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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.
Ephemeral DVD special features…
Before DVD commentary or special features on laser discs, before the internet and imdb, there...
Goonies: the movie posters…
It's day two of Branded's week-long celebration of the Goonies. Today I thought I'd take...
Celebrating 25 years of the Goonies!
This week on Branded in the 80s I'm going to feature a series of posts in celebration of the...
Wax Paper Pop Art #6: Orange-Blue-Yellow
This week brings a slight theme, orange-yellow-blue. Most of the bubblegum card wax...
Eat your vitamins and turn your little sister blue with fear…
I'm about a week late with this as far as the 30th anniversary is concerned, but I ran across...
Peel Here #103: Look after Mr. Bond. See that some harm comes to him…
For the most part as a kid I was pretty unfamiliar with the whole cult of personality...
Wax Paper Pop Art #5: Kiss that damn duck already!
This week's WPPA brings an anniversary of an unlikely duo, Kiss and Howard the Duck. 33...
Silverhawks, Part 2: Soaring through the highway of the heavens in their flight…
As I mentioned in the first part of the discussion on the Silverhawks cartoon, there isn't a...
Silverhawks, Part 1: A Rainbow in the night…
I realized the other day that while I've been making a concerted effort to make my way through...
Zartan Zaturday: When Zartan confuses Heavy Metal with Glam Rock…
Charles over at Eclectorama and Eric at Toyriffic recently proposed a little blogging crossover...
Wax Paper Pop Art #4
This week brings my favorite wax pack wrapper, the Incredible Hulk, 1979. I love the...
Concept vs. Execution: Digging a bit deeper into Thundarr…
I sort of wanted to dig a little deeper into the Thundarr cartoon. While I was doing the...
The Nerd Tux…
I'm finding that Woman's Day magazines are gold mines for awesome vintage kid-centric...
Talking about the 1st Episode of Thundarr the Barbarian…
So I finally received my copy of the Warner Bros. Presents Saturday Morning Cartoons, 1980s DVD...
Wax Paper Pop Art #3
This week, Rocky IV wrappers from 1985. Talked about the stickers from this set here....
Tiny head-shaped cockpits ARE the 80s…
It's kind of strange sensation, but there are a lot of toys that should scream "80s" for me,...
Peel Here #102: L-L-L-L-Love that Pop-Pop Culture!
It's kind of weird when I think about it, but even though I feel like I experienced a good...
Wax Paper Pop Art #2
Today’s Wax Paper Pop Art is a wrapper from the 1980 Topps Weird Wheels sticker card set...
I can still hear the laughter echoing from the Filmation Studios hallways 25 years later…
After reading Adam Eisenberg's Thundarr article from a 1980 issue of Fantastic magazine earlier...
Of Speeder Bikes and Jungle Gyms…
Riffing on a idea that Jerzy Drozd (of the Art & Story podcast, as well as a co-host with...
Man, I miss Steve Gerber…
I found some time this weekend and scanned another Thundarr the Barbarian article. This one...
Peel Here #101, Robotsploitation!
I've been thinking a little bit about 80s era robot nerdom because of all the excellent...
My kind of Pop Art!
I’ve been thinking it might be fun to block out Fridays at Branded in the 80s for posting...
Michael Knight & the Mystery of K.I.T.T. and the Blue Prowler!
Sometimes the most exciting aspects of nostalgia are those moments when I discover something...
Demon Dogs!
I've been getting pretty excited about the impending release of Warner Bros. Saturday Morning...
Peel Here #100! Celebrating 100 columns with my favorite set of stickers from the 80s!
Psychologically speaking, the urge to collect is a very strange thing. As a kid I wanted...
Left silhouette says Go, right silhouette says Host, in unison “Ghostbusters!”
Since I acquired a huge stack of Scholastic kid's magazines recently I've sort of been on a...
Playing Watson to Ronald McDonald’s Sherlock Holmes in 1979…
Once again, in the spirit of spring cleaning, I'm diving back into the stack of random stuff...
Peel Here #99: @$$#%&$ and Elbows!!!
Today's Peel Here dives back into a segment of sticker branding that I haven't much luck...
VHS means forever…
The wife and I have recently been culling through our collections of various things, trying to...