so, it's pretty obvious to everybody reading this site that tommy's taken up a personal crusade against scientology. good on him. it seems like a pretty freaky thing. if you've been reading this site for a while, you know that i also have had my bouts of "how the fuck can anybody subscribe to this bullshit?" about the organized religion.

but so far, we've just been bitching about it on our blog. ANYBODY can do that. i'm thinking we should really take it to the next level...you know, real journalism. some hard-hitting investigation that'll take us to the upper echelons of the blogosphere, where i have been longing to reside for ages. you know what i'm talking about: a journey into the deep, dark underbelly of scientology - a visit to the headquarters of the church, which are conveniently located about two blocks away from my office! FIELD TRIP!!!

look, it'll be fun. here's what i'm imagining. we take a bottle of grey goose. we drink it. straight up. we trip across the street into the scientology center, we listen to one of the daily lectures on dianetics (or even better: go to a sunday service!) maybe we get e-metered; maybe we don't. doesn't matter. we come back, hopefully unculted, write clever, snarky article about our experience; get contacted by salon or slate, become famous, etc etc, hopefully don't get struck down by l. ron hubbard and his ilk. have great, wonderful time!

so. who's in?

UPDATE: woah. woah, woah, woah. greta van susteren is a scientologist? man. i always kind of liked her.