by Shawn Robare | Jul 11, 2026 | Read
A million years ago (re: April of 2020) I was presented with an unlikely Monster Squad Mystery™ that set a fire under the collector that dwells inside of me. I wrote about the initial bits of the mystery before, but to summarize, a very cool mutual on social...
by Shawn Robare | Jul 3, 2026 | Read
A few weeks ago I wrote a piece about my experience getting into the music of Elliott Smith, specifically how I was afraid of approaching his art through the veil of his legacy and the heartbreaking end to his story. I was able to get past the fine details, unfocusing...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 20, 2026 | Read
My wife Jaime and I received a very awesome gift this past week when one of our buds on Bluesky offered to let us re-home a bunch of his TVGuide doubles, specifically almost the entirety of the 1983 issues. I had a trip digging through all of these old guides, scoping...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 17, 2026 | Read
I’ve been writing about pop culture and collecting for 20 years as of this past Spring and though I’ve skirted around the concept of obsession as a driver of collecting, I’ve never focused specifically on it. Over the past few years, I’ve managed to curb the majority...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 13, 2026 | Read
This weekend the wife and I took the kids to an evening screening of the new Masters of the Universe flick and I was both heartened to see the franchise treated so well, and kind of sad to see that the filmmakers kind of missed the point of one of my favorite...
