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While clowns marching across 34th Street this week may have drawn protests for the elephants they led across town, Bozos popping up across 22nd Street seem only to delight anyone aware of the office war they have been conscripted into. Daily Intel has an account of the "Bozoff" going on in the windows of two Grammercy offices directly across the street from one another. After an inflatable Bozo from their Christmas party hung out unassumingly in a Harrison & Star window for a couple of months, it recently found itself confronted by another Bozo in the VideoHelper window that faces it. After the clowns both shot some threatening signs each other's way, VideoHelper stepped it up and now have a Bozo gang of four clowns standing guard over 22nd. Harrison & Star promises retaliation, has had brainstorming meetings on their next move and "treated the Bozo payback initiative like any other client project." VideoHelper has a funny blog detailing their battle plan thus far, including a funeral for a Bozo that deflated and they then taxidermied.

              

This weekend marked the beginning of the 3rd annual NY Clown Theatre Festival at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg. Festivities began with clowns taking to the streets with a subway parade. Clowns such as Lord Oxford and Graspy McTakeItAll led a crowd of about 100 strong onto a rush hour L Train where they sang along as a marching band played standards such as "Come On Eileen" and "Groove is in the Heart."

Back in January video emerged of an enthusiastic street performer, Matthew Silver, dancing in front of Earwax record store on Bedford Avenue. It seems that a war has been going on since, between the employees of the store and the ever-growing troupe of Silver's clowns (dubbed the BC Fools) that adorn the outside of its shop.

Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey and his ex-wife Dina Matos McGreevey are making sure they're not letting the best interests of their six-year-old daughter get in the way of their bitter divorce. The publicly feuding pair were back in court yesterday, where they were excoriated by a judge. The McGreeveys split when the governor resigned amidst a sex harassment scandal in which he famously announced that he was "a gay-American.""The hatred you have for...