It’s saturday night at 10:00 P.M. and you’re 12 years old again. You know what that means, bedtime and GooseBumps. (Fist Pump!)

If you lived within 100 miles of a Pizza Hut and you went to school, you participated in the Book It! Program, and if getting free TMNT go-food meant you had to read a book, you probably read every R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps book there was. I’m not going to give you a refresher on any of the books, there are too many to mention. But I will tell you that my recent re-read of “Piano Lessons Can Be Murder” was riveting and I would recommend going back to check out this classic. There are 62 other nail-biters that were absolute must reads when I was in the 6th and 7th grade, and I’m pretty sure I would enjoy most of them now…IF there was a free pizza involved.

I would imagine that a funny joke comparing RL Stine to Stephen King has been made somewhere, but I’ll save the metaphors for a ‘Big League Chew’ article and just let you decide which one can still scare the crap out of you and which one probably never did.

RLly?

The King

In semi-related news, a Topeka, KS library was recently petitioned to remove/restrict 13 scandalous books and films from it’s selection due to the sexual nature of the items. Included in this list were racy titles such as “Sex for Busy People“, “The Joy of Sex“, “The Joy of Gay Sex“, “Brokeback Mountain” and the FILM version of (yes, film version) “Goosebumps: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp“.

That’s right…there are Goosebumps movies and they’re provacative. So if you’re in the 5th or 6th grade, grab yourself a copy from the library before it’s banned and watch some sexual Werewolves in the fever swamp, then pretend you read the book and earn a pizza. A simple Google Image search will tell you exactly what we’re talking about (even with SafeSearch on…bad Google).