Watching FOX 45 tonight, I was pleased to learn that Christopher Gaumer was indicted today on charges of rape and murder. The good thing about prison is that he might just get raped and murdered himself. Man, karma can be such a bitch.

Dan Brown is finally in court over the lawsuit filed against him claiming he plagarized Holy Blood, Holy Grail, by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln.

I’ve read Holy Blood, Holy Grail — before it got in the MSM again — and its a really fascinating book.

This summary I’m doing from a nearly two year old memory, so forgive me some base inaccuracies: The authors were documentary makers who stumbled on the story by accident — doing research for another project, they stumbled across this crazy tale. They had footage of a crypt entrance in southern France, with a Latin inscription. But they couldn’t translate it — it was gibberish. Anyway, the footage made it into one of their documentaries, and a few months later they got a letter from an American who had once been employed by the NSA. He knew what the inscription said, and he knew why it translated into gibberish — it was written in a cipher. Translated and decoded, it said “Beware! For within are contained the secrets of God.”

This intrigued these documentary makers, and they began doing research — they learned the tale of a priest in France, who fell out of favor with the Bishop, and was sent to a desolate, isolated parish in the south of France. He didn’t earn much money — something like two francs a month — but he was very dedicated to the people of the local village. After a few years, he decided to start repairing the damaged chapel, and while undertaking repairs, he accidently shattered a wall, and found something within. No one is quite certain what he found, but his faith was quite shattered — the chapel became quickly decorated with pagan imagery and slogans. Long story short, the guy quickly became favored in Paris, and recieved a massive amount of money from Rome (through a third party), all of which was to keep his trap shut.

The short of it is that these documentary makers did this research, wrote a book about what they learned, and now they’re pretty certain Dan Brown read their book, stole their research, and made a shitload of cash on the poorly written The DaVinci Code.

(You might remember I blogged about this waaay back in December 2004.)

I took a delivery to the Jeep dealership today.

I was walking back to my car (parked on the side, in between rows of Jeep Wranglers), and maybe I slightly, just a little, took a glance at the sticker on the windshield.

This salesman, leaning up against the door of the showroom smoking a cigarette, coughed, and started walking over, asking, “Hey, you lookin’ for one of those?”

I said something along the lines of, “Holy crap, don’t even talk to me”, jumped in my car, and damn near ran him over in my hurry to get out of the parking lot and away from temptation.

Speaking of Jeep Wranglers, Jeep.com has posted an image of the redesigned 2007 Wrangler. I think I just pooped and wet myself.