by Shawn Robare | Jun 18, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Thanks to an awesome eBay store, the Swoopermarket, which stocks a really awesome variety of 80s vintage stickers, I was finally able to procure a sheet of stickers that I’ve been trying to get my hands on for a while. Back around Christmas I stumbled upon an...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 14, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Obviously the main reason I began putting this site/blog/podcast (etc) together is my love of mulling over nostalgic memories and all the crap I had/wanted/loved as a kid. Well there is an aspect to this desire that is even more seductive than the nostalgia for stuff...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 13, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Yesterday marked the passing of one of the most memorable TV personalities from my childhood growing up in the 80s, Don Herbert, better known as Mr. Wizard. Here’s the statement his family issued on the website this morning:“It is with deep sadness that we...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 11, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Finally, after a month of waiting, I have my own car back from the shop. The paint job looks great again (as it should for the frickin’ price my insurance company paid, which makes me wonder what in the hell kind of paint job you’d get at a Maaco for only...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 8, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Read
While rifling through more comics and comic scans I’ve managed to come across a few more cool Saturday Morning Cartoon ads from the mid to late 70s, so I’ve put them together as a sort of addendum to the Essential Saturday Morning Cartoon Ads, 1979-1989,...