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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: #17, Just a Thug (a Mutant Thug)!
Well, it's day 13 of my 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown and I haven't been slowing down...
31 Days of Monsters: #16, Mr. Sandman, leave my dreams be!
Welcome back to my 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown, day 16! In honor of the 25th...
31 Days of Monsters: A Halfway Countdown Recap and a Contest!
Welcome back to my 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown! This is just a quick post to...
31 Days of Monsters: #15, Minotaur!
We're all the way up to the halfway point of the 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown! ...
31 Days of Monsters: #14, Moss Monster!
Welcome back to my 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown! I'm counting down 31 of my...
Paying tribute to a gentle monster…
I just wanted to take a second and help spread the word about another interesting blogging...
31 Days of Monsters: #13, Sewer Rats Redux!
Welcome back to my 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown! In honor of the 25th...
31 Days of Monsters: #12, Road Warrior Troll!
Welcome back to my 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown! In honor of the 25th...
31 Days of Monsters: #11, Mummy Zombie!
Welcome back to my 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown! It's day eleven and in honor...
31 Days of Monsters: #10, The game is a(severed)foot!
Welcome to day 10 of my 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown! In honor of the 25th...
31 Days of Monsters: #9, A trio of cartoon-y monsters!
Welcome back to my 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown! In honor of the 25th...
31 Days of Monsters: #8, Spengler Monster!
Welcome to the second week of my 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown! I'm counting...
31 Days of Monsters: #7, the Devil!
Welcome back to my 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown! In honor of the 25th...
31 Days of Monsters: #6, Tenctonese+Bart Simpson+Spongebob+a Block of Cheddar=Creepy!
Welcome to day six of my 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown! All through October I'm...
31 Days of Monsters: #5, Some of the ghosts that kicked off the animated series!
Welcome back to my 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown! In honor of the 25th...
31 Days of Monsters: #4, Zombie Pirates are 50% nerd gold!
Welcome back to my 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown! I'm counting down 31 of my...
31 Days of Monsters: #3, Bigfoot that looks more like a Yeti!
Welcome back to my 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown! In honor of the 25th...
31 Days of Monsters: #2, Sp-Ham-Man!
Welcome back to my 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown! In honor of the 25th...
31 Days of Monsters: #1, The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!
Alright, welcome to the first official post of the Halloween season here at Branded in the...
They look awesome, but they taste like 1950s science…
Before I start my Countdown to Halloween proper, I wanted to give a quick update on my candy...
It’s coming, creeping and crawling its way like a shambling zombie towards your mortal soul…
I was going to hold this post until Friday, but I've got a short week at work, and since today...
Some candy selections from the 2009 season…
The Halloween season is pretty much in full swing. It looks like the Netherworld Haunted...
Peel Here #94: A lone Snork…
I still have a small stack of stickers that are in desperate need of scanning, so to buy myself...
The new Target Halloween and some thoughts on commercialistic branding…
I talk a lot about this idea that I have about branding and how one can transmute the miasma of...
Peel Here #93: A sad substitute for a lack of BJ and the Bear stickers…
I figure that since I have an essay up this week at Monkey Goggles (the swell Archie McPhee...
Allee Willis is simply the bee’s knees…
(Allee Willis and Paul "Pee Wee Herman" Reubens) Do you ever have one of those days...
Peel Here #92: Smurf Me up the smurf…
You know, aside from the couple of upcoming DVD announcements here and there it's hard to...
Spoiler Alert! Orson Welles is looking for a lost sled. It answers to the name Rosebud…
I'd like to think that I don't go on all that many ranting jigs here at Branded in the 80s, but...
Who’d of thought Dots candy would be this cool?
I swear I'm starting to get a little crazier every year now. The beginning of September...
Peel Here #91: Attempting to jump over the flagpole only results in racking Mario in the nuts…
Most of the time I feel like I'm pretty in tune with the geeky nerd milieu having an...