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 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...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 23, 2015 | Awesome 80s Bedrooms, Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s been a little while since I took the time to deconstruct an awesome 80s kid’s bedroom and I was recently in the mood to re-watch some Fred Savage movies so I thought it was high time that I take a closer look at Louis’ room from the 1986 flick,...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 18, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
This past month it was my turn to pick the movie up for discussion on the Cult Film Club podcast (the show I co-host with my buds Paxton Holley and Jaime Hood), and since we’re in the dead of winter and I just moved up to Maryland and am experiencing boatloads of snow...
