Lio by Mark Tatulli for March 31, 2019

“The wheels on the bus go glub, glub, glub…glub, glub, glub…glub glub glub…

expect a few-hour delay (like until the second to the last hour before school is out for the day)

The bus is sluggish today.

This is a job for salt man.

Oh man I watched The Blob on a tiny black and white set balanced on a stool while my parents watched Johnny Carson on the color living room T.V. All the doors closed and the lights off on my side in the kitchen. Scared me into a weeks worth of nightmares!

“subject to change”…ESPECIALLY in Lio’s neighborhood!

I wonder if the bus number, 1138, is a shout-out to another SF movie or just a coincidence.

This is what happens when you allow gum chewing on the bus.

Heh. Nice reference.

If only that monster had been around when I was a kid…

Hope that’s Ed Crankshaft’s bus….

I’ve still never watched The Blob!

The 1988 remake of The Blob was a worthy effort, and the color of the school-bus-eating blob here reminds me more of that one than of the 1958 original. Lio has a strange magnetism that attracts all the Weird and Wonderful. He is priceless, the next step in the evolution of Mankind….

Kids are selfish; they want to enjoy a scary movie, but they don’t want their subconscious to have any fun…