Thursday, February 1, 2018

When a TOY gets his own Month: Even the Shortest Month of The Year sparks & sparkles. That counts alot in Toyland’s Hall of Fame & Acclaim. How ASK: Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith's Literary Genre known as Eventology (since 1990) brands a Vintage Classic.




FEBROWARY ©2017
 Unveiled on February 1, 2018 - 5:38 AM CST
Now an Official EVENTOLOGICAL HOLIDATE



With Arms wide open, 
BROW welcomes The Day.
All 28 of them since February is now all his.
TOY's DeFUNition of Carpe Diem.


Once Upon a Time...

Twas Memorial Day Monday of last Year in 2017 when my Resale Shop Excursions (a yearly Ritual) took me to Village Resale on West Roscoe in Chicago’s trendy Lincoln Park. While searching high and low for unusual TOY-Land Collectibles, I found a most unique TOY entirely different from any Ordinary Ones that I had ever seen in nearly 65 years, staring up at me from a Bin of Lost & Orphaned TOYS .


ENTER:  That which is DUPE:  Distinctive, Unparalleled, Peerless & Emblematic:

Unique enough for me, I bought him (assuming he was a him); brought him home & a few Days proceeded later to embark on a June PhotoShoot that was beyond pleasant, biking along The Chicago LakeFront when The Greenery of Summer was peaking, peeking and piquing, leaving its indelible Mark, stopping at Areas du Nature that appeared to be conducive to what I wanted The New TOY’s Aura & Air to embrace.



TOYS (like Humans) who do not conform to any given Rules have The Best Chance of becoming Legends and finding themselves given as Presents, becoming a Presence in The Life of any Playful Person or Pet and play-filled Situation and ultimately become swell enough to be immortalized in a great Number of Ways that include their own Holiday and/or Hall of Toy Fame Admission, where Acclaim awaits them at the Front Door.




Naming TOYS is Part of The Job that (if allowed) can be classified as: FUN to do.  Sometimes The Name comes easily (enough).  When I was matched with my Beautiful Calico Cat, I immediately blurted out that her Name was Cali and that Title has stuck PURRfectly since. She even approves – apPURRves.  Of course, she has a much longer – full-strength Body & Name (Cali von Koop-Hof, The FURSt), but she’s known in The Twitterverse merely as #Cali_The_Calico, Star of my April 18, 2017 Interivew when she sneezed-out-loud that was billed as "The Sneeze heard around The World" & London Cat Expo’s Cat of The Day for January 10, 2018.  Cali is a Force and FURce to be reckoned with in the most delightful Way. Her Curiosity of what I have  learned from her as a suPURR Species, the most interesting Pet I have ever known, collected and saved would make Cali The Calico, a Top Anchor on a leading Broadcasting System.

Then, on Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 2 PM in Anticipation of:

FEBROWARY’s ARRIVAL

I decided to read BROW’s (aka:  The Exalted Green Thing’s) Label to find out this duo-toned Green enBROWed Creature was once a Celebrity in his former Life before One of my beloved TOYS, being licensed to:


Spin Master & named:  Yo Gabba Gabba back in 2008.


You do not need a Ph.D. in Arithmetic (as one of my Closest Confidantes, Robert E. Hofstadter has earned) to figure-out “The Math” that this TOY is now Ten Years Old:

2018 – 2008 = 10

and since The Timing is on-Target to officially celebrate Gabba’s Entry into Double Digits:


1 + 0 = 10 OR his Tenth Year ABC: #Anniversary_Birthday_Celebration 


throughout 2018 could be The Start of a FUN Year and his Resurgence.  As Harry Porterfield (former AnchorMan of CBS Chicago) would state:  "Let’s revisit that…whatever that former Story  would be."


 



DIGGING DEEPER: Leave no BROW unturned:

With The Help  and relative Ease of Google & The Wonders of The Internet, as spotted on eBay:


https://www.ebay.com/b/Spin-Master-Yo-Gabba-Toys/168215/bn_1920033?rt=nc&_pgn=6


This listing is for a Yo Gabba Gabba Dance Time! Brobee, bt Spin Master. Brobee is in great used condition (see pictures). Talks and moves, push button in foot to make him sing and dance. Works perfect. Takes 4 AA batteries (not included). 


Better slide this Blog by Spin Master who appeared at ChiTAG: Chicago Toy And Game Fair on Saturday, November 14 2017 when they were in Town hawking their latest TOYS for Christmas & Chanukah Gift Giving in December. I chatted with their Team Members and played with some of their latest TOYS being exhibited for The Masses.

On Twitter, you too can meet:

Award-winning entertainment and toy company. 
Need help? customercare@spinmaster.com
Worldwide / Toronto + LA



A Chicago First:
A PlayGround for TOYS


You have to figure:  If you’re lucky enough to get The Attention of “America’s Premier Eventologist” to plan a HOLIDATE that will rekindle The an old, Lovable TOY, then it’s High Time to revisit that TOY & spread some Vintage Cheer along Way. After all, that’s how:


"his-TOY-ry is made. History in ATC: All Things TOY."
New ASKIAN Word: ASK: ADRiENNE SiOUX KOOPERSMiTH
Wednesday, January 31, 2018 – 5:32 PM CST
Thursday, February 1 2018 - 4:56 AM CST


Who’s next?  Furby revisited.  
Being introduced by Cali The Calico as: 
#Furby_Fridays with The Emphasis being on The Hashtag? 
Possibly so.




