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...
by Shawn Robare | Aug 1, 2015 | Awesome 80s Bedrooms, Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s been a little while since I dove in and deconstructed an awesome 80s era pop culture bedroom. This past week I had my mind blown a couple times when Pee-wee Herman shared the piece I did on his room from Pee-wee’s Big Adventure on Facebook and...
by Shawn Robare | Jul 18, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
As a kid I spent a disproportionate amount of time wandering around supermarkets and discount outlets every weekend with my mother. Like most kids my mom would drag me out to the store to do the weekly grocery shopping, but unlike most (I think) my mother usually...
by Shawn Robare | Jul 6, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s kind of weird when you think about the difference in experiences between “normal” folks and nostalgia addicts when we stumble upon something that makes us flash back on our youth. I think there’s a yin and yang to how we perceive...
by Shawn Robare | Jul 2, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s been awhile since I’ve waded into my personal archive of old magazine back issues and yesterday while moving something in the closet I saw a stack of them piled high and decided to scan through a few. Next thing I knew I was organizing a hundred misc...
