8-Bit Christmas is the Fruitcake of 80s Nostalgia Novels…
This is the first year in a long time when I’m doing my best to get into the holiday spirit for...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Dec 12, 2013 | Branded in the 80s, Overdue Books | 10 |
This is the first year in a long time when I’m doing my best to get into the holiday spirit for...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jan 8, 2013 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture | 5 |
From time to time I find myself flipping through 30 year-old issues of various Mom magazines looking for inspiration and cool ads to scan for the site. Over the past couple years I kept running across a series of ads for...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jun 22, 2012 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 2 |
I’ve been on a kick lately going through my collection of ephemera and animation cels looking for my favorite stuff to pull out and frame. I recently converted our office into the true Branded HQ and archive, and for the...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jun 11, 2012 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture | 11 |
While cleaning up and organizing Branded HQ I found a handful of loose catalog pages that my good buddy HooveR sent me awhile back. They were from the 1987 Wilton Yearbook of Cake Decorating, and featured their line of pop...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jun 4, 2012 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture | 17 |
It’s been awhile since I dipped into my collection of old advertisements I clipped from my collection of 80s era Woman’s Day magazines, so I thought it would be fun to take a look at one of the crazier ads from...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Aug 10, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 13 |
So I recently caught the first couple episodes of the newly relaunched ThunderCats cartoon and it got me in the mood to break out the first season of the original show on DVD and watch a bunch of episodes. Sort of like the...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jul 28, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 5 |
So, picking up from where I left off last week when discussing some of the things that jumped out at me while re-watching the 1st season of the original Transformers cartoon, there were a lot of things that I didn’t...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jul 20, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 7 |
I’ve spent the last five years building a library of cartoons on DVD and sometimes I fear that I get too caught up in acquiring new series and not spending nearly enough time actually sitting down and watching them. ...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jun 7, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture | 11 