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“The Secret” and its, dare we say, disciples, if you imagine it will come. Oprah did her own show on the topic, exclaiming, “I've been talking about this for so many years on my show, I just never called it The Secret!” And if Oprah's been talking about it, then you know it's gospel.

Don’t be alarmed by the synthesized arena-rock Muzak piped into the house before “Esoterica”, Eric Walton’s solo show of magic and mentalism. “Arrested Development” fans may get the feeling they’re in for a long night of cheesy, Gobian gimmickry, but any similarities begin and end with the tacky taste in music - a trait mysteriously shared by virtually all magicians.

This past weekend, the FYI column in the NY Times' City section was really good. Someone thought double parking was legal (ha!) and another person wondered why the city's fountains are winterized (pipes would freeze, silly), but best of all, one person asked about the time Winston Churchill "was almost killed by a car in Manhattan" in 291.

Traveling north in a taxi (Fifth Avenue was two-way in those days), Churchill became confused about the building numbers. The taxi driver, who was new to Manhattan, turned around. Churchill got out on the Central Park side, walked a few paces north and then tried to cross the avenue against the light.

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Gothamist posts on the capture of a NYC perv thanks to Little Brother and a camera phone. They also scour the city for vodka martinis and Shamrock shakes and spot the friend from the Wonder Years at a city law firm. New York police think that Littlejohn is their man.

Gothamist loves the NY Times' Gibraltar Journal! Thanks to today's article (and to Winston Churchill), we now know that Macaque monkeys are so very similar to us. Since there are over 200 monkeys that are allowed to "free range" in Gibraltar, the monkeys have familiarized themselves with human foods and flaws. While their human neighbors are pretty unhappy with their behavior, the monkeys are notable for loving Kit Kats, ice cream cones, and shiny cameras, which means they are just like photobloggers! Even though the monkeys are vicious and possibly menacing (stealing clothes off clotheslines...biting people when they come near babies), we would love to build a macaque monkey, perhaps in Tompkins Square Park, because we're sure no one would notice.