The World According to Taquoriaan

I found myself a new source of comics today:

With a hat tip to Crooks and Liars.

I bet most of you have seen these images somewhere sometime. It seems to be a trend to shoot a “Last Supper” image with the cast of popular films and TV Shows. Typically, they will copy the “original” painting made by Leonardo Da Vinci between 1495 and 1498, which looks like this:

According to Wikipedia, the picture depicts the event narrated in the Gospel of John, chapter 13 verse 21, where Jesus announces that one of the twelve apostles would betray him. I will quote Wikipedia’s entry on the grouping of figures:

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h/t to my professor who used it for the Psychology of Traffic class.

Being one of those with a degree in psychology, and with that I mean real ACADEMIC psychology I can’t stand Dr. Phil. Grover on the other hand is beyond awesome!!
Thanks to Deborah for sharing it.

I had to laugh SO hard at this one, because it’s SO true!

Kudo’s to Deborah for this one!

With a hat tip to Denyse

… it doesn’t take long before both my MacBook and my Zoom H2 digital recorder are used by someone else…

Today, the Dutch celebrate the fact they are living in a free, independent democracy. Forty-six years ago today, the Occupation by Nazi Germany ended officially. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom in general are so easy taken for granted, but they really are precious gifts we should cherish.

Groningen, Great Market (Grote Markt) before World War 2: medieval square with picturesque Dutch houses.

Groningen in April 1945 after the liberation by the Polish and Canadian troops: utter destruction. Most medieval buildings north of the Great Market were completely destroyed and replaced by modern concrete 1960s buildings.

Let’s hope this will never ever happen again!