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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.
Spock boldy went where not many Mego action figures have gone before, the house of Branded!
Well, as I've hinted at in the past month, the house of Branded was visited by none other than...
Peel Here #108, These stickers are Maniacal
So, continuing with the slight Valentine's Day theme and as a preview for the Maniac post I...
Wax Paper Pop Art #22, the girly romance edition!
So even though I'm not a huge fan of Valentine's day, it is just around the corner and I...
Before the Garbage Pail Kids we had the Crabbage Patch Teenagers!
Getting a chance to look at all these old book club flyers reminded me that I have a stack of...
In life you only need to be a genius for 15 seconds…
I never questioned whether or not history was written in stone until I had my eyes opened by a...
Vintage Book Club Flyers Part 3, Scholastic’s Arrow, TAB, and Honeybee clubs…
This week brings yet another set of vintage book club flyers from the 80s, though sadly it's...
Wax Paper Pop Art #21, Where no Spock Mego figure has gone before…
A little while ago I agreed to take part in a fun project for Charles over at Eclectorama...
I wonder if Santa and Mrs. Claus ever did the bike dance from RAD when they were dating…
I know it's a little late for Christmas missives, but I was away from Branded during the...
School Book Club Flyers from the Past part 2, Weekly Reader!
So this week I thought I'd dig a little deeper into the whole school book club flyer phenomenon...
Wax Paper Pop Art #20, More wrappers saved from the garbage pail (pun-tastic!)
Been doing a bunch of collection culling, house cleaning and framing these past couple of weeks...
Can you hear me Major Tom, it’s Webster and I’m floating in a most peculiar way!
Since I started sharing Ste-vil King Macrocranios’s collection of vintage school book...
459 square inches of Awesome…
I'm a bit late in getting to this before Christmas, but I wanted to take a second and point to...
Holy crap! Vintage Book Club Flyers!
I wanted to start off 2011 and the end of my winter hiatus with something that I think is...
Wax Paper Pop Art, Tron edition!
As a slightly anticlimactic close to this mini Tron nostalgia week, I decided to close out with...
Smuckers missed the boat by not having a tie-in neon blueberry flavored Tron jam…
Though I feel completely like a child of the 80s, I have to say that being born in 1977 there...
Peel Here #107, Hey, hey, hey, it’s the big Master Control Program everybody’s talking about…
Well, 2010 is shaping up to be one hell of a year. I've had some of my highest highs with...
Molly ringwald wants you to eat your raisins!
I'm breaking out of my post Halloween downtime to remind everyone that back in 1982 Molly...
Return of the 31 Days of Monsters, Day 31: The one, the only, Boogieman!
Well, we finally made it to monster number 31 and Halloween day! Today's big-headed bad...
Return of the 31 Days of Monsters, Day 30: Demon Ruler of Toyland!
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Return of the 31 Days of Monsters, Day 29: the Ghosts of Warduke & General Kael!
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Return of the 31 Days of Monsters, Day 28: Slimer & Hyde, Together Again!
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Return of the 31 Days of Monsters, Day 27: Whodunit Houdini?
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Return of the 31 Days of Monsters, Day 26: A bed of Snakes? Yeah, that’s probably my worst nightmare…
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Return of the 31 Days of Monsters, Day 25: When Giant Mantids Attack!
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Return of the 31 Days of Monsters, Day 24: Vampire Gargoyle!
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Return of the 31 Days of Monsters, Day 23: The Vacuum Cleaner…From Hell!
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Return of the 31 Days of Monsters, Day 22: You Tell ’em I’m Coming…and HELL’s Coming with Me!
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Return of the 31 Days of Monsters, Day 21: Beware the rock demon Thons!
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Return of the 31 Days of Monsters, Day 20: Victor, the creepy baby-eyed ghost…
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Return of the 31 Days of Monsters, Day 19: Which came first, the Ghostbusters or the Real Ghostbusters?!?
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