Stayed up all night reading Ray Bradbury’s From the Dust Returned, and felt thrilled and amazed at his literary version of Jack’s Parsonage (which, coincidentally, sparked Charles Addams’s Family cartoons, which, somewhat dumbed down became the TV show, and even more diluted, the two movies). Heady as fine brandy, that stuff. I remembered reading bits of Hubbard’s fiction and thought “Right…and he could have written…*this*. Poor guy couldn’t write his way out of a paper bag.”

Yeah. It really is all that bad. Instead of brandy, you’re getting high-fructose artificial grape flavored punch (from concentrate).

Sigh.
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I’ve read that, except perhaps for Fear, he was a pretty much mediocre pulp fiction writer.

Consider it done, but are you referring to his vast accomplishments here on Teegeeack, his racing career on Marcab, his other adventures on the whole track or a combination of all three? The possibilities are endless…

How old are you now? How much liquor and drugs have you consumed? How much misery have you inflicted? You do realize you’ve become a total joke to the world, don’t you? A very evil sick one, but a joke nonetheless.

Not much time left my friend.

Tick tock.

He was a criminal con man who destroyed ALL three of his families.

I’ll bet TC has done the Running in Circles Rundown. I can just picture gin raving about it too. How he blew so much charge while he was running.
The fool
And Miscavige is laughing all the way to the bank.

The original title was ‘My Three Sons…None of Whom Still Speak To Me’;

Or ‘My Three Sons and Three, NOT FOUR, Daughters Because Alexis Never Existed’;

and ‘The Hemet Hillbillies’; and ‘BeBodyThetaned’

I stopped in a Barnes and Noble in Indiana earlier this week to pick up the newest Harry Turtledove alt-history novel (saved me an Amazon delivery) and saw it in the New Science Fiction section. There were lots of unsold copies of it sitting on the shelves, thank FSM.

‘Accomplishments’ Update:

Today: Scientology, You and Tom have made the Drudge Report AGAIN.

Impressive. Some may remember a popular internet meme called “Chuck Norris facts” where people would attribute the most awesome things that Norris was supposedly able to do. I propose a new meme called “L. Ron Hubbard Facts.” Just as funny and maybe could be just as popular.