Not Magic

I didn’t find House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski hard to read. Yes that’s how I’m opening my review. I’ve seen pictures of copies of the book with a bunch of those colored sticky bookmarks poking out. Real fans will say that you’re supposed to do that to narplay the dudes exploring the house. Maybe I’m used to holding text in my head because I often read while simulatneously moving my hands. (I’m a magician.) Maybe I’m built different or maybe I just missed out on like 99% of the book.

A huge winter storm is impacting the midwest and eastern United States. Over ten thousand flights were cancelled. That’s a crazy number to think about. I know of multiple people who had trouble leaving Columbus post Magifest.

Never underestimate the snow. I’ve postponed and cancelled gigs because I wasn’t able to safely attend. People will understand. (There’s also the risk that the event organizer will cancel and we all know that people aren’t always good at communication.)

Last week I posted about a great magical scene in the latest Daredevil tv series. I recently watched the finale and it was pretty bad. Not so bad that it discredits the previous article but pretty bad.

The plot point about the Red Hook area being a “free state” and not technically a part of America is sooooo silly. Like seriously. There’s no way that America would be ok with a city of criminals at the edge of NYC. It’s also completely out of character that Matt wouldn’t immediately go through all of Foggy’s files after the murder.