why would you pick a portrait of such a worried-looking woman? It's a gorgeous painting but her expression makes you wonder what she found in her Organic Tomato & Porcini Mushroom Sauce.

Here's the sole Amazon review of the product: "I must admit that when I last visited the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome and saw Caravaggio's painting "Giuditta e Oloferne", my very first thought was "Pasta Sauce" –– and it wasn't long before I left to find a caffe. So it is nice to see someone taking advantage of the obvious association in their labeling."

http://smile.amazon.com/Middle-Earth-Organics-Organic-Mushroom/product-reviews/B004SICBYI/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_btm?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

My very first thought was Pasta Sauce! That's a KEEPER!!!

What we need is a spaghetti sauce with H.R. Giger's "Work 219: Landscape XX" on the label. (Google it.) Message: "This spaghetti sauce is fucking great!"

those by the old masters. I don't know why, but it keeps popping up in my life in various places. Not sure what that says about me or how it relates to fungi either.

that is not John the Baptist.

Judith Beheading Holofernes, a 1598 painting by Caravaggio.

Holofernes was an Assyrian general

whom Judith seduced in order to kill him - took one for the team (the Israelites), as it were. Much later, Herod had John the Baptist beheaded and his head presented to Salome on a platter, but Salome didn't do the beheading.