I Didn't Die When I Saw The Conjuring

I've posted in the past about scary movies. Namely about zombies and about horror movies in general.

But this past summer I saw a horror movie that everyone seemed to claim must be the scariest thing to emerge from a movie theater since popcorn prices were raised to $10 a bucket.

Yes, I'm talking of course about The Conjuring.

My wife and I went with a couple of friends who had bought into the hype. Christina is pregnant, of course, and one of my friends was apparently concerned for her well-being.

"Um...do you think it's a good idea for a pregnant woman to be seeing this? What if the movie freaks her out so much that she...I don't know....goes into labor or something?"

We took our chances.

But I was a bit disappointed. It was a good movie, don't get me wrong. But single scariest movie ever made? Not really.

I hadn't quite grasped from the trailers that this was just another exorcism movie. I've seen my fair share of these films. I gotta tell ya, it definitely makes being Catholic look exciting. I can almost picture a hotline to the Vatican where the pope has to dispatch secret agents to fight these demons in their houses.

That's probably the biggest reason I didn't find myself on the edge of my seat like some of the folks in the theater. Exorcism movies aren't really novelties for me anymore.

Fantasy Football Team Names

Fantasy football is about to begin. I belong to a couple of leagues with a basic rule for team names: They must be named after a town or city in Kansas. You may pick whatever mascot you want.

The goal, of course, is to be as clever as you possibly can.

So, naturally, Christina and I set forth to come up with the best list of names we could.

The Potter Muggles (mine)
The Winchester Rifles
The Cuba Libres
The Reading Rainbows
The Assaria Assassins
The Axtell Clinics (our doctor works at Axtell Clinic in Newton)
The Dexter Laboratory
The Enterprise Rent-A-Cars (Christina's team name)
The Gypsum Gypsies
The Long Island Iced Teas
The Montezuma Revenge
The Mission Impossibles
The Perry Platypus
The Protection Detail
The Speed Racers

Our foes will quake before the might of our witty titles.