Bob Read

The terms “genius” and “legend” are, in my opinion, used far too often. Having said that, they were perfect for describing Bob Read, whose passing was announced earlier today whilst he was on holiday in California. As a performer, he could leave an audience helpless with laughter and baffled by his brilliant magic all in […]

Magician’s Only

When I had the original site up and running, one of the things I wanted to do was have effects published from some of my friends. I am in the very lucky position to have met and got to know some of the best magicians in the World. Most of them specialise in Close Up […]

2005 Scottish 9-Ball Championships

This year’s Scottish 9-Ball Championships took place a few weeks ago at Styx in Kirkcaldy and, as always at that particular club, a great time was had by all. As last year, a gang of Irish players (25 in total) came over for a fun weekend of pool, drinking and anything else they could (legally) […]

2005 US Open 9-Ball Championships

So I’m not one to brag, but… Mid-September saw the 30th edition of the US Open 9-Ball Championships and my first trip to Chesapeake, Virginia. If you are a pool fan or a pool player and you ever get the chance to go, take it with both hands and don’t let go! The best players […]

A word about the links

I’ve posted up a whole bunch of links to different sites that interest me. Hopefully, some of them will interest you, too. I hope to re-jig the “Magicians Only” section of my original website in the next few days so that magicians can access the material there fairly quickly. I want to get the material […]

The start of The Cardman’s blog…

So, welcome to my blog. This all started with a website that I started building as part of a Web Design course that I did one evening a week at college. The only drawback is that I hardly ever sat down to post new stuff up. I was full of good ideas for it, too. […]