Light It UP

Did you enjoy Spirit the wonder dog? How about Yaahls and Kaahls? Oh the Curiosity landing was jake. The Milkshake won't leave without a little music and such. We do 'such' quite exquisitely. Slumber on. See ya in deux K de la thirteen. Okay now....almost midnight....here comes the new year....light the fireworks! Light 'em. Right now. Mine are lit can you see 'em?

Un-Link-Yourself

This one stopped by unannounced. Better let it in, but remember, it just wants to get out....and......rock.

RETRO TOY BLOG part three

SIMPLICITY. IS. FREE. So using the imagination, we have: toys of The Creative. Such as: a cardboard box, cardboard roll from paper towel, bubble wrap, pillows, blankets, socks, chalk or rocks, bubbles, shoe laces, nature (grass, sticks, dirt, snow, rain, clouds, sand and water), and whatever else you can come up with, how you use them is your fun. A big cardboard box makes a fort, as does pillows and blankets; a small box makes a garage for your toy cars or box shoes or whatever; socks balled up make for sock wars and if you make it big enough and bend a hanger into the shape of a basketball net and slide it under the top of a shut closet door: basketball game; chalk for the outdoor artist; bubbles for the dreamer; shoe laces for the nautical lover; and anything else in nature that you can make a game out of. Remember when those were the best game of all: hangin' out with friends and just creating something original and goofy, maybe digging in the sand at the beach or putting blades of grass together to make a whistle or trying to guess animals out of cloud shapes while lying on your back in the grass looking skyward in the summer. That feeling may be what life is really all about. Simple isn't it.

Whipped Cream Day

With your marshmallows try an Icee. Why not? Let these two merrymakers get you thinkin about the wonderful snowy whiteness of wintertime. Maybe you saw that The Milkshake was spammed, but the garbage has been taken out to the curb and is gone. No worries. Comments are disabled but you who know me know the ways to reach out. One of you had done so recently with a simple thought: where the heck is winter? Well chant this tune and it will show up. Help it out. There's nothing so great as waking up to a whipped cream day!

Living It, Believing It, Make it Work Out

Eleven billion miles from home....hope he packed a sammich or sumpin'. Voyager is 11,000,000,000 miles and 35 years out from its lanuch from earth. It was late summer 1977. Disco was sucking up the radio. The US was having a post-party hangover from it's year-long bicentennial celebration. Saturday Night Live was....fresh and funny. The Voyager's 1 and 2 took off for a trip to infinity and beyond. Now it was announced today from JPL in Pasadena that Voyager 1 has officially reached an area sort of like a particle interstate highway. The ship is joining the flow....heading for interstellar space. Below is a nice little animated video of what Voyager 1 is experiencing right now. Getcha feelin kinda starry-eyed, doesn't it? Little bit? Let's let Justin hayward, John Lodge and the Moody Blues great tune Gemini Dream rock us to deeeeep spaaace! DEEEEEEEP SPAAAAAACE....

Crud, Stuff, n junk

The Storage Wars crew is back with new epi's Tuesday on A&E. Anyone else getting addicted to their schtick? Emails and texts to the Milkshake head offices have slowed and so will the Milkshake's patter after the new year; we'll ease it down with the posts till probably late spring, but make sure to click back on the summer past to revisit some of the tunes and other crud you enjoyed....meanwhile, still to come this month is our BIG RETRO TOY BLOG part 3 (final part), and some Christmastime music and cartoon fun; and a year-ending update of the Mars Curiosity rover along with other enrapturable sciency geeky stuff n junk. ....O we are wordsmiths, are we knot?