…Title of yet another prescient episode of Millenium I thought of while watching some Sci-Fi Channel documentary on The Da Vinci Code. Funny (and funnier, I mean, than the Will & Grace finale or seeing Gil Grissom hook up with Sara Sidle at the end of CSI) to see theologians all up in arms separating "fact from fiction." I really have neither the scholarship nor inclination to delve into the historical record, but the two women who wrote the show seemed to know their Mary Magdalene at least as well. And my guess is that any material Ron Howard can adapt for Tom Hanks—not one for taking chances, is he—can't possibly have the depth of Umberto Eco's. I remember reading Foucault's Pendulum back in law school and only grasping the Borgesian conspiracy by the Lupin reference; who the fuck else but me would go from Monkey Punch to Maurice Leblanc in the HRC?

Oh yeah, it's my birthday. Talk about your anamnesis.