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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.
Halloween Mask Madness, Day 8: Just wanted hairy, you got hairy!
Well, it's the beginning of the second week of the Countdown to Halloween and I've been having...
Halloween Mask Madness, Day 7: Love the modern lines of Death Studios!
We've come to the end of the first full week of the Countdown and there have been roughly 88...
The Last Man on Earth is Legend!
So continuing on with the Vincentennial celebrations, today I wanted to take a look at my...
Halloween Mask Madness, Day 6: I’n not just any Bith, I’m Figrin D’an!
It's day six of the countdown and once again we're dipping into some familiar territory with...
Halloween Mask Madness, Day 5: Don Post beyond the stars!
It's day five of the countdown, and I thought I'd take a look at some more Don Post masks with...
Halloween Mask Madness, Day 4: A Don Post Extravaganza!
Welcome back to day four of Branded's Countdown to Halloween! Today's ad is really cool...
Halloween Mask Madness, Day 3: Let Dick Smith take you to Space!
For day three let me present an ad for Dick Smith's iconic Space Creatures make-up/mask kits...
Halloween Mask Madness, Day 2: Fit for a Famous Monster…
Welcome back to the Month of Monster Mask Madness! For today's feature I thought I'd...
Halloween Mask Madness, Day 1: Marvel at those Monster Masks!
Welcome to the first day of Branded in the 80s 2011 Countdown to Halloween! This year is...
Halloween Mask M-ad-ness!
Well, there are just two short days before the official beginning of the 2011 Countdown to...
PCP #13, Ted Seko!
Well folks, the month of October is almost upon us, and before I slip into a daze of daily...
PCP #12, CT from Nerd Lunch!
This week's PCP spotlight is on Carlin "CT" from Nerd Lunch! I think I originally got to know...
Some more Halloween-y toys on the pegs…
This past weekend I ended up hitting a few stores around town looking for some new toys that...
Digging deeper into the story of E.T.
Here's my second and final Monkey Goggles article that was originally published a little over a...
Yeah, I was that guy in high school…
It just dawned on me that Monkey Goggles seems to have shuttered (there's been no new content...
PCP #11, Turning the dial up to eleven with the Cavalcade of Awesome!
In the immortal words of Ferris Buller, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and...
A Very Gummy Halloween…
Well, now that we're in September most of the stores have started rolling out their seasonal...
Put the Needle on the Record…
I have my sister Beth to thank for introducing me to music in the early 80s. It started...
Halloween smells awesome!
I spend a lot of time writing about branding and marketing, and I suppose in a way I'm sort of...
Taking a look at the first season of the ThunderCats!
So I recently caught the first couple episodes of the newly relaunched ThunderCats cartoon and...
A bit more Halloween-y fun!
We're just down the street from Halloween town with August almost upon us, and it's getting...
PCP Spotlight #10, Ladyjaye bringing the Turtles to Eidos!
It's been a little while, but the Post Card Project is back with a new reader to...
Move over TMNTs, The Transformers are going to Hang Ten!
So, picking up from where I left off last week when discussing some of the things that jumped...
A Little Halloween in July!
Longtime readers of the site will know that Halloween is a big deal at Branded. It's the...
90s era SNICK is coming back, and I hope it brings Pete and Pete with it…
Did you know that Nickelodeon, based on fan outcry, was planning to bring back a chunk of their...
Taking a closer look at Season 1 of the Transformers…
I've spent the last five years building a library of cartoons on DVD and sometimes I fear that...
The smurfiest book I’ve read all summer!
One night when I was about 4 years old my mother was helping me get ready for bed when she...
Post Card Project Spotlight #9, taking a trip to Saturday World!
It's time for another PCP spotlight, and this week it's on Jason who runs the great pop culture...
Monster in My Pocket + M.U.S.C.L.E.s = OMFG! Series 1!
If there's one aspect of this site that I tend to neglect, it's a lot of the more current news...
PCP #8, Stalking thorugh upstate New York, it’s Jason Vorhees!
Catching back up with the Post Card Project, today's feature is on Jason who has a great toy...