A few years ago, I bought a new bass guitar amp. Prior to purchasing this amp, I had a small practice amp. I had started playing bass at church and needed something with more power. And all guitarists seem to be continually looking for new and better equipment.
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Bad Date
I never had a girlfriend in high school. Dates never turned into relationships. It was a rare occasion when I went out with a girl more than once. I have a cousin who would occasionally set me up on blind dates. We would double date on these occasions to try and make things go well. …
Why Connecticut Funeral Homes Scare Me
One day in 2009, I was channel surfing and I saw a showing was coming on called A Haunting in Connecticut. I had recently seen ads for a movie called The Haunting in Connecticut that I didn’t think had been released yet. The similarity of the names confused me, and I watched just to see the show on …
Why Chicken Feet Scare Me
My family and I started watching classic blaxploitation movies from the 1970’s on Turner Classic Movies several years ago. There is a sub-genre of these films that are horror films too. Blackula and Scream Blacula, Scream are probably the most famous of these films. One of the lesser known of these films is called Sugar Hill.
Why The King of Cartoons Scares Me
We watched Pee-wee’s Playhouse when it first came out in 1986. My wife and I were fans of Pee-wee Herman and were interested in seeing how they would do a children’s show. One of the show’s characters was someone they called The King of Cartoons. The King of Cartoons dressed like you would expect a king to …
Why Jungle Natives Scare Me
When I was growing up, the location television station that showed movies every afternoon would set aside Saturday afternoon for Tarzan movies starring Johnny Weissmuller. There weren’t enough Tarzan movies to show them all year, so they showed Shirley Temple movies and Lone Ranger television episodes instead of Tarzan. But Tarzan movies were definitely my …
Why Linda Blair Scares Me
The Exorcist was released in 1973. I was 11 at the time and way too young to see it. I knew what I knew about it because of pop culture references like the Mad Magazine parody and the Saturday Night Live sketch they did when Richard Pryor hosted in 1975. In 1979, it was re-released …
Jesus Loves the Little Children
I was about 4 or 5 years old. I was in Sunday School class with about 10 guys all around my age. One of the guys was named Ricky. Ricky’s mom taught our class. Occasionally we would sing. One song we would sing was Jesus Loves the Little Children. The lyrics were, Jesus loves the little …
Birthday Hailstorm
It was June 2, 1998. We were celebrating my son’s third birthday. We had cake and ice cream to celebrate. It also took a while for my son to open presents. We gave him a while to play with his new toys before we put the kids to bed. When my wife and I finally …
Elvis was a Mormon
On September 1, I saw a few reports that said Graceland had been “vandalized” with graffiti. In addition, I saw several social media posts where people were outraged by messages of “BLM” and “Eat the Rich” were painted on the walls outside of Graceland. As someone who has regularly attend the Candlelight Vigil, I guess …