I almost messed my pants ... just once, thank you

The heat that I was complaining about yesterday hasn't subsided. Delightfully, I came home from work yesterday to find a massive power outage in my town and an adjoining town. I suspect it may have been a brown-out or a rolling black-out but not a black-out proper; my suspicion is based in my not knowing the difference between all these terms.

Does it really matter what the different terms mean? For me, the end result is the same: eat some cold pasta salad for dinner; realize that the pasta salad is missing one of chive, leeks, or green onions; call mom to ask the difference between chives, leeks, and green onions; drive a few towns over to go to Taco Bell for dinner; go to the movies to escape the heat even though there's nothing interesting playing; see "The Strangers" by default; realize that seeing a home-invasion horror movie while suffering migraine- and Taco Bell-related nausea is as bad as seeing "Vacancy" (a motel-room-invasion horror movie) after being awake for 36 hours.

I have to give a thumbs-down to "The Strangers" because it scared the shit out of me. Here's the premise: three youths (it's always youths!) put on masks and terrorize a couple in their secluded home. Character fates include, but are not limited to: shot, stabbed, dead, free to terrorize more couples in the future.

I used to love horror movies. No, I still love horror movies, but holy shit, enough with the plausibly realistic horror. Intergalactic shape-changing monster stalks Antarctic researchers? Fake and wonderful. Youths stage a home invasion? WAY TOO REAL.

The best part (only good part) of going to the movies last night was the theater's choice of previews, because the second preview was for "Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2: Someone's Washing These Pants, Right?" Does the audience for that movie have a lot of overlap with the audience for home invasion horror movies? The preview wasn't meant as a treat for the creepy dudes who go to horror movies and can't speak to women (perhaps because of a court order), was it? And why weren't the pants featured more prominently in the preview? I know the answer to that last one: it's because the sisterhood that's important, and not the pants. Duh. Thankfully, there does appear to be travel in the movie, so the title isn't completely misleading.