It's true. We've seen it.

Todd Robbins, "America's No. 1 Con Man" and co-author of our upcoming book (2 weeks away) The Modern Con Man, has many, many skills. And as his bio says, some of them are even legal. This week's issue of The New Yorker spotlights one of them in a feature article ("The Real Work") by Adam Gopnik:

"Todd Robbins is now perhaps the last remaining sideshow artist capable of doing the Human Blockhead act (a six-inch steel nail goes into and up the nose) while giving a scholarly account of its origins."

We said Todd had some legal skills. We just never said they were useful ones.