Take Five A Day: The Magazine! You asked for it and now, you can on-demand it! Issue #1 of our magazine is available for order! 20 full-color pages devoted just to the DESERT ART series … Other than a few pages of text, the magazine is entirely comprised of full color checklists for however you […]

This is a fun list of songs posted by Tizmanian via the online service imeem.  Have some fun this friday.  Kick back, relax and roll! TakeFive Muzak

According to TV 19 in San Francisco, Metroxing has been sucked into a streetsweeper in a nasty street accident. See the live report here: Apparently, Metroxing thought he saw a rare Red Ransberg in the gutter outside his home.   We hope he is on the mend soon and we apologize for any TakeFive news update […]

The Wally hauler is just begging to be converted to an Apple hauler … All you need is some sandpaper, some white paint and a high res gray Apple logo … It’s like open heart surgery. Get knife, some medical sponges and clamps … go. Oh, and some stitches … And hey, the Wally hauler […]

Taking a further look into the entrails of our web analytics we find another interesting nugget of info.  The Top 10 cities where we currently are gaining visitors reveals mostly U.S. cities but there are indeed two non-U.S. cities that make the Top 10. Have your guesses in place before reading on.  Are you ready? […]

Peeking under the hood of the TakeFiveADay.com can be rather interesting.  When Metroxing and I decided to tackle another blog, we really didn’t know just what would turn people on regarding content which is why our first six months or so we wrote just about anything.  Since we are both media and culture omnivores, it […]

Bow down to your master!  Revealed for the first time anywhere on the internets!  Behold, one room of the collection of Metroxing! Just kidding, fellow TakeFivers!   The photo above is from an article in Wired for the Action Figure and Toy Museum located in … wait for it … Pauls Valley, Oklahoma!  You can view […]

Amazon has been selling toys and other products in what they accurately term frustration free packaging. If you need a quick refresher course on what we are talking about, here you go: It becomes pretty clear within a few seconds doesn’t it? 11 minutes vs 44 seconds…hmm…I wonder which version I will pick from Amazon?  […]

As if Aroldo P. of Italy hasn’t already done enough for us, he discovered a great screenshot of Pit Row that appeared in the CARS Magazine – Italian version. It is obviously shrunk down to fit our pages here but you can see it’s a puzzle for kids (cut out squares on the right) to […]

Aussies are a tough lot … “An Australian surfer punched a 16-foot shark in the head as he rescued his 13-year-old cousin who had been bitten on the leg and dragged beneath the water.” (Yahoo News) So, when they were mentioned earlier in year there were not many CARS to buy, that probably meant they […]