Your Prayers May Be Rendered Invalid

After receiving a warning from beyond, I decided to observe the fast for the entire month of Ramadan. The month of fasting is followed by a communal Eid al-Fitr prayer service, followed by uncontrolled eating.

This year, several area mosque organizations arranged for a joint gathering and rented out the exhibition center for a crowd of what looked like several thousand believers, with a few doubtfuls mixed in.

Perhaps I need to consult with my favorite Saudi cleric to be certain, but I suspect that the prayers of thousands may have been rendered invalid by the banner of a liquor-sipping barelegged seductress in a house of games-of-chance in clear sight. In other words, Gamblin', Liquor, and Whores.

Mid 90s Turkish-Mexican Nicholas Cage

The artist who drew this portrait of me in Mexico in 1999 may have thought that I was Nicholas Cage from Kiss Of Death (1995).

Or perhaps someone from a Soviet propaganda poster from World War II. But of course, in Soviet Russia, portrait draws YOU!