Magic Ian

Magicians have lost some of their social standing over the last few [hundred] years. Go back a couple or three thousand years and magicians were advisors to the Pharoah, doing battle with Biblical heroes! In medieval times Merlin sat at the right hand of Arthur, King of the Britons! Well, not anymore. What do we have these days? Derren Brown not shooting himself and David Blaine by the Thames in a Perspex cube. C’mon guys, think outside the box. I reckon we need to rediscover some of our old-skool apparatus. Gandalf and Merlin had a Dark Staff of Power to demonstrate their awesome magical ability. What does the modern day magic man use? A deck of playing cards? Watch out for paper cuts! Whaddya gonna do, shuffle them at someone? Or they produce bunny rabbits, without doubt the one creature that needs no help in the production department. Surely if we can actually perform magic we should be ending world hunger or solving crimes or something, not doing card tricks. A magician doing card tricks is like a sky diver jumping off a very small step- 'I’m gonna freefall over SIX inches!!' [That’s not as far as you think guys.]