by Shawn Robare | Apr 24, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Getting old is weird. As if succumbing to the crippling pull of childhood nostalgia in my mid-twenties wasn’t weird enough, lately I’ve been feeling a similar wave of emotion towards the content that I presented at the outset of this very website. Back...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 16, 2015 | Look
This past October I had a whole hell of a lot of fun spending the entire month talking about one of my favorite movies of all time, The Monster Squad. Part of what made those 31 days exciting for me was working on a project where I I got a chance to utilize my meager...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 8, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Lately I’ve been going back through some of my older sticker posts here at Branded and looking for gaps in what I’ve covered (80s pop culture-wise.) I was kind of surprised that I never invested in any E.T. stickers when I initially started collecting. ...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 1, 2015 | Awesome 80s Bedrooms, Branded in the 80s, Read
While writing about a bunch of these awesome bedrooms from 80s movies I figured at some point, if I want to keep finding new rooms to deconstruct I’d eventually have to branch out into TV series as well. I was actually kind of psyched about this because I...
by Shawn Robare | Mar 30, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Chef Boyardee is what being six years-old tastes like. Of all my senses the sheer power of the one-two punch of taste and smell as a means of time travel is unrivaled. Sure, the immediacy of sight, seeing imagery of our favorite toys, clothes, TV shows and movies is...
