by Shawn Robare | Jan 31, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So this week I thought I’d dig a little deeper into the whole school book club flyer phenomenon of the 80s while also taking a look at one of the more recognizable clubs, Weekly Reader. Again, all of these scans come from the personal collection of the...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 28, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Been doing a bunch of collection culling, house cleaning and framing these past couple of weeks (trying to get a jump on Spring cleaning I guess), and in the process I’ve been digging back into my collection of Garbage Pail Kids. I’ve always wanted...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 27, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Since I started sharing Ste-vil King Macrocranios’s collection of vintage school book club flyers this week, I thought it would also be a cool opportunity to take a closer look at some of the stuff one might have ordered back in the day. Today I thought...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 25, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I’m a bit late in getting to this before Christmas, but I wanted to take a second and point to one of the coolest things I received during this past holiday season. I’ve been reading Roger Barr’s I-Mockery site for years, in particular during...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 24, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I wanted to start off 2011 and the end of my winter hiatus with something that I think is pretty damn cool. One of my goals with this site was to try and track down and share some of the more obscure things that I was really fond of as a kid. Sure,...
