by Shawn Robare | Jan 27, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Since I started sharing Ste-vil King Macrocranios’s collection of vintage school book club flyers this week, I thought it would also be a cool opportunity to take a closer look at some of the stuff one might have ordered back in the day. Today I thought...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 25, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I’m a bit late in getting to this before Christmas, but I wanted to take a second and point to one of the coolest things I received during this past holiday season. I’ve been reading Roger Barr’s I-Mockery site for years, in particular during...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 24, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I wanted to start off 2011 and the end of my winter hiatus with something that I think is pretty damn cool. One of my goals with this site was to try and track down and share some of the more obscure things that I was really fond of as a kid. Sure,...
by Shawn Robare | Dec 17, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
As a slightly anticlimactic close to this mini Tron nostalgia week, I decided to close out with the wrapper to the 1982 Donruss Tron card set (as a bookend to the stickers I posted on Wednesday.) It’s not the most engaging wax wrapper design. In fact...
by Shawn Robare | Dec 16, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Though I feel completely like a child of the 80s, I have to say that being born in 1977 there were a handful of 80s pop culture events in which I completely missed the boat. Tron and the boom of arcade gaming are a couple phenomena that I didn’t get to really...
by Shawn Robare | Dec 15, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Well, 2010 is shaping up to be one hell of a year. I’ve had some of my highest highs with personal projects and experienced some personal family tragedies that I had hoped never to live through. Though I still haven’t recovered from the latter,...
