Fish Sticks and Green Jello

I always find things online that I think are really interesting. I constantly spam my friends with various links telling them that they "have to read this". I see a lot of sites are putting up posts periodically with links that they've found interesting and that's something that I think would be cool to do since I'm constantly surfing the web. This will save me some emailing as well. I'll add some sort of web links/web gems type post later.

For now, my latest fascination has been around the whole Katie Holmes/Tom Cruise/Scientology craze. I've been spending some time reading up on this. This is some scary scary stuff. I'm still in disbelief at how many people really buy into this crap. Wow.

Here is some interesting reading on Scientology:

• Missionary Man: Tom Cruise and Scientology, part of a four part series on Salon
  
• Katie Holmes' Missing Days - This is a crazy article. Very creepy.
  
• List of famous Scientologists on Wikipedia
  
• Scientology Kills - Personal Stories of Scientologists and some whacky quotes from famous scientologists
  
• E-Meter, Emotional State and Thought Detector... among other things
  

Here are some articles on Tom Cruise and some infamous clips:

• Tom Cruise on Oprah
  
• Photoblog version of Tom Cruise on Oprah (If you don't want to watch the clip)
  
• Tom Cruise on the Today Show - Watch the video clip of him wigging on Matt Lauer
  
• Tom Cruise getting squirted by water at the London War of the Worlds Premiere
  
• Tom Cruise interview in Entertainment Weekly - The article where he makes a bunch of statements that are disproved by EW
  
• Tom Cruise interview by Rolling Stone - Pre-Katie Holmes but post crazy scientology preachings
  

Okay, lots of reading for when you're bored. With all that said, I loved Batman Begins, although Katie Holmes added zero to that movie. In fact she was the worst part of it. Thank god she wasn't in it for very long. Awful. War of the Worlds was a lot of fun as well, except for the last five minutes, total cop out. Otherwise a thrilling summer blockbuster. Tom Cruise was good in it too.

So all those people out there that say all this crap about Tom Cruise is going to influence if they see his movies or not are full of it. It's easy to be indignant about this stuff and make statements about how he's ruining his career etc etc but you know it's not really ruining his career. It's like those times when you go to a store and you happen to get one rude sales girl and you make a HUGE statement about how you'd never shop there again but you know you're going to anyways because where else are you going to buy that particular thing that you like? Not to draw comparisons to the Oprah/Hermes thing and maybe my analogy wasn't great but I'm sure you know where I'm trying to go with that.

Honestly yes I think he's a nut but I'd totally see War of the Worlds again. I saw Batman Begins twice already. Christian Bale is an amazing actor though so who cares about whats-her-name.