The first VI blog post

Many people don't take the blogs over at Vanishing Inc too seriously. I mean, maybe there’s some decent stuff buried in there, but let’s be honest—there are better magic blogs out there if you’re looking to learn something new.

Anyway, it's the weekend, the DDC offices have been quiet, I got bored, and I thought, Why not scroll back to the beginning? Let’s see where this whole thing started with VI's blog posts. So, I skipped to page 42, where the blog entries kick off, and clicked on the first one.

Turns out, their grand debut blog post was on May 11, 2011. The second post was exactly a year later—May 12, 2012. That’s the kind of frequency you can expect from married sex after the honeymoon phase is over. I wonder what the gap was all about. Anybody know?

The first blog is about Tony Andruzzi.

Now, let me take you back to when Tony was born in 1925, just a couple of decades after Houdini’s infamous Weighlock Bridge jump in Rochester, New York—exactly 70 years before I’d finish seminary school and start my deep dive into historical studies of…

Okay, okay.

I’m just screwing with you.

All of that is (mostly) rubbish.

The truth? I don’t know much about Tony Andruzzi beyond his association with Bizarre Magick. I believe he was the man behind New Invocation before Docc took over. Before that, it was Tony Raven's baby. All of it can be found within the Compleat Invocation [if you can manage to track down a copy without going broke].

And I'm probably still butchering a few of the details.

I’m not going to pretend I'm the person that should be speaking right now: I'm not. I can barely untangle my own family’s history, so why the hell would I have a detailed dossier on someone from the Bizarre Magick scene? His name pops up now and then during my studies, and that’s about as deep as my knowledge goes.

The real point here is to highlight Vanishing Inc’s very first blog entry. It's an interesting read. The comment below the article opens a can of worms. Oh, and the book they mention—Unspeakable Acts—can be picked up here on Barnes & Nobles website (which is interesting, to say the least).

The general public is probably more knowledgeable about Bizarre Magick than anything I can share...

-A.