Jan 11
The Magic Castle hasn't changed much since Orson Welles taped an early cable special there 50 years ago.
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The Magic Castle hasn't changed much since Orson Welles taped an early cable special there 50 years ago.
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Do you guys think at some point after Sam and Nate ran from the orphanage, that they hitchhiked to California, and Sam at some point snuck Nate with him into the Magic Castle?
Do you think he stole him a pack of cards or a plush rabbit from the gift shop? Do you think he tried to outwit the magicians at every turn? Or specifically stay silent, even if he knows the trick, so it could keep being magic for Nate? Do you think he ever had to reluctantly drag Nate away from chatting with the magicians after each show about how great that was, because Nate would start talking a little too loud, and security would start looking at them a little too closely to realize they weren't exactly obeying the dress code, because they didn't quite have enough money saved up for properly fitting dress pants?
Do you think they spent the next ten blocks after it closed with Nate loudly exclaiming how magical that was and how he thinks each trick went down and how he would've done it if he got to work there, and Sam would just smile, hands in his pockets, patting himself on the back for finally giving them both a distraction from their aching, empty stomachs? For one night, do you think they couldn't feel the bed bug bites under their dress shirts?
Do you think, for two kids who know far too much reality, there was nothing better than one wonderful night of pure fantasy? And pure delusion?
Holiday party at the Magic Castle, Hollywood🎩🪄🔮✨️🎉🎊
I finished the castle!!!
Bit miffed because despite it having a usb port I couldn’t initially get the lights/music to work until I tore up the floor again and prodded the circuit board (treating it to some frustrated percussive maintenance) to discover there was a totally USELESS touch sensor to turn things on. (The circuit board is buried between the baseboard and the floor, getting to it meant practically tearing the whole thing apart. It clearly was not designed for a touch switch, but someone didn’t tell the circuit engineer, clearly)
So I had to make hole in the base (which broke me two exacto knife blades) but does mean now I just have to reach underneath the whole thing and grope the hole to get it working.
Will eventually make the lights not quite so dangly and glarish but that’s a problem for me further down the line (when I can position it in the right place to use the usb port) inshallah in my next house.
Hot damn daddy Ian okayyy
Ian's new Instagram post 28/03/25
ianhecox I went to the Magic Castle and they gave me a loaner shirt because my turtleneck wasn’t a “real” turtleneck and didn’t fit their dress code. You ever had Security finger your turtleneck to assess whether or not it was “mock” turtleneck? Now I have 🥵. Also I had the worst fries in probably a decade there. Can’t wait to go back 10/10
Jason Landanye, Magician