Visit http://www.kidabra.com/ and see what I am talking about. The Convention will begin on August 20, 2003 in Gatlinburg, Tennessee and has a staff scheduled that truly is the who’s who among the kid-show performers. If you do kid-shows, if you have kids, you were once were a kid, if you can spell kid, if you are a young goat⁴, you need to check out this site.

As we get closer to the convention, we’ll keep you up to date on the conclave and the entertainers scheduled to appear. If you want more direct information, there even have a link to register for their newsletter at: Click here.

P.S. to the person who sent me the other email, I am moved to pity but there is nothing I can do to help your poor, impoverished friends. I will keep them in my thoughts but please don’t send me any more of the emails, I can’t take the sorrow.

¹Stark Contrast was the title of my first movie. I played a young and na?ve tanning room attendant looking for the perfect tan and finding only first degree burns and a broken heart. It is still available as a training video for tanning bed operators under the title Don’t Do This or You’ll Burn to Death. They had to take out the funky soundtrack though.

²Despite the suggestion that we are biased in our belief that Trixie Bond is the finest Kid Show performer in the history of mankind, we continue to confer that title on her. We conducted a lengthy review of every Kid Show performer that were as kind to Inside Magic as Trixie and found that she was still our favorite. If this makes us biased, then so be it.

³We have replaced some of the unfortunate word choices used by these poor, starving, naked urchins. It makes sense that if they are unable to afford food or clothing, they are also probably unable to afford a proper education where they would learn that there are nicer words they could use to describe their poverty of spirit. Ironically, perhaps if they had been influenced by the kind Kid Show Performers to found at KIDabra, they might have learned nicer words to describe their impoverishment.

Cute: But Cannot Perform Even Simple Tricks

⁴This is a joke. A young goat is called a “kid” so I thought I would make a funny by saying it here. I don’t really expect that a goat (young or old) would be reading this webpage. Their hooves are too wide for conventional keyboards and they have such a limited knowledge of magic. In fact, Dai Vernon once said, “To a goat, a second deal is only a dream. He is lucky to perfect the Ball and Vase or some other self-working dimestore novelty.” But the Professor was much more praising of other animal magicians, in a letter to a friend, Dai wrote, “A chicken is well-equipped to perform mentalism. With his beak, he can mark cards or even force a card using a equivoque. The chicken is, however, absolutely unable to do a center-tear or billet switch.”