I'll Just Wait for the Movie

One of my favorite picture books is written by Chris Van Allsburg.  In 1995, he released Bad Day at Riverbend, a story set in the southwest.  In Riverbend, a typical southwestern town, every day is like the other...until one day, a stagecoach with no driver shows up, covered in SLIME!  Determined to figure out who cause this atrocity, the sheriff sets out into the desert to find the culprit.

That book was written 16 years ago, before the internet was commercially available.  Additionally, iPods, iPads, Kindles, smart phones, 3G networks, WiFi, and a plethora of other electronic devices weren't in existence either.  No Matrix Trilogy, hybrids, or Lady Gaga.  A lot has changed since 1995.

I'd love to tell you how the story ends, but that's not what this is about.  With such a wonderful delivery, you certainly wouldn't do justice to this story, speccifically the title of this post.  It makes me appreciate the blinding light the story describes.  Read to find out exactly what I'm talking about, because after all, you won't be able to wait for the movie.  Just be careful of the slime and blinding lights.

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