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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

      He wasn't just a fake Chinese guy He was *specifically* ripping off another magician, Ching Ling Foo, who actually was Chinese Stealing his whole act, top to bottom, including his ethnicity

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

      Ching Ling Foo had offered a $1,000 prize to anyone who could figure out the secret of his famous disappearing goldfish bowl trick (which is referenced in the movie) A young white man named Bill Robinson tried to claim the prize, but Ching ignored him

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

      And, as often happens with white men in the performing arts, he took it kind of personally

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    4. MayaScientist‏ @MadScientist212 4 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      I'm just now reading up on this on wikipedia, and it's kind of amazing. "You snubbed me, so now I will spend the rest of my life pretending to be Chinese and steal your name and act for my own" is some pretty amazing obsession.

      2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020
      Replying to @MadScientist212

      Yes, the main way in which the Chung Ling Soo saga inspired The Prestige is the picture it paints of magicians as bizarrely petty and vindictive human beings

      2 replies 1 retweet 21 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @MadScientist212

      Which, you know, might be an unfair stereotype, but, well, Randy Pitchford

      1 reply 1 retweet 12 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @MadScientist212

      Mitch Hurwitz, creator of Arrested Development, actually is also a stage magician, and created the character of Gob to roast his fellow magicians as hard as he could "We Demand to be Taken Seriously" is way too accurate a burn to ever live down

      1 reply 2 retweets 22 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @MadScientist212

      For my sins, I used to be really into stage magic and harbor thoughts of being a magician someday I remember reading a book by Derren Brown that just goes into hilarious self deprecation about what kind of person makes magic their career

      1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @MadScientist212

      All performers have the inherently childish desire to make other people pay attention to you But magic is the most absurdly desperate and shameless manifestation of it Actors and comedians etc just lie for a living, magicians lie that they have SUPERNATURAL POWERS

      1 reply 2 retweets 12 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @MadScientist212

      You're so desperate for people to notice and like you you're trying to sell the inherently ridiculous idea that you are some kind of superhuman being who can violate the basic laws of reality and yet you only use your powers for dumb shit like making a pencil go through a quarter

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @MadScientist212

      (The self deprecation is because Brown sees legit stage magic as existing on the other side of an often thin line from actual scammers and charlatans, professional psychics and the like, and he's a skeptic and debunker of such people, who deeply offend him)

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        1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @MadScientist212

          But anyway the stuff about Pitchford being this pathological Iiar who couldn't stop fucking with people just because he could and did shit like calling his customers "Muggles" etc reminds me powerfully of Brown's rant about this

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        2. Diego Diaz‏ @uneek35 4 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @MadScientist212

          Isn't that observation also Penn and Teller's whole schtick?

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        3. Cesar Castañon‏ @theDwarf 4 Sep 2020
          Replying to @uneek35 @arthur_affect @MadScientist212

          I had always think that this is a lindo of Great Divide between magicians. Esther You had charlatanes o You are one of them

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