August 19, 2009
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No New Tricks
I love the actor/magician Ricky Jay, not least for his terrific supporting turn in the first season of Deadwood (understated on a show where nobody was understated). I resisted reading an old New Yorker profile of Jay when John Gruber at Daring Fireball linked to it earlier in the week, even after linking to an interview Jay gave Errol Morris about deception and talking up Jay’s history of magicians and irregular stage entertainers Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women (JG: “simply one of the best books I