by Shawn Robare | Apr 25, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
For this week’s spotlight we’re going to get a glimpse at one heck of a wonderfully strange kid… Strange Kids Club is the brainchild of Rondal Scott III, and is a mecca for all sorts of cool, obscure wonderment from nostalgia and art, to animation...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 19, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
For the second reader spotlight we have to go all the way over the pond to the UK to visit Mark Gabler. Mark was a little camera shy, but it’s cool because he made sure Danger Mouse and his trusty sidekick hamster Penfold rescued the postcard from their...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 18, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Last week’s post on the DC Comics cookbook insert from the 1981 reminded me that I have another one that’s been sitting on my desk for almost a year. I picked up a huge lot of old Woman’s Day magazines a year or so ago and I spent a weekend...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 14, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
One of the weirder areas of nostalgia for me lies within the realm of the not-so-exciting household products that either my mom would buy or that I’d see while grocery shopping with her as a kid. Sometimes I get the same sort of longing pangs for a...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 13, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
A little over a month ago I was inspired by a contest held over at the Retroist as well as Eclectorama’s traveling Spock campaign, and decided that I wanted to introduce a slightly more tactile section to Branded. I’d been sitting on a great gift...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 12, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Thought I’d take a second today to share this great gift that I received in the mail in response to my TMNT postcard project from a few weeks ago. Mr. & Mrs. McFavorite (of the fun podcast Open Your Toys) sent in this awesome vintage mini DC comics...
