
A story of mine has been published in The Age today and is available online here.
The story focuses on the history of magic in Melbourne and a new exhibition covering that subject at City Museum, which runs through December and January. One of the people I interviewed was magic historian Gerald Taylor (pictured above), a sweet elderly man and a fountain of knowledge on all things abracadabra. After our interview Gerald showed me a scrapbook of news clippings that have been written about him over the years - amongst other roles he worked as a high profile magician/illusionist for decades - but the book ended at about 1990, so it's nice to think that he now has a new clipping to paste in there.

This 'ere blog is the online repository of Melbourne writer and freelance journalist Luke Buckmaster. Luke's words appear in publications such as The Age, The Sun-Herald, Filmink Magazine and
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