by Shawn Robare | Dec 19, 2017 | Branded in the 80s, Listen
On this episode of the show I take a minute to focus some of my thoughts about the latest chapter in the Star Wars film saga, Episode 8 – The Last Jedi. I dig into idea of how years worth of official canon affect how we view the movies and characters, then and...
by Shawn Robare | Dec 14, 2017 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Over the past year Publisher Insight Editions has comes across my radar a lot. In addition to the super cool Ghostbusters: A Visual History that I was gifted a couple Christmas seasons ago, I suddenly realized that I had a ton of their books either on my wish list or...
by Shawn Robare | Dec 12, 2017 | Branded in the 80s, Listen, Read
On this new episode of the Branded in the 80s podcast I’m going to attempt to solve a mystery, a cold case 30 years in the making. It’s a twisted tale of deception, a famous advertising slogan, mistaken identities, and murder. Welcome to Cereal, presented by Branded...
by Shawn Robare | Dec 7, 2017 | Branded in the 80s, Read
One of the aspects that I adore about collecting and sifting through 80s era ephemera is finding all the hidden gems and weird little connections between things that nine times out of ten we’d all miss until we really started paying closer attention. Whether it...
by Shawn Robare | Dec 5, 2017 | Branded in the 80s, Listen
In this episode of the show I switch gears from looking backwards to what it’s like to be a collector in the modern age. How does getting older change the way I look at collecting, and how can I refine and focus my efforts to best accomplish my goal to...
by Shawn Robare | Nov 30, 2017 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I want to preface this piece by bringing up a simple fact. Sometimes real life sucks. It’s awkward, weird, painful, and tends to derail us when we least expect it. Last August my father was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer and just a year after I had made...
