Once upon a time, I was a magicians assistant. My solo trick involved making a duck appear in a tray of fire. There were two of us. We were called the Moxie Twins. We wore fishnets and corsets and fake eyelashes. We practiced in a crumbling theatre with dim lights, musty velvet curtains, and rain snaking down the walls from the cracks in the ceiling and windows. I wanted to live in that old theatre. After our big show, the magician gave me my handbook and promised me that I would be sawn in half at the next show. But I couldn’t do the next show, and then I was pregnant…and then life started happening and I never stepped foot in that theatre again. But this is my handbook. It’s what I have left, even if it is outright bizarre.
Great selling points…200 words?!
AUTOGRAPHED, BITCHES.
also, I just want to clarify, I did not assist Mr. Bones, the magical kid’s party pirate.
Just the serious-as-shit adult show.
And it was not pirate themed.
Pam Thompson. You complete me.
Who wants more?
I’ve got magician’s assistant handbook gold, here.
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ahahahaha, this is wonderful! I applied and auditioned to be a magicians assistant once a while back. Sadly, my magician turned out to be a dirty old man that just had a penchant for young women in tiny costumes. YUCK.
Ew :/ find a new magician – it’s seriously one of the most awesome things I’ve ever done
I love this and I vote that you share more of it! If the rest of the world does not agree then you can email it to me
Haha will do
Awesome! Looks like an interesting book. The cutting the assistant in half always terrified me as a child— and I still don’t like it, even though I know it’s “magic” it really just weirds me out!
Yeah I know….I still don’t know how they do it :/
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