Well duh! :) But just because I’m biased, doesn’t mean I’m wrong.

This is actually a good story for Texas. This politician didn’t just wake up and decide to do this. This has been important for the magic community for some time (as the article says, it opens up grant money to magicians and magical education programs). The most recent president of the Society of American Magicians is…

Nope. While Houdini’s shows certainly involved escapes (and they were is most high profile stunts), magic and illusions were always a part of his shows.

Hey, no reason to hate one this. Like the article says, this bill is important for some people as it deals with the allocation of federal funds for arts related purposes. Only reason that the GOP is behind it is because the former head of the Society of American Magicians is from Texas and made it his mission to get…

Actually it is referring to cases of magicians inventing new things for tricks, and those inventions later being repurposed for general use. It’s like with NASA (but obviously on a different scale). You set out to find a solution to one problem and inadvertently solve a few others along the way.

Professional magician here. A little background on this. While this sounds silly, it is, like the article points out, kind of important for magic to be classified as an “art” for purposes of grant money allocation. The reason that a republican is behind this is not because of any of the usual reasons you might think…