BENNIE & THE JETS--MEETS THE "EXORCIST!"

      In the mid 1970's, after my first divorce, I went to see the movie "The Exorcist" with a friend, Dan Ellitt from Allied Mutual in Des Moines where we both worked. For its time this movie was really scary with heads spinning around and green slime spewing out and about.

       When I went back to my apartment later, I had a tough time sticking around there by myself. OK I was a big "Scared y-Cat!" I decided to go over to Peggy's, the local Drake area pub. I initially put in a dollar's worth of the hit song by Elton John-- "Bennie and the Jets" (25 cents a tune then) and had a few brews until I gained the courage to return to my apartment. Well, it was scary!