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The Weight of a Card
A card box that won’t let go, one word on a playing card, and two blocks in the freezing cold. A story from the upcoming book, Magic without Tricks.Continue readingThe Weight of a Card
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Laundromat Mystery
A Red Bull ad sent me back to a Bensonhurst laundromat and a cartoon undertaker on the wall:…
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Places
456Brooklyn Bridge City Hall Places November 2, 2025 · vlad.blog Stand clear of the closing doors. Next stop,…
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Digital Ghosts
Digital GhostsDigital GhostsDigital Ghosts August 30, 2024 · vlad.blog I was swallowed by digital silence. Step oneCut open…
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Forgotten Words & Magic Drawers: The Stories we Never Told
From the bottom drawer August 29, 2024 Forgotten Words & Magic Drawers The Stories we Never Told scroll…
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Punchable Faces – Magic Challenge Week 4
The story of how Jake Dapper got punched in the face, and how this whole mess got started.…
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Tricks on a stretcher
Week two of the magic challenge, where I have to perform a trick for a different person every…
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The Magic Challenge
“…one must have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.”— From Thus Spoke Zarathustra by…
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The Past and the Furious
What Chris Rock and I have in common, and how to get punched by fate.Continue readingThe Past and…
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Mindbender Episode 3 – Spies and Lullabies
It’s finally up – Episode 3 of my podcast, Mindbender! In this episode: spies and lullabies. What are…
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The time my family won the lottery, and other Snapple Facts
Snapple Fact Number 196: If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.12.…
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How to read 52 books in 52 days
Chapter 1 of the Sufferer’s Cookbook We call it the shit factory. In Sheepshead Bay there’s a sewage…
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