Band Names

Over the past 100 days, I've posted a band name each day on Twitter. Here they all are.  Let me know your favorite or (better) give me your own best band names.

edit: By way of clarification, these are band names that sprang forth from my own imagination or, occasionally, the imagination of a friend. They are not bands that actually exist.

1. Clipboard Mafia
2. Flop Sweat and Tears
3. threat level midnight
4. Squeezepack
5. Walnut Grove Punks
6. Sping
7. Los Guys
8. The Cavities
9. Papa Wobbles
10. Glutius Minimus
11. Pinky Finger Extended
12. Spastic Jackson
13. (couch.)
14. husband
15. eerie godless
16. Isolation Chamber
17. Sneak-Thief
18. Jerkstore Clearance
19. Pablum
20. Ghastly Minstrals
21. The Shrinky-Dinks
22. The Khaki Lads
23. The Jammies
24. Stunning Pompodour
25. Woot Woot to Boot
26. Missuz Esterhaus
27. huxtable massacre
28. Hatfields vs. Capulets (vs. Grangerfords)
29. Snug
30. The Faux Poseurs
31. Open During Destruction
32. Belvedere's Revenge
33. SlapDash
34. Chump Change
35. The Jiggwatts
36. Dwayne Wayne Manor
37. Fool of a Took
38. Panzers for Pansies
39. The Jack Boots
40. Hardcore Clavinova
41. Omnibus
42. Soul Scab
43. Diwali Nightmare
44. The Farthings
45. The Glass Chins
46. Hester Prynne vs. Benny Hinn
47. Wheelchair Disagreement HT:My4YrOld
48. Aggressive Pedestrian
49. Gimmick HT: Erin
50. Vamanos Pest Control #SkinnyPete
51. Sasper-zilla
52. Friendly Fatwah
53. Classic Schmoseby
54. Flowbie Fatality
55. Super-Sequitur
56. Boiler Room Hobo HT:
57. Poor Mister Pamuk
58. The Habidashers
59. Sarcastic Yay
60. Tuna Meltdown
61. Hipster Happy Hour
62. Slather
63. Insightful Tweet
64. Urban Shamhan ht:Turk
65. Surf Dumb
66. Laissez Flair
67. Percussion Caps
68. Harbingers of Mood
69. Semper Super Fly
70. Mucho Poco
71. Step-Band
72. Mega-festo
73. Barter Economy
74. Triumphant Synth
75. Avante Garde Hard Rock Collective
76. Control-Alt-Retreat
77. The Victorious Champions of Winning #theyjustkeepgettinglonger
78. Too Slang HT:My4YearOld
79. Jibber-Jabberwocky
80. Brass Tacks & Fat Stacks  #MaybeAlbumName
81. The Second Humminah  #MyNewFavorite
82. Wee Baby Seamus
83. Party Crash Zamboni
84. Atlas Hugs
85. Dimestore Platinum
86. Healthy Dollop
87. Smirk
88. Messianic Druid
89. band dot com (their website is banddotcom.net)
90. Fanboy Factory
91. Yank Slater
92. Jeff
93. C.S. Lewis Reference
94. Power Chord Overlords
95. Inadequate Afro
96. Terrible Epiphany
97. The Inscrutables
98. Muser
99. The Recurring Gags
100. Deadly Jazz-Hands

The Infamous Conversion Scene

Christian fiction—particularly Christian suspense—has become a different animal from what it was twenty years ago. It is (with exceptions, of course) less cheesy and formulaic, which is good, but at times less Christian, which is billed as good (more ABA crossover appeal, wider audience) but which gives me pause.

One element that is falling out of favor is the conversion scene, wherein a major character repents and believes in Jesus. You used to be able to feel those coming in decades past (and centuries past, for that matter, going back to Bunyan), even in the work of innovators like Peretti. Now they're considerably more rare. But why? Is it because we've sold out, putting market above principles (not unlike the vague, Bieberish lyrics of many contemporary pop Christian songs)? Is it because the genre is evolving and becoming more nuanced? Or simply because the convention has jumped the shark, a self-parody favored by lazy writers who don't want to develop their characters a little at a time?

Most importantly, do you miss them?