Teddy Scares
Another October weekend has come and gone around the Armenia household. The Spawn won his basketball game, I knocked back a few shots of ouzo at the local Greek Festival along with a pretty damn good gyro, and I watched a pretty wretched remake of The
Amityville Horror. It just wasn't scary. And, this time of year, I like to watch stuff that is scary, being the month in which we have the famous All Hallow's Eve.
I did get a chuckle out of the Mrs. when I walked into her office and she was watching her small TV with aplomb. She looked up at me and said, "Do you know what I'm watching? I hate to confess I've never seen this before...Friday the 13th!" Of course, I don't know what shocked me more....the fact that she was watching it or that she had never seen it before.
I had Tivo'd (when did that become a verb?) several episodes of Ghost Hunters and went to watch those while she finished her TPS reports or whatever she was doing. I figured I'd let her sit with her horrorfest for awhile.
When she emerged, she ranted about how shlocky the movie was. I told her, "Of course, it's shlocky now...that's a movie you have to watch in context. Contect being, oh, 25 years ago!" By the way, did you know that this is the 25th anniversary of Friday the 13th? And, do you remember that this was one of Kevin Bacon's first roles? And, for all you movie buffs out there, did you know that the movie studios are planning a Freddy vs. Jason vs. Michael Myers hackfest to be delivered to a movie screen near you sometime in the not-too-distant future? On top of it all, I heard that they are planning to remake the original Friday the 13th and then start remaking all of the FT13th movies. Gotta love it. Or not.
Keeping in the spirit (ahem) of the upcoming holiday, I thought it might be fun to get my, as yet, unborn son a present. I thought I'd get him a teddy bear. You might be thinking, "Aww...gee that's so cute!"
http://www.teddyscares.com/index.shtml
I think it's a cool idea. I could give it to the kid when he's being bad. "Ok, insert future baby name here, if you don't behave, you'll be sleepin' with Rita Mortis tonight!"
Hey, parenting is tough. You gotta be creative sometimes.
-la
Amityville Horror. It just wasn't scary. And, this time of year, I like to watch stuff that is scary, being the month in which we have the famous All Hallow's Eve.
I did get a chuckle out of the Mrs. when I walked into her office and she was watching her small TV with aplomb. She looked up at me and said, "Do you know what I'm watching? I hate to confess I've never seen this before...Friday the 13th!" Of course, I don't know what shocked me more....the fact that she was watching it or that she had never seen it before.
I had Tivo'd (when did that become a verb?) several episodes of Ghost Hunters and went to watch those while she finished her TPS reports or whatever she was doing. I figured I'd let her sit with her horrorfest for awhile.
When she emerged, she ranted about how shlocky the movie was. I told her, "Of course, it's shlocky now...that's a movie you have to watch in context. Contect being, oh, 25 years ago!" By the way, did you know that this is the 25th anniversary of Friday the 13th? And, do you remember that this was one of Kevin Bacon's first roles? And, for all you movie buffs out there, did you know that the movie studios are planning a Freddy vs. Jason vs. Michael Myers hackfest to be delivered to a movie screen near you sometime in the not-too-distant future? On top of it all, I heard that they are planning to remake the original Friday the 13th and then start remaking all of the FT13th movies. Gotta love it. Or not.
Keeping in the spirit (ahem) of the upcoming holiday, I thought it might be fun to get my, as yet, unborn son a present. I thought I'd get him a teddy bear. You might be thinking, "Aww...gee that's so cute!"
http://www.teddyscares.com/index.shtml
I think it's a cool idea. I could give it to the kid when he's being bad. "Ok, insert future baby name here, if you don't behave, you'll be sleepin' with Rita Mortis tonight!"
Hey, parenting is tough. You gotta be creative sometimes.
-la
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