his father was a professor of Astrophysics at ‘right’) the spectator is told to lift one card with one Brandeis University. hand at a time. The aim is to emphasize that you, the magician/ "Multiplicity" is for the thinking mentalist, knew which choice the magician or mentalist who wants to spectator would make all along. expand her/his understanding of the Then Maven (whose translation is ‘he subject where the spectator is given who knows’) illustrates the ‘how’. "Choices" and the conjurer must have suitable "Outs" as in Equivocae. In his 20s, Max wrote "Verbal Equivocae may be defined as having Control". In it, he suggested that it two or more interpretations and helps if you urge the spectator usually used to mislead, or confuse along. Knowledgable Equivocae fans with intent to deceive. will know how this helps to distract the spectator. Since the 70s — Author/producer/actor/scholar/ except for the work of David Berglas thinker Max Maven's ideas on these — Max reports that there is not much subjects will not disappoint. Not only new but then proceeds to instruct is there much to learn but the that because it is based on ‘old’ student/viewer is promised to enjoy principles, it should nevertheless not this DVD as well. be discarded. Max’s opening effect is sure to get the viewer’s The problem with Equivocae is that it seems that the attention.