by Shawn Robare | Nov 12, 2024 | Read
Bubble Yum can go fuck itself. Like forever. Of all the crap that came along with being the sole caregiver of an elderly parent, the literal piss and shit, having had to dress or bathe my parents, or the endless fights, nothing haunts me quite like seeing or smelling...
by Shawn Robare | Nov 12, 2024 | Read
Sometime in the year of our lord 1991 I acquainted myself with the movie Highlander. Starring Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Roxanne Hart and Clancy Brown, the film had already developed a cult following in the five years since it had been unleashed in theaters. I...
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...