Soon I will Have To Wean Myself Off This Blog...

I will have to move into our website proper soon... But we will keep this "blog" active too until all the content has been transferred...

Last night's EMC2011 Opus talk went ok, the trouble is when some jokes went down better than expected we wandered "off piste" a bit and it got a bit messy... even after Chris and I had spent more time rehearsing this talk than anything we had before...

As it was last year the conference is superb on many different levels... so many interesting people with a real passion for magic... it is excellent...

More Keyboard Bashing

Another warm day with the sun about to break through here in Central Portugal.

The Opus Magazine presentation for this year's EMC progresses as slowly but as remorselessly as each of the 60 issues (so far) did way back when...

...no being late with this though!

EMC2011

EMC2011 is taking over my life!

Chris sends me thoughts and ideas from London... I do likewise to him from Portugal...

Slowly, oh so slowly, the talk is prepared...

Been at it for hours today...

So many tales to tell... but only 18 minutes.

My head hurts...

Have just arrived back in Portugal (long term now)...

After seeing the work being completed on the swimming pool at Estudio 33, it was straight to work on the EMC presentation.

The Wagon cannot enter the LEZ so the mountain had to come to Mohammed and Chris

"trained" it out to Boreham Wood (not many Socialist Worker Party Members noticed wandering around there) for a Wagon meeting lasting hours and hours...

...Here in sun drenched Central Portugal work is already under way preparing the venue for the conference... and staggering number of man hours will be put in to make sure this year's EMC builds on the fantastic success of last year's breakthough event...

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Special EMC Opus offer...

I expect you all already know but just in case you don't...

All subscribers to EMC 2011 will be getting a PDF copy of the first volume of Opus Magazine as a thank you for supporting this year's EMC Conference...

Waiting for my son to finish work...

Parked up and writing more of the Opus talk whilst waiting for my son to finish work... it is his birthday tomorrow so we are going for a drink before I return to Bath...

Today I wrote of the...

Photo copied issue on Billy McComb's coffee table in Hollywood...

Bill the Printer running off with his next door neighbours wife...

The scandal of the artists' "hotel"rooms at a British Ring IBM convention...

Watching a Scandinavian Star flicking through an issue of Opus containing a highly critical review of his work...

and so on... no doubt much will be edited out by the one who does the pictures!

Cripes... Busy, Busy, Busy...

Slaving away over the back issues of Opus noting down stuff that I had forgotten about (just reading an article from the first volume by Eugene Burger)... and making copious notes...

Getting calls from Portugal, phoning London, emailing New York... and fretting over how Chris and I can condense all this material down into the 18 minute talk at the EMC in July... and all this done from the back of a van in a field in middle England!

There will be some extra special news coming out very soon... you could follow it here or, better still, make sure EMC has your details and then you will be kept up to date on all aspects of this year's conference...

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Work on EMC talk continues...

Chris and I are thrilled to be presenting a talk on Opus Magazine at EMC 2011 this July.

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We have been talking and talking about it for several months now and are at the stage of writing stuff down...

Going back through the pages of the magazine brings memories flooding back... there is so much stuff in there... so many stories... so little time...

The talk is 18 mins long so a lot will have to be left out!

Up at 8.20am this morning and at the laptop by 9.00am...

This is not normal...

Just remembered the sight of an international star of close up approaching our stand at FISM 88 furious about a review of a book of his we had published...

To know more youwill need to be there!