by Shawn Robare | Nov 20, 2023 | Read
The other day I got to thinking about the small collection of VHS tapes that I have sitting on my shelves and I wondered, if I had to chose a single tape to display, what would it be. If you know me at all, I’m fairly certain that you’d know the film I...
by Shawn Robare | Nov 15, 2023 | Read
In Hua Hsu’s poignant memoir Stay True, he brings up this idea of the harmony of experience as it pertains to loving a song, in his specific case, the Beach Boys God Only Knows from their masterwork Pet Sounds. Hsu describes the idea that as we’re introduced to a...
by Shawn Robare | Nov 12, 2023 | Read
“So basically, we’re at the part of the tour where we’re going to weed out the men from the boys…” There was no question in my mind, even on the cusp of turning fourteen, I was still a boy. I knew that before I begged my mother to let me join the Science Club at the...
by Shawn Robare | Nov 1, 2023 | Read
Even though being inside our garage was at least 10 degrees cooler than the blazing Florida heat in the driveway, it was still muggy and hot enough that I was sweating bullets. Because there were no windows in the garage, the only light that filtered in was from the...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 27, 2023 | Read
I have this morning ritual that plays out like finest of Swiss clockwork. Each night I set two alarms on my phone for the next morning, one for the buttcrack of morning and a second for fifteen minutes past the buttcrack of morning in case I just can’t drag my old and...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 14, 2023 | Read
On a rare date day, playing hooky from work with the wife, I found myself in a trendy, upscale antique store thinking that there was no way I’d be parting with any of my hard-earned money. But walking into JoRetro on this crisp fall morning I immediately locked...