Now with this TOY (documented as few others are) a specific Characteristic stuck out above his Coloration, Stance, Prominence, Poise and Personality.  That was THE BROW (an Eye Brow since it was above his Eyes that appeared more like a Pipe Cleaner) parallel exactly across his Forehead (with no Break for The Ridge above his Nose), truly a Species who makes a direct Statement that cannot be argued. 

Coincidentally, in retrospect, 2017 appeared to be “The Year of The EyeBrow” as so many Millennials were thickening and widening theirs; painting them on and probably tattooing them into place…Eternity.  Upon First Sight, BROW makes a Statement.  He warrants a Conversation with 3 Fire Engine Red Horns jetting from his Heady-Head-Head. Heads, of course, come in all Sizes and Shapes as displayed here while BROW visits with an Elephant along The Bike Path's PlayGround.






HOW TO GET MORE ME: MILEAGE & 
EXPOSURE FOR A TOY WHO EVIDENTLY COMMANDS ATTENTION:



Marketing 101.
Whether the Theme is at Mariano's - @marianos
or via Greeting Cards,
 a Series of Books about
BROW
throughout The Seasons,
The Internet 
or 
your own Spicy Macaroni'd Noodles,
having your own  Shopping Cart 
(fit-to-scale)
that matches your Motif and Horns
is APP_ealing.

Who could ASK for more?

In the PRAM: Public Relations - Advertising - Marketing & Branding Industries, my New-but-Old TOY needed a Platform in which to make his Stand relevant and prevalent. After all, he did catch My Eye (both of them) hidden amongst all of "The Other Miscellanea" at The Shop.  And, I had, have and hold "The Solution" since EVENT-Making comes Second Nature to me known as: 

"America's Premier Eventologist"
&
"The Premier Eventologist in The History of The World"


Two Titles I received by award-winning Journalists, 

Gene Koprowski of Insight Magazine [Washington, DC] in 1997 

and

Eric Zorn of The Chicago Tribune  [Chicago, Illinois] in 2001),

I decided to quietly and vigilantly wait Eight (8) Months (since [t]his Find & Purchase occurred at the very End of May, 2017) in order to properly unveil BROW to my Network that stretches across the World via my Social Media Connections (a Constituency that spans around The World) in early 2018…in February…that would be revised and re-APP-propriated as:

FEBROWARY©2017

from now on…in order to salute BROWS since all Creatures (Mammals) have them. And, with that being said, for the next Twenty-Eight Days, BROW owns the Month; he has his own Month to do with whatever he pretty much pleases to do, all thanks to the uploading of FUN Pictures & Photographs of that Ride up Lake Shore Drive that are revealing, hysterical and not too common place.  After all, that’s what TOYS are for. 




To reveal a lighter Side of Fancy that Stories are created from.

By just looking @ That Face, 
you have to scratch your Head 
wondering why He was ever given up
 (becoming a TOY Orphan at that).

Although none of us will ever know who shucked BROW off to Resale, We do know that his Manufacturer, Spin Master now has a new & very HO HO HO: Happy Occasion  every Year in February in which to celebraTOY  (when a TOY is celebrated and revered for The Sheer JOY that TOY brings & sets forth) as BROW did here in the lively Creation of an EVENT (properly known as a HOLIDATE in The Halls of EVENTOLOGY)  causing Creativity to flow forth and flourish.

Therefore now is the Time to say HI to BROW:


Hi Brow!

The long  and winding Road
that leads TOYS as BROW
to your Doorway 
begins with 1 single but stellar Step
after that Initial Encounter.


MORAL TO THIS STORY:  

We won’t be DUPE’d again.  Make your Way into off-beat Places during FEBROWARY, if you’re a TOY Collector and see who awaits you around The Next Corner.  Your BROW may only be an Excursion away.


If I did not google, I would never have known this TOY was “Somebody Special in his Day,” merely a Decade ago during The Era of Jerry Seinfeld's BEE Movie and GORF THE FROG's Emergence.  And, yes, you, too, can create EVENTS that bring out “The Best” in how We play  (out loud) whether it’s with New Old, Retail or Resale TOYS.  That’s the True JOY of what an Active Imagination brings to “The Proverbial TOY Box.” To commemorate this HOLIDATE, I will be posting 4 Photographs of BROW "around Town" for the entire Month of February, 2018.  


Once this Entry is read, conceptualized for its Ultimate Meaning, shared and distributed, I'm guessing eBAY will be getting an Onslaught of Sales from Buyers who will be joining me in this Action-Activity, one that promises Stories & lasting Moments to create a Life Time of Happy Possibilities.  Repeat:  February of 2019, same Time, same Blog...

In the Meantime and throughout February, 2018 I will be issuing  Four (4) Photographs  of BROW-around-Town daily on my Twitter Account:


@ASK_Koopersmith


to entice the General Public (consisting of Boys & Girls of every Age) of BROWnastics ® as this Folly is a Form of Gynmastics (working out to avoid Obesity) that stems from this entire ASKian & EVENTOLOGIcAL Mindset.

Won't you join us...






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