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The Unmagic of the BBC

September 15, 2014 – 7:37 am

Varanasi on the Ganges River is one of the oldest cities in the world and considered by many to be the spiritual center of India. Archaeologists date its origin to over three thousand years ago and Siddhartha formulated the tenets of Buddhism upstream at Sarnath in a sermon entitled ‘Turning the Wheel of Law’ in […]

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To Catch A Bullet

March 22, 2014 – 11:11 am

Testing bulletproof vests is a snap in comparison to the magic trick of catching a bullet in your teeth. The feat was first performed in 1631 and remains a staple of magicians. The set-up involved a gun expert who loaded a marked buller into a gun and then fired the gun. The bullet struck a […]

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The Fatality of Infidelity in Thailand

May 18, 2012 – 12:56 pm

Several years ago my friend, Sam Royalle, suspected his girlfriend was seeing another man. “It wouldn’t bother me if he was farang, but I think he’s Thai.” “How do you know that?” I always have suspected that the reason Thai girls insist of showering after sex is to erase any evidence of sex, although the […]

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Oh No No Sex

May 10, 2012 – 5:45 pm

Witches were fearsome creatures in my youth. These wanton women consorted with Satan and their roaming succubi seduced the souls of pure men. Throughout the 70s and 80s I ran into their decadent descendants finally meeting Elena, a Spanish flamenco dancer. We lived together in my East Village apartment for several months. My bed became […]

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Internet Magic

May 10, 2012 – 4:47 pm

The Catholic Church hated witches. The Protestants weren’t much better. Believers in the Old Ways were burned at the stake by the tens of thousands. Twenty-eight people were hung or killed in the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. The last such case to come before a court was the 1878 American civil trial in Ipswich, Massachusetts, […]

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