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Palisades Amusement Park, 1932

23 Saturday Feb 2019

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1932, barker, diver, history, magic, New Jersey, Palisades Amusement Park, roller coaster, sideshow

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If you grew up listening to AM radio in the New York City area during the 60s, you probably can remember the Palisades Amusement Park jingle:

Palisades has the rides,
Palisades has the fun,
Come On Over [….]

Ride the coaster,
Get cool,
In the waves in the pool.
You’ll have fun, so,
Come On Over.

Palisades Amusement Park opened in 1910, and didn’t close until some sixty years later.  The 1932 footage here is actual park footage with real sound, and not from a movie.  I had to laugh at the woman’s “disappearance.” Perhaps the vanish took so long because it took time to move the gorilla aside to make room? I wonder if there was a reason for making the trick so obvious. The roller coaster was called The Cyclone but it wasn’t the same as the one in Coney Island. Click on the video above for a carefree time.

Thanks to YouTuber guy jones

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Dar Williams: When I Was A Boy

22 Friday Feb 2019

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Dar Williams, music, performance, song, songwriting, When I Was A Boy

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Dar Williams, singing one of the most poignant songs I know.

Thanks to YouTuber WNRN

 

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School Of Rock

21 Thursday Feb 2019

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Guadeloupe, photography, rocks, stream, travel, waterfall

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Cascade aux Ecrevisses

Deshaies, Guadeloupe

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Aqua Vitae

20 Wednesday Feb 2019

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cartoon, comedy, fish, just water for me, Paul Noth, restaurant

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Paul Noth in The New Yorker

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“And The Walls Came Tumbling Down”

18 Monday Feb 2019

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gospel, jazz, Joshua FIt the Battle of Jericho, Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho, Mahalia Jackson, music, performance, song, walls

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Monday morning, Mahalia Jackson suggests extra-legislative means to erase borders with “Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho.”

Thanks to YouTuber Paulo LaPraga Vinhal

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“That Was Not A Compliment”: The Smothers Brothers

17 Sunday Feb 2019

Posted by Jack Shalom in Comedy, Life, Music, Performance, Writing

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anniversary, comedy, Pete Seeger, Smothers Brothers, television, Waist Deep in the Big Muddy

 

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In 1969, CBS television fired the Smothers Brothers from their high-rated comedy variety show for being too outspoken against the Vietnam War. Among other things, they had on blacklisted guest Pete Seeger who sang “Waist Deep In The Big Muddy,” an anti-war song about a captain who orders his men into a bog despite the obvious senselessness of the command.

You can read more about that incident here:

https://portside.org/2018-03-02/recalling-pete-seegers-controversial-performance-smothers-brothers-show-50-years-ago

and I’ll post video of Pete’s remarkable performance in the comments.

Twenty years later, however, things had changed somewhat and the Brothers were invited to do a 20th anniversary special for CBS. Click on the video above to see how they opened the show.

Thanks to YouTuber Kehlog Albran

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Online Ordering

16 Saturday Feb 2019

Posted by Jack Shalom in Life, Magic

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Aronson, card magic, cards, magic, magicians, memdeck, NDO, New Deck Order, Tamariz

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There are Third World Problems, First World Problems, and then there are Conjurers’ World Problems. This is to address one of the latter.

From time to time, a magician needs a deck of cards to be arranged back in the original factory order after it’s been all shuffled up and disordered. Magicians call that original factory order New Deck Order or NDO. Surprisingly, there’s no industry standardized order. It varies according to card manufacturer and even varies from brand to brand manufactured by the same company. So, for example, Bicycle brand cards are ordered in a different arrangement from Bee brand cards, even though they are both manufactured by the United States Playing Card Company. Next time you open up a new pack of cards, check the order. You might find it interesting.

The most popular brand of cards, Bicycles, are arranged from top to bottom in the following order (take a guess first before you read on):

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Ace to King of Hearts, Ace to King of Clubs, King to Ace of Diamonds, and King to Ace of Spades.

So suppose the cards are all mixed up, and you want to get them back into the original order—not that you are trying to do it secretly, you just want to do it quickly. What do you do? Well, yes, the logical thing to do is to make four piles on a table, one for each suit, and sort out the cards that way.

But often a performer doesn’t have a table available, so sometimes an in-the-hands-sort is useful. Here’s a method i came up with a few years ago of how to sort a deck of cards quickly into Bicycle NDO when no table is available. Later, I’ll talk about how to generalize the process to make it even more useful to magicians.

1) Hold the deck face up in the left hand, facing you. Spread through the deck without changing its order and, using your right hand,  as you come to each black card, upjog it about halfway. Then, with your right hand, swing out all the black cards to the face of deck.

2) Run through the deck again, upjogging all the Spades and Diamonds. Swing out this half to the face of deck.

3) Spread the bottom thirteen Spades and arrange them in order with the right hand as if arranging a bridge hand. That is, holding the deck facing you in the left hand, spread the thirteen Spades out in a fan so that you can see all the pips. Now with your right hand, fingers pointing down, palm facing you, thumb closest to your body, pick out the King of Spades from above; next scan the cards and pick out the Queen of Spades on top of that, then the Jack of Spades and so on until the Ace of Spades is on the face of that small packet. Then just cut those thirteen Spades to the top of the deck.

4) Repeat with the next three suits (remembering that for Clubs and Hearts., you will reverse that order, pulling out the Ace first, then the Two on top of that and so on up to the King). You are now in Bicycle NDO. You’ll see that after just a bit of practice you can arrange the whole deck quite quickly.

But here’s the part I’ve been saving for magicians. Getting into NDO is nice, but even more useful is to get into a memdeck arrangement like Aronson or Tamariz quickly in the hands. This can be done for any stack by generalizing the above:

To generalize for any stack:

1) Upjog all cards within the ranges of 14-26 and 40-52, and cut to the face of deck.

2) Upjog all cards within the ranges of 27-52 and cut to the face of the deck.

3) Spread thirteen cards at a time from the face and put them in ascending order, then cut them to the back of deck.

4) Repeat three more times.

The first step is the hardest to get down, but if you know your stack cold, you’ll soon get it. I find that by using this method, I can stack Aronson order in my hands as fast as on a table.

Done. Next job: Solving world hunger and the exploitation of workers by bosses.

Hint: threads, mirrors, and a good Double Lift.

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(Un)Acceptable Losses

15 Friday Feb 2019

Posted by Jack Shalom in Life, Music, Photography, Writing

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Critical Art Ensemble, death, installation, museum, photography, politics, war, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Mseum

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Installation  at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild by The Critical Art Ensemble

Woodstock, New York

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All I Want

14 Thursday Feb 2019

Posted by Jack Shalom in Life, Music

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All I want, Folk music, Joni Mitchell, Josh Turner, Kami Maltz, music, song, songwriting

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Kami Maltz, with accompaniment from Josh Turner, hits those exuberant Joni Mitchell high notes, in one of my favorite Joni Mitchell songs.

More at Josh Turner Guitar

 

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That’s What They’d Like You To Believe

13 Wednesday Feb 2019

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Airplane, airport, In a while you will be fine bag, NOrwegian AIrlines, sign, vomit bag

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That feeling when you’ve been away for a week and you come back to the country, and  it’s crazier than ever, though no one seems to notice.

Norwegian Airlines, JFK Airport,

New York City

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Sunset

10 Sunday Feb 2019

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Deshaies, Guadeloupe, photography, Sunset

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Deshaies, Guadeloupe

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Shin Lim Meets Larry King: Hilarity Ensues

09 Saturday Feb 2019

Posted by Jack Shalom in Life, Magic, Performance

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card magic, cards, Larry King, magic, performance, Shin Lim

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In a jaw-dropping turn around, it’s interviewer Larry King who stuns magician Shin Lim. You can actually feel Shin Lim thinking WTF is going on here. Who is this guy?

Larry King. Greatest. Spectator. Ever.

Reports that Mr. King was replaced in this video by a head of cabbage are still under investigation.

More of Larry’s magic at Larry King

 

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Star Wars Subway Car

07 Thursday Feb 2019

Posted by Jack Shalom in Comedy, Life, Performance, Theatre

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comedy, Improv Everywhere, performance, Star Wars, subway, theater, theatre

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The folks at Improv Everywhere up to their old tricks again.

More at Improv Everywhere

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Texting For Godot

06 Wednesday Feb 2019

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cartoon, comedy, play, texting, theater, theatre, Waiting For Godot, writing

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Benjamin Schwartz in The New Yorker

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Royal Flush

05 Tuesday Feb 2019

Posted by Jack Shalom in Comedy, Life

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coffee shop, comedy, enema, sign

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Avenue P

Brooklyn, New York

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Fourth World Problems

03 Sunday Feb 2019

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animals, Ben Schwartz, cartoon, comedy, polar bears, The New Yorker

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Benjamin Schwartz in The New Yorker

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“A Wise Word…” Sholom Aleichem

02 Saturday Feb 2019

Posted by Jack Shalom in Books, Comedy, Life, Writing

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books, comedy, quotations, Sholom Aleichem, writer, writing

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I’ve been working on a radio project about the Russian humorist and storyteller, Sholom Aleichem, and while researching his life, I came across some quotes of his that you may enjoy. Like Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde, there are so many quotable writings, that the problem becomes limiting oneself to only a few. Here are some of my favorites.

 

* “And books — she swallows like dumplings.”

 

* “While I kept playing chess with him, his mind was elsewhere. I took his queen and he took my Rose.”

 

* Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

 

* The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

 

* When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you… Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.

 

* No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

 

* A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

 

* If somebody tells you that you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you so, buy yourself a saddle.

 

* This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn’t weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source of my good spirit, of my humor. Not to cry, out of spite, only to laugh out of spite, only to laugh.

 

* A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

 

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With thanks to the following websites:

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/sholom_aleichem

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/18362.Sholom_Aleichem

https://www.azquotes.com/author/210-Sholom_Aleichem

 

 

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A Trip Through New York City: 1911

01 Friday Feb 2019

Posted by Jack Shalom in Life, Photography

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ferry, Flatiron building, history, New York City, video

 

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An extraordinary video with corrected speed. The poster did a great job of adding ambient sound to enhance the overall effect of the video. I was surprised to see the Flatiron building and the intersection where it is located so recognizable over a hundred years later. How many locations do you recognize?

Thanks to YouTuber guy jones

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Watch Dog

31 Thursday Jan 2019

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dog, mosaic, mural, photography, street photography, subway

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23rs Street subway station

New York City, New York

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The Psycho Psychiatrists

30 Wednesday Jan 2019

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comedy, Fry and Laurie, Hugh Laurie, performance, psychiatrists, sketch, Stephen Fry, writing

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In which the psychoanalytical Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are exceedingly patients with each other.

Thanks to YouTuber ShutTFup

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Round The Bend

29 Tuesday Jan 2019

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cartoon, comedy, No Worries, Roz Chast, The New Yorker

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Roz Chast in The New Yorker

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The Scorpion And The Tortoise

26 Saturday Jan 2019

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fable, mosaic, photography, scorpion, street life, street photography, subway, tortoise

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81st Street Subway station

New York, New York

Everyone’s favorite conman, Whit “Pop” Haydn, is fond of the tale of “The Scorpion and  The Tortoise.” As time goes on, I have become more and more appreciative of this little instructive fable. It goes like this…

A scorpion asks a tortoise if he could take a ride on the tortoise’s back in order to cross the deep waters of the local river. The tortoise replies that he’s no fool—the scorpion will just sting him as they go across the river. But the scorpion answers, “No, no worries, you’re protected; for if I went and stung you, you’d die, and then I’d drown in the middle of the river. It’s simple logic, you’ve got a fail-safe situation here.”

The tortoise thinks it over for a few minutes and then agrees. The scorpion hops on the tortoise’s back and off they go. In the exact center of the river, however, at its deepest part, sure enough, the scorpion stings the tortoise. The tortoise, in agonized death throes, sputters out, “What in God’s name have you done? We’re both going to die now! How could you?”

And the scorpion, now about to be enveloped in the deadly deep water, just manages to eke out, “I’m a scorpion. It’s my nature.”

 

 

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Essential Non-Essentials

25 Friday Jan 2019

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comedy, Conan O'Brian, furlough, Jordan Schlansky, performance, television

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Conan O’Brien seeks staff to furlough. But I’m surprised he doesn’t understand that the real trick is to get them to work for nothing.

More Conan at Team Coco

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“We Think You’re Just Sensational”

24 Thursday Jan 2019

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Angela Lansbury, dance, Jerry Herman, Mame, musical, performance, song, songwriting, theater, theatre, Tony Awards

 

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Angela Lansbury in one of her signature roles at the 1975 Tony Awards.

About two-thirds of the way through the clip, Lansbury gets surprised by a guest dancer. Don’t miss it. The look on her face is wonderful. (If you don’t recognize who it is, I’ll post his identity in the comments.)

Thanks to YouTuber kotlicek

 

 

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Hit Or Myth

23 Wednesday Jan 2019

Posted by Jack Shalom in Comedy, Life, Writing

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Ben Schwartz, cartoon, comedy, rock, Sisyphus, The New Yorker

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Benjamin Schwartz in The New Yorker

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  • Palisades Amusement Park, 1932 February 23, 2019
  • Dar Williams: When I Was A Boy February 22, 2019
  • School Of Rock February 21, 2019
  • Aqua Vitae February 20, 2019
  • Standing Rock February 19, 2019
  • “And The Walls Came Tumbling Down” February 18, 2019
  • “That Was Not A Compliment”: The Smothers Brothers February 17, 2019
  • Online Ordering February 16, 2019
  • (Un)Acceptable Losses February 15, 2019
  • All I Want February 14, 2019
  • That’s What They’d Like You To Believe February 13, 2019
  • Just Deserts February 12, 2019
  • Gold Dust At My Feet February 11, 2019
  • Sunset February 10, 2019
  • Shin Lim Meets Larry King: Hilarity Ensues February 9, 2019
  • The Times They Are A-Changin’ February 8, 2019
  • Star Wars Subway Car February 7, 2019
  • Texting For Godot February 6, 2019
  • Royal Flush February 5, 2019
  • Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes February 4, 2019
  • Fourth World Problems February 3, 2019
  • “A Wise Word…” Sholom Aleichem February 2, 2019
  • A Trip Through New York City: 1911 February 1, 2019
  • Watch Dog January 31, 2019
  • The Psycho Psychiatrists January 30, 2019
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