IBM 210 – SAM 88
I’ve sat down to write this multiple times and never satisfied with what I was writing. It all seemed to come around to coming home so we’re going to go with that this month. The Bay Area Renaissance Festival (BARF) has closed its last show of the 2025 season. Adversity or more importantly, overcoming adversity. … Read more
Funny Bones We are making some security updates to the AAMC Website. Viewer’s will be presented with a challenge to ensure they are human and not robots. Rings of Yore Today a special article from the August 1971 Linking Rings reporting on the clubs Charter Day. “Linking Ring Vol 51 Issue 8”, Aug 1971, p. … Read more
Calendar of Events Our April Meeting will be our Close-up Showcase. We will arrange the tables into small, close up settings. Entrants will get the opportunity to perform multiple times. Spectators will rotate and watch each performer. Please bring friends and family to this month’s meeting to act as additional spectators. Everyone welcome. Performers… Michael … Read more
For Show and Tell at our March meeting Dan Jones brought another piece from his magic collection purchased in the 1980’s. It’s titled “Mirage” and it’s a unique display piece for a magic room or man cave. The observer tries to press the button on the flying saucer shaped device but when they try to … Read more
As a reoccurring feature of the Magic Messenger we will highlight a member and ask them to answer a few questions about themselves. This month the “Spotlight” is on April Barrett. April may only have joined the club a few years ago, but she is an active participant as you can see from the photos … Read more
We kicked off the meeting with magic from our featured performer Phil Mann the Magic Mann. Phil kicked us off with a little novelty paratrooper from magic wand. Then he displayed a bucket (duck) and proceeded to produce a variety of not-to-wild animals. First was a raccoon, which Phil (Mann, not to be confused with … Read more
Phil Mann (M-A-N-N) the Magic Mann (M-A-N-N) (right) wows the members as he produces a bear (left) from a bear bucket as our March featured performer. Or is it a duck bucket?