I'm a lightning rod for jesus.

Last week I accidentally went to the UN, which was a strange but slightly thrilling experience. For one thing, this sign is hand painted or colored in. However, there was an exhibition of Holocaust survivors' work inside the lobby of the UN but all the work on display were low quality digital print. From very far away they passed as paintings and prints and were framed very nicely, but up close they were pixelated. The meditation room is mysterious and otherworldly. A 'mysterious mural' by painter Bo Beskow is behind a huge slab of stone.

There have been some interesting reactions:

"The U.N. Meditation Room (right) is built in the shape of a truncated pyramid. In the center is an altar made out of magnetite, the largest natural piece of magnetite ever mined. For meditation purposes it is probably the most ideal spot on the planet, since the magnetite altar has its foundation straight down, built into the bedrock of the land below; tapping into the energies of the earth itself. The mysterious mural also helps the worshippers tune into esoteric energies, and helps facilitate a state of altered consciousness."
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Two weeks ago, I was in the United Nations while on my seventh trip to New York City. I stood in the meditation room, which contains Satan's altar. I went into this room to do spiritual warfare and bind devils through the blood of Jesus Christ. The room was designed by the late Secretary General of the UN, Dag Hammerjskold, who said that the black stone monolith or block is "every man's god." The room is 18 feet wide at the entrance, which in numerology is 3 sixes. The room is also 33 feet long and tapers inward to form a truncated pyramid. There is an abstract mural on the front wall, which is full of witchcraft symbols, and in the middle of the room, is a black stone block, which weighs exactly 6.5 tons or 13,000 pounds. The black stone block has a certain kind of magnetism about it, and when I walked into the room with my praying wife, I could sense the intense presence of an evil force beyond description. This is where the world leaders and Illuminati masterminds go to meditate, which is why it is open to the public only in the mornings. Once the sun moves from antemeridiem to post meridiem only the adept in witchcraft are allowed into that room, for that is witchcraft doctrine regarding meditation. As the sun gives way to waning light and the female power of the moon goddess, the meditation room at the UN becomes off-limits to what they call the "profane."

Anyway,

Sara and Ari visited over the weekend, here they are at Salmagundi, the art club on 5th ave where I met Lisa Yuskavage and awkwardly invited her to the Project 1981 show on Friday.



Ken Resseger had an art show, here he is with his work.



All I can listen to is "I'm a lightning rod for jesus" by Calvin Johnson, but sometimes also the Clash or the begging and bragging (fundraising) on WNYC. Otherwise, people have been eating because it is that season. See above. See Jenny eat. See Joe eat. Eat, kids. Eat.