Billy B. and his cousin Brenda enjoyed watching the Friday Night Scary Movie. Brenda was a few years older than Billy B. and doted on him. She was his fun cousin. Neva J. was a surrogate mother to her niece. Brenda came from a religious fundamentalist background that allowed her to do very little that many girls her age were doing. Brenda spoke slowly like her dad Uncle Bill. She smiled often and enjoyed getting into mischief. Brenda did not possess the false artifice of holier than thou and was just what she seemed to be. Grandma A. thought she was a bit promiscuous…but that is what made her interesting. Billy B. thought of her as his sister.

October was a special month for Horror and Science Fiction movies. There was Frankenstein and Dracula as well as The Return Of The Mole People and This Island Earth and Steve McQueen in The Blob. The Blob came to Earth in a crashed space ship and it was indeed a gelatinous substance that a passing man found when he was investigating the crash and picked up the little Blob on a stick. As he watched the little glob of goo it suddenly climbed the stick in a rapid manner and attached itself to his arm. Soon the Baby Blob had consumed the curious gentelman and that is how after many human dinners it became an Adult Blob. The culmination of the movie was filmed in a movie theatre where the Blob, now gigantic oozed out of the Projectionist Room and began attacking the audience… The movie had a realism to it that was common in the scary movies of the day and the Blob seemed somewhat believable to the theatre audiences who already wondered what was in the Cry Room and what was the sticky substance on the floor underneath their feet.

As Brenda and Billy B. sat underneath their October blanket and munched Jiffy Pop Popcorn Brenda suggested that Billy B. go to the restroom and examine something she found on the sink. When Billy B. entered the bathroom he found a slime blob of gelatinous material resting on the sink and dripping onto the floor. At this same time, Brenda slipped up behind him and grabbed his shoulders and he let out a loud yelp! Brenda had placed a toy of the ’60s called Super Stuff on the sink and it looked remarkably like the Blob in the movie.

After the initial fright…Billy B. and Brenda laughed and laughed until it was time for her to go home and Neva J. was to drive her in the 57′ Chevy Convertible. As they drove to Brenda’s house…Neva J. insisted on enjoying the cool October air and left the top down.

‘Something is dripping on me,’ Brenda said with some apprehension.

‘Don’t worry my dear…it will be over well before we reach your house…, said Neva, J. with a Jack-O-Lantern smile on her face…