2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Over the weekend, I went through to Edinburgh to see some of the goings on at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe (aka The Fringe). Now in its 60th year, The Fringe has now become more popular than the actual Edinburgh International Festival itself with hundreds of shows on over the 3-week period that it runs, […]

Funny stuff

Hi folks This is just a random post with a video clip (again from youtube.com) of one of the funniest acceptance speeches ever. It is from the MTV Movie Awards and Gollum from The Lord Of The Rings Movies is accepting the “Best Virtual Character” award. Enjoy! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4vaOL2hiCw&w=425&h=350] Speak soon! The Cardman 🙂

More FISM 2006-related stuff

Right now, I’m in the process of trying to sort out my pictures from my trip to the 2006 FISM World Championships of Magic before I post any more stuff up about my trip. For now, however, I’d like to share a couple of videoclips that have been posted on youtube.com of acts that were […]

FISM 2006 Close Up Competiton

On Monday afternoon, the first day of FISM 2006, I managed to get a seat in the main room for this year’s Close Up Competition. It was the only time in the entire week that I would even attempt to get into the main room. With only 260 seats, space was at a premium. Next […]

FISM 2006, Stockholm, Sweden

I wanted to be able to post up more often, but things have been a bit crazier than I thought they would be this year. Mind you, it’s been a lot of fun. The standard of the Close Up Competition varied from brilliant to downright awful, with only one act being disqualified by the judges […]