by Shawn Robare | Jan 24, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I wanted to start off 2011 and the end of my winter hiatus with something that I think is pretty damn cool. One of my goals with this site was to try and track down and share some of the more obscure things that I was really fond of as a kid. Sure,...
by Shawn Robare | Dec 17, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
As a slightly anticlimactic close to this mini Tron nostalgia week, I decided to close out with the wrapper to the 1982 Donruss Tron card set (as a bookend to the stickers I posted on Wednesday.) It’s not the most engaging wax wrapper design. In fact...
by Shawn Robare | Dec 16, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Though I feel completely like a child of the 80s, I have to say that being born in 1977 there were a handful of 80s pop culture events in which I completely missed the boat. Tron and the boom of arcade gaming are a couple phenomena that I didn’t get to really...
by Shawn Robare | Dec 15, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Well, 2010 is shaping up to be one hell of a year. I’ve had some of my highest highs with personal projects and experienced some personal family tragedies that I had hoped never to live through. Though I still haven’t recovered from the latter,...
by Shawn Robare | Nov 9, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I’m breaking out of my post Halloween downtime to remind everyone that back in 1982 Molly Ringwald and who I believe is a very young Emily Schulman (the nosey pugnacious next-door-neighbor on Small Wonder) wanted you to eat your raisins. If raisins are...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 31, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Well, we finally made it to monster number 31 and Halloween day! Today’s big-headed bad guy is probably one of the most feared villains in the Ghostbusters rogue’s gallery (coming in just a hair below Gozer), the Boogieman! That’s right, the...
