Hey Da Vinci, How Ya Been?

It's Monday and you can sense the joy of the nine-to-fivers... I may be getting a job soon. I've had different people looking for jobs for me and just about the only person not looking for a job for me may have found me one. How 'bout that? Didn't even really have to try. Lucky, lucky. Karma doin' its work, perhaps?

I want to take a moment to rant, it's been awhile, so it's been building. The Da Vinci Code will soon be a matter of debate again as the Ron Howard directed film starring Tom Hanks will be released in 2006. Now, go to any message board where the topic is author Dan Brown or the Da Vinci Code and you will find the same senseless, ridiculous arguments. It just goes back and forth, there is no end. Like people discussing religion or politics, there seldom is a winner; it just turns into something of a battle when someone gets defensive. Now, first off people, the book is a work of fiction. On the cover, it says: "A Novel." People claim that the events in the book are being advertised as true, they state the book evens says it is. No. The "Fact Page" in the book says: "All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate." Nowhere does it say that the theories in the book are accurate or fact based. Yet, people continue to go round and round. It's this narrow mindedness that is really sad. It happened (and continues to happen) with the Harry Potter books as well (the book promotes witchcraft)... These people must not have a very enjoyable life if every book is based on fact and everything is presented as evil. Even so, if you read the Da Vinci Code or the Harry Potter series, does that make you an atheist or a witch? If you talk to a homosexual do you become gay? I just feel bad when I think that people are missing out on good movies, books, magazines, music, and so on for ridiculous reasons. Entertainment is entertainment... it's only as strong as the power you give it.

By the way, I highly recommend Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code as well as Digital Fortress. Exciting, fun reads.

And so it goes...