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I’ve been writing about pop culture for almost 20 years and I can’t imagine stopping any time soon. Here you’ll find all of my current articles and an archive of the stuff I wrote for my defunct site, Branded in the 80s.
31 Days of Monsters, Day 5: Poso in honor of Puzo!
Hey boils and ghouls, it's Friday, Day 5 of the 31 Days of Monsters Countdown here at Branded...
31 Days of Monsters, Day 4: Jake Kong can run rings around this Colossus!
We're jumping back over to the Filmation Ghostbusters cartoon for today's 31 Days of Monsters...
31 Days of Monsters, Day 3: Venkman gets suited up in Psychomagnotheric Slime and is chaperoned by Shifter!
Well, it's Day 3, and I'm bouncing back to a couple of animation cels from The Real...
31 Days of Monsters, Day 2: Ghost Buggy is Raring to Go!
Alright, it's day 2 of the 31 Days of Monsters Halloween Countdown, and since I started out...
31 Days of Monsters, Day 1: Slimer’s coming to get you!
Welcome back to another Branded in the 80s Countdown to Halloween! This year marks my 7th year...
Oh, I just wanted to say good-bye and remind you that the good guys always win, even in the eighties…
So, um, HOLY CRAP! While I've been working away on the upcoming Halloween fun for the site I...
I’m a member in good standing in some pretty prestigious clubs…
I thought I wasn't going to find time to post this week, but I didn't want to sit on the...
There’s only one thing to say about the Topps Mars Attacks Book: Ack Ack Ack!
As an avid collector of trading cards, specifically those non-sports pop culture sets released...
Coming this Fall, The Branded in the 80s Megafun Saturday!
This week's assignment from the League is a really fun one (suggested by Poe Ghostal over at...
The Branded in the 80s Mixtape, sponsored by The League…
**Update, the 15th and final Mixtape has now been sent out. Thanks everyone who requested...
Remembering my first experience with The Monster Squad…
Twenty five years ago today The Monster Squad was released in theaters. August 14th, 1987. I...
Cue Lyndsy Buckingham’s Holiday Road and take a trip with the League…
This week's assignment from the League is all about capturing the last vestiges of summer and...
Visiting the Jim Henson Exhibit at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta…
It's so easy to get lost in the sea of social media sometimes, pining after all the cool events...
All I can say about this week’s assignment from the League is, well, I Don’t Know!
It's been a few weeks since I was on the ball enough to participate in a League Assignment, but...
Oh my god! They Killed Kinney! You Bastards!
I've written a bit about how the extreme violence in Robocop affected me as a kid, and if I had...
The only thing better than one glow in the dark Nightfighter Robocop, is two GITD Nightfighter Robocops!
For today's installment of Robo-madness I thought it would be fun to take a look at a couple of...
Taking a closer look at Robocop, literally…
Day three of the Robomadness is here, and along with it are a series of blueprint/schematic...
I’ll trade you a hand-less Murphy for your Boddicker’s Bros card!
It's day two of the Branded in the 80s Robocop-a-thon, and I thought I'd take this opportunity...
Celebrating 25 years of Robocop, Part Man, Part Machine, All Badass!
On July 17th, 1987 two very monumental things happened to me that would alter my perspective...
The League: The only thing that makes me feel patriotic!
The new topic for the League actually covers two weeks (with the next being a holiday and...
Branded in the 80s Headquarters, or creating the clubhouse I never had as a kid
I was prompted by Andrew Jones to document my recent room renervations in a conversation on...
Cartoon Commentary, taking a closer look at King Gorneesh from the Ewoks…
I've been on a kick lately going through my collection of ephemera and animation cels looking...
Top ten childhood crushes (Yup, I like-liked them…)
I've been feeling a little under the weather this week, not to mention in a very silly mood...
Octopus, or how the film Popeye taught me to fear and hate unconditionally…
For this Overdue Books column I wanted to try something a little different. Instead of...
Wax Paper Pop Art #34, A Very Special Episode in which Klinger Doesn’t Cross-dress…
I had a fun conversation with a fellow on twitter this week about the line of M*A*S*H action...
Hi, my name is Shawn and I’m a mechanical pencil nerd…
A couple weeks ago I shared my love for the vintage Mead Trapper Keeper folder system. Well,...
The most powerful cake pans in the universe!
While cleaning up and organizing Branded HQ I found a handful of loose catalog pages that my...
Wax Paper Pop Art #33, The Arcade and Video Game edition…
It's been a long time since I was super excited to catch an upcoming Disney animated film that...
New League assignment, my Top Ten favorite movie villains…
It's been almost a month since I've turned in an assignment for the League (I took a couple off...
Is that Kraft Mac and Cheese under that pepperoni, or do you just want to die for dinner?
It's been awhile since I dipped into my collection of old advertisements I clipped from my...