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Ahhh yes....thank you TV for wasting time in my life:

Tonight on National Geographic TV I watched the 2-hour special about the Da Vinci code. Now, I had forgotten that this is an insanely popular book....and that Tom Hanks will be starring in the Ron Howard-directed film adaptation in 2006.....but what I didn't know was that the entire plot was ripped off by my friend. (If you haven't yet.....I would advise you to skip down to Saturday's post to read about "National Treasure" first.)

Ahhh yes.....it seems that the basic plot of the Da Vinci Code is that Jesus Christ was actually married to Mary Magdalene....and they produced a child, whose bloodline still exists today in France. Well, very few people knew about this, and it was kept hidden by the church, and only a secret sect knew the info. It just so happpened that Leonardo Da Vinci was a member of this sect, and hid clues in his paintings about Mary Magdalene being Jesus' wife.

Now, that should make you think of the recent classic starring Nicolas Cage....but that's not all....there's also all this hoopla about the group known as the Knights Templar—also the ones who hid the treasure and passed the traditions with the Freemasons to America in "National Treasure." So National Treasure was a rip-off....it just changed the subject matter from Jesus to treasure, and moved it to America.

Well.....it's still very interesting and I'm sort of anticipating "The Da Vinci Code" movie.....though I think it's going to be a few years, b/c it is supposed to tie in with the 700th anniversary of the Knights Templar being banised by the Pope, and that happens October 13th, 2007. So, it's all kooky b/c the present-day Knights want an official apology from the Pope BEFORE that date. I can't find anywhere on the internet exactly what they'll do if it doesn't happen, so if you run across that, let me know.

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So, Monday night......11—11.30 pm........who's up for a midnight run to Oxford? I'm planning to get Napolean Dynamite AND Shaun Of The Dead if Wal-Mart is so kind enough to have them out at midnight.

Now, this is dumb and retarded for Two Reasons: (a.) It will be incredibly late Monday night, and I have to work Tuesday morning and therefore won't even get to watch either of them so I may as well (b.) Just as easily get them Tuesday afternoon.

However, I choose NOT to, because (a.) Tuesday afternoon I will want to go home b/c I was up so late and we are trying to cram 4.5 days' worth of production into 2 days b/c of Xmas and (b.) it's very lame and retarded.

Sooo.....if you want to go, be at the station between 11 and 11.30 monday night. Oh, I still have to call to gurantee they'll be on display at mid-night. If not, you can be guaranteed that dogs CAN look up.