by Shawn Robare | Jun 15, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
As I approach my 10th anniversary of running Branded in the 80s I can’t help but feel a pull towards revisiting some of the topics and products that helped to launch the site back in 2006. I’m a different person than I was at the outset and enough time...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 5, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I spend a lot of time writing and creating stuff for Branded to celebrate all the things that I loved about growing up in the eighties. Part of why I do this is to share my collection of junk that I’ve amassed over the years, and part of it is trying to capture...
by Shawn Robare | May 14, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So, speaking of all these throwback digital trading cards I’ve been working on, I totally forgot that I was interviewed last October by Ryan Cracknell of Non-Sport Update Magazine (and his site Trader Cracks)! Just got my hands on a copy of the issue, the...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 30, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
While discussing Mannequin on the latest episode of the Cult Film Club (a podcast I co-host) we brought up the fact that in the 80s “unconventional” romances on film was sort of a thing. You know, boy sculpts girl, boy gets fired for taking too long...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 24, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Getting old is weird. As if succumbing to the crippling pull of childhood nostalgia in my mid-twenties wasn’t weird enough, lately I’ve been feeling a similar wave of emotion towards the content that I presented at the outset of this very website. Back...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 8, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Lately I’ve been going back through some of my older sticker posts here at Branded and looking for gaps in what I’ve covered (80s pop culture-wise.) I was kind of surprised that I never invested in any E.T. stickers when I initially started collecting. ...