Photo of the Week

His Holiness Sri Swami Satchikrishnanandadananda has set up shop in our neighborhood, at what he calls his Spiritual Gallery. Here you will find ebooks and articles as well as audios and videos on yoga-mat selection, mental and physical levitation, and generating rainbow auras, as well as full-color Kama Sutra manuals and floral mandalas. The pearls of His Holiness's wisdom, which are beyond price (though a small donation is expected), are elasticized to the needs of each aspiring seeker and are brought to us by one of India's renowned spiritual teachers and florists.

Actually, I just made that up. This is the window of an astrologer's palmistry shop that recently opened up a few blocks from where I live. You can see the full storefront here. Jersey City is a schizo place, both on the way up (i.e., gentrifying) and on the way down (i.e., succumbing to urban decay), sometimes on the same block. It's been that way at least since the 1980s, and is part of what keeps it persistently interesting. That a storefront on a busy avenue is affordable for such an operation is not a good sign, but at least it adds to the local color.

Click the pic for a closer look and some instant karma.

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Meanwhile....

Kyle MacLachlan’s Pursued By Bear 2007 is here