by Shawn Robare | Nov 7, 2024 | Read
The aroma of the cafeteria was meaty and sweet, yet with a base of disinfectant that nearly slapped me across the face as I shuffled in with my second-grade classmates. It was the end of my first week in this new school after having just moved to Orlando from Tampa...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 23, 2024 | Read
My bud Scott Serkland, who runs Serkworks Art Labs, has been doing some wicked creative illustration and design work for ages, and he just recently shifted his focus a bit to start a series of projects where he reverse-engineers pop culture products from the heyday of...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 2, 2024 | Read
Fucking Ed Piskor. The whole thing surrounding Piskor and the women he had gross interactions with and his eventual suicide has hit me hard. The voyeurism of watching it unfold over a week, the polarization of folks using the whole thing as a rallying cry to...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 30, 2024 | Read
The thing about being an obsessive fan of a very specific thing is that your enthusiasm for the subject will eventually burn out because there is nothing new left to discover about it. First, you absorb it, you watch the movie repeatedly, re-read a book, watch every...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 11, 2024 | Read
I love Robocop. I have since 1987 when I saw it, unedited and in its full gory glory at the too-young age of 10 years-old. The movie defines and underlines a transition in my life from child to pre-teen when my parents finally stopped struggling to hold me back from...
by Shawn Robare | Nov 26, 2023 | Read
I could smell the ammonia leaking from a box on the wobbly pallet from two aisles away, and I knew it would be one of those nights. Four months into my first real job, I worked the graveyard shift on the stock crew of my local Kroger supermarket in Duluth, Georgia. I...
