by Shawn Robare | Oct 14, 2016 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I wanted to take a second and point to something very awesome, the Halloween 2016 release from one of my favorite independent companies, 8 Bit Zombie! I’ve mentioned Ross and his rad clothing and merch outfit 8BZ on Branded before what with his super cool...
by Shawn Robare | Aug 29, 2016 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Though I mainly enjoy flipping through old “mom” magazines to find cool vintage advertisements for extinct products, every so often I do dip in a little further and read some of the articles. Like the one I took a look at last week about kid’s...
by Shawn Robare | Aug 22, 2016 | Branded in the 80s, Read
One of the things that I talk a lot about when it comes to the 80s is this idea that because the pop culture of the decade was so loud, syndicated and homogeneous no matter where you lived in the United States, it’s like everyone who grew up through those years...
by Shawn Robare | Aug 19, 2016 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Long Time readers might remember that I used to have a lot of fun participating in a weekly pop culture project called the League of Extraordinary Bloggers, or just the League as I preferred to call it. The project was spearheaded by Brain over at...
by Shawn Robare | Aug 17, 2016 | Read
The Fresh Prince said it best when he declared… “So to you all the kids all across the land Take it from me, parents just don’t understand ” I’ve made no secret of the fact that I love pouring over old issues of various “mom”...
by Shawn Robare | Aug 9, 2016 | Branded in the 80s, Read
A little over a month ago I was farting around on Archive.org when I stumbled upon something magical. In the magazine rack section some amazing soul had uploaded over 100 issues of the now defunct Nintendo Power magazine. I was so excited about this I started...
