Flashback

Ok, so everyone’s heard William Shatner’s immortal cover of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds“. Now someone has created a psychedelic music video for it. With Lucille Ball and the rest of the cast of I Love Lucy. And The Peanuts. Damn, you gotta love YouTube…

Thank’s to Leah for the tip.

These things pretty much kept me alive for a year in middle school.



Note the “Artificially Flavored” disclaimer on the wrapper. Good thing that was there. Wouldn’t want kids to think they were flavored with actual mutant turtle.

These things had a lot going for them:

• They were a tie-in to a very hot commodity. TMNT was HUGE in 1990.
• They were filled with pudding. Not just pudding in fact, but Puddin’ Power!
• They came with trading cards. You can probably send your kids through college if you have a full set of them
• They were sold in our school’s cafeteria. Hmmm….wonder where my taste for junk food came from…

Sadly they don’t make these anymore. Haven’t for years. Another part of my childhood gone forever…

A site out of the Netherlands has instructions for every Lego set ever made! I can’t even begin to explain the waves of nostalgia that came back to me when I saw this. I have to believe almost every kid that grew up in the 80s playing with Legos. So my little Lego man hat’s off to you, anonymous Dutch dudes!