Lio by Mark Tatulli for January 10, 2025

Mr. Google failed to show me who Mortimer Creech is or was. Anyone?

He seems like a guy that reads the original versions of fairy tales.

I like to read the lyrics of Christmas songs in a sephulcral voice for my grands. They love the way I do Santa Claus is coming.

What happened to to the hear no evil kid?

It’s the end of the world as we know it …

His story builds character, as Calvin’s dad would say.

One of those Goosebumps books.

Ick! What was the library thinking hiring this guy?

The weirder the better for Lios taste!

Unlike the rest of the wimpy, wimpy, wimpy kids!

Next week’s guest reader , Stephen King !

Ah, of course Lio is the only one who truly appreciates a good scary story.

Love the pig tails in the air.

This is one very clever single panel comic.

It’s all in the technique of the reader. Apparently a well done job……

Look for Morri Creech on the arts dot gov website. His poetry gets pretty dark!

Reminds me of an audience shot from the screen PoV that shows everyone crying except for an amused “Uncle Fester” (he didn’t have a name when Addams drew that cartoon).

Not Neil Gaiman?

Slightly off=topic, but I remember a recording of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf , narrated by Boris Karloff.

“And they all lived agonizingly ever after.”

The type of story time reader more likely to cause anxiety in children than the group mentioned do often lately.

Thanks Mark! This is my kind of poetry.

I wonder what story he readed.

I prefer The Edwad Gorey House. The Gashlycrumb Tinies. A is for Amy who fell down the stairs. B is for Basil assaulted by bears. C is for Clara who wasted away. D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh. ……