Amid depressing news of two federal indictments of campaign aides to Mayor Vince Gray this week, at least one person has a sense of humor, albeit a dark one.

The Capital City Diner has been sold to the South Carolina-based company that is developing the Capital City Market, and will be part of a new dining and retail district, the Post reports.

The lot at 1050 Bladensburg Road NE sits empty today. Early Tuesday morning, the inevitable happened when the now-shuttered Capital City Diner was loaded onto a flatbed and transported to an undisclosed location.

The latest rumors about the Capital City Diner moving to Columbia Heights and serving Kosher deli and Asian fusion cuisine are still pure conjecture, the restaurant’s founder says.

The Capital City Diner may have found a new owner interested in keeping the popular eatery local.

A story that broke while you all were preparing for cookouts or catching up on some shuteye has taken a turn for the interesting. To recap: on Monday, Trinidad/H Street/Capitol Hill blog Frozen Tropics was the first to publish images from the security cameras outside the Capital City Diner which depicted Ward 5 Council candidate Kathy Henderson taking down Harry Thomas, Jr. and Kwame Brown campaign signs and replacing them with Adrian Fenty ones. The images, one of which can be seen at right, were supplied by Diner owner Matt Ashburn.

You may already be following the story of the Capital City Diner, a new restaurant planned by Trinidad resident Matt Ashburn (City Paper wrote about it yesterday). Ashburn and his partner, Patrick Carl, bought a Silk City Diner, one of those original 1940s era sleek modular diner buildings, in upstate New York and planned to install it on the site of one of the former used car lots shut recently shut down by Mayor…