My fellow co-hosts on This Week in Magic & I had a fantastic time taking a look back at the last ten years of magic on the most recent podcast.  Genii contributor Dustin Stinett produces an amazing annual retrospective each year on the Genii forums that I'm thrilled to have a chance to share with you here at the Magic Newswire. Enjoy this look back at what happened in magic over the last 365 days!

While, from where I sit here in SoCal, a little over two-hours remain in 2009, the Genii Forum time stamp says it’s already 2010. So that means it’s time for me to post my Annual Genii Forum Review.

2009 was an odd year—and I’m not referring to the uneven status of the integer more commonly referred to as “9.”

It’s also difficult to believe that we are already into the final year of the first decade of the 21st century. (Hence the reason you will not find any references to the “Trick, Book, or DVD of the Decade”: There is still one more year left in this decade. For those who think I’m wrong, hold up three fingers; now count them and tell me which one you assigned as “zero.” While I expect some of you will tell me, “It’s the middle one,” I’m still correct that one does not begin counting with “zero” nor do any calendars begin with “zero.” So there; neener, neener, neener.) 

But no matter how we count it, time is our most precious commodity. Oliver Wendell Homes says it best:

Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes
Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats;
He keeps all his customers still in arrears
By lending them minutes and charging them years.

Please to enjoy a wrap-up of 2009: