I mentioned recently about the debacle that ensued when bizzaro fiction writer Mark Allen Berryhill attempted to take a greyhound bus to BizarroCon 2014. I may have suggested some more interesting ways that the universe could delay Mark beyond weather and accidents should he ever take a bus again.
This was not particularly sensitive to Mark.
As such, I thought we should do something nice for Mark. As such, here are some recommendations for him that might sooth him from his recent stress:
- The Wayward Bus, John Steinbeck
- The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories, Etgar Keret (a bus is involved in the titular story)
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe (all about Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters travelling across the country in a colorfully painted school bus named “Furthur”)
- The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis (a Christian allegorical tale about a bus ride from hell to heaven)
- Speed (not a book, but this movie of a bus that will explode if its speed drops to less than 50 miles per hour is too good here to pass up)
Well, nobody ever said I didn’t have a mean streak in my humor.
Published on November 19, 2014 16:00