by Shawn Robare | Oct 3, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Welcome back to the Branded in the 80s Halloween Sticker Spooktac…er…actually I’ve decided to rename the countdown this year at the totally on point suggestion by my good buddy Paxton (of the Cavalcade of Awesome and my co-host on the Cult Film...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 2, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Continuing the Halloweeny sticker fun this month, today I have another sheet of vintage Hallmark stickers. This one hails from 1981 and has a really nice mix of monsters in a very fun early 80s illustration style. I really miss this kind of loose cartooning in...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 1, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s hard to break tradition, and the October tradition at Branded is to do my very best to treat write about or share something Halloweeny every day until Halloween. It’s the annual Countdown to Halloween, and this year is my 10th time celebrating this...
by Shawn Robare | Sep 23, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Back in 1997 when I first saw the Paul Thomas Anderson flick Boogie Nights I felt like my brain was going to melt. It wasn’t just that the film was amazing, it was and is still one of my favorite Anderson films, but it was one of the first times I experienced the...
by Shawn Robare | Sep 21, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
A couple weekends ago my girlfriend Jaime and I made the trek up to Oaks, Pennsylvania for Retro Con, a relatively recent toy and pop culture convention that I’ve wanted to check out for a few years and I had an absolute blast. There was a time in my life when I...
by Shawn Robare | Aug 13, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
A few months ago my buddy Ed over at AEIOU & Sometimes Why tipped me off to a mystery box swap that he was planning for this summer. Basically, he filled a box full of miscellaneous fun stuff (movies, toys, and ephemera) and a host toy (a Dracula Mego figure that...
