by Shawn Robare | Feb 22, 2012 | Branded in the 80s, Read
As a kid I completely missed out on the whole M.U.S.C.L.E. men craze as I was concentrating all my playtime and allowance money on Garbage Pail Kids stickers and G.I. Joe & Transformers figures. It’s not that I wasn’t aware of them, or how cool...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 20, 2012 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Coming back off of a hiatus always feels a little herky-jerky, what with trying to dig up some inspiration and cleaning off the cobwebs of my practically non-existent HTML skills. This year was a little different in that over the last few months I’ve been...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 16, 2012 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So last week I participated in the inaugural week of “The League”, a themed writing assignment that is the brainchild of Brian over at Cool & Collected. It was really fun to tackle a topic, and then to see what all the other participants had to...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 8, 2012 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Recently Brian over at Cool and Collected posed the idea that a bunch of us like-minded writers, toy-fanatics, bloggers, and collectors should come together once a week or so and all write separate articles with a singular topic. This way we can all get some...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 23, 2012 | Branded in the 80s, Read
One aspect of the American pop culture experience that I find endlessly intriguing is how certain portions of it so completely subvert class, race, religion, and creed. It’s hard these days to pin down someone’s race or religious beliefs based solely...
