BoomerGirl Diary

It started with the book "The DaVinci Code," which suggested that Michelangelo left messages in his painting of "The Last Supper: that were even more enigmatic than the mysterious smile of the Mona Lisa. Dan Brown's novel suggested that a man was really a woman, and that the seating arrangements around the table told a sinister tale.

Now It seems that whenever I log onto the internet, someone else is revealing a another Last Supper discovery: If you take a photo of it and reverse all the figures and superimpose them over the painting, new messages are revealed. If you draw lines across it and put notes at certain key points, a musical composition comes to light. I scan these conjectures and can't help but think that these people have far too much time on their hands.

Here's the headline that I'm waiting for:

J.C. Penney Catalog Spotted in the Last Supper

After years of intense study, Rupert Swanson has announced that he has found the J.C. Penney catalog in Michelangelo's 'Last Supper.'

"I knew that there was something very odd about the coloration in the painting's background," he said. "There were anomalies there, and after taking infrared photos, doing a full CT scan of the wall, checking Landstadt photos from outer space, and sending my Aunt Edna from Waukesha in there with a ladder, we realized exactly what it was that Michelangelo had hidden there: A J.C. Penney catalog. And not one of those skinny little sale ones, but the big Fall/Winter!"

Management at J.C. Penney has declined comment.