04 May 2006
A Partial History of Adolesence, Featuring Seances and Schlitz Beer
A recurring activity at early adolescence church-group parties in my hometown -- parties in the church itself -- was to have a seance and try to call up the Bell Witch, in our fragile minds the meanest, nastiest, spirit on the Group W bench in Hell.
Basically it was an excuse to turn out the lights, make out, try to cop a feel, etc.
What? Yes, this was in a church.
What? Yes, it's no wonder we turned out to be a lot of heathens.
Regardless, the Bell Witch has a new movie (apparently there were others; who knew?) -- with Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek -- and it's getting bad reviews.
Maybe she wasn't so mean and nasty after all.
Later, after we aged a few years -- from 12 to 14 or so -- we gave up on seances at the church and took to drinking 40s of Schlitz, bought for us at The Worm Ranch (Google: "Your search - worm-ranch beer-joint - did not match any documents") by a buddy of my brothers, under the bridge when we were supposed to be at the dance at the National Guard Armory.
Basically it was an excuse to turn out the lights, make out, try to cop a feel, etc.
What? Yes, this was in a church.
What? Yes, it's no wonder we turned out to be a lot of heathens.
Regardless, the Bell Witch has a new movie (apparently there were others; who knew?) -- with Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek -- and it's getting bad reviews.
Maybe she wasn't so mean and nasty after all.
Later, after we aged a few years -- from 12 to 14 or so -- we gave up on seances at the church and took to drinking 40s of Schlitz, bought for us at The Worm Ranch (Google: "Your search - worm-ranch beer-joint - did not match any documents") by a buddy of my brothers, under the bridge when we were supposed to be at the dance at the National Guard Armory.
