on a far away planet. Cruise is a nut and I will never watch another movie he makes. I don't need people who are more nutty than I am in my life.

http://www.scientology.org/faq/scientology-beliefs/what-is-the-concept-of-god-in-scientology.html

http://www.scientology.org/what-is-scientology/basic-principles-of-scientology/eight-dynamics.html

I doubt the Scientologists themselves even understand what the hell the words on their website mean.

For example:

As P.T. Barnum liked to say, "there's a sucker born every minute", and old L. Ron took that adage to heart.

Get it done. Rescue the one from the vehicle accident.

Katie Holmes divorcing Tom Cruise.

That guy should definitely get a new barber. He's having a helluva time keeping a beard.

One of the 10 million websites on the split, for the morbidly curious:

http://news.yahoo.com/tom-cruise-katie-holmes-split-people-magazine-172100719.html

LOCAL PLUG, REMOTELY ON-TOPIC - For those planning a trip to L.A. this summer - don't miss the $cientology Celebrity Centre, at 5930 Franklin Ave in Hollywood.

The armed guards around the place will scowl at you if you take pictures, but they can't do jack as long as you're on a public sidewalk. They may come over and ask why you're taking pictures. Tell them you had an epiphany and saw Xenu.

The Celebrity Centre is a gorgeous old Art Deco pile with an interesting background. Originally known as Chateau Elysee, it was (allegedly) built with hush money that William Randolph Hearst paid to Eleanor Ince - widow of director Thomas Ince, who mysteriously died aboard the Hearst yacht in 1924.

The most popular legend says Hearst was shooting at Charlie Chaplin, in a jealous rage over Chaplin canoodling with Hearst's mistress Marion Davies. He missed and hit Ince.

While you're in the neighborhood, you can also drop in and pay your respects to Ms. Davies. She's in the Hollywood Forever cemetery, at 6000 Santa Monica Blvd., built in 1899 just over the wall from the old Paramount Studios lot. You can't miss the Davies crypt. While you're there, walk over to the mausoleum and say "Howdy!" to the late Bugsy Siegel.

The same cemetery houses the remains of many Los Angeles celebrities, including the truly amazing Col. Griffith J. Griffith. As in "Griffith Park," "Griffith Observatory," "Greek Theatre," etc. etc.

A lot of stuff is named after him because he kept "forgetting" to pay his property taxes, at which point he would donate land to Los Angeles County.

MORE ON-TOPIC COMING UP...

He didn't own the land anyway - it all belonged to his wife Christina, a descendant of a Mexican family who literally owned most of old Los Angeles. The problem was, she was Catholic, and Col. Griffith HATED Catholics. No, I don't know why she married him.

While the couple were visiting their Santa Monica bungalow one weekend in 1903 - a bungalow only slightly smaller than the White House - Col. Griffith decided his wife and the Pope were conspiring to kill him. He shot her in the face and threw her off a third-floor balcony. Incredibly, she lived - and shortly thereafter divorced him.

Sorry, I got carried away with the travelogue. It's Friday and alcohol was involved.

The random stuff you post is really good, even when it's a carried away travelogue on a boozy Friday night.

like an artificial human being, sometimes.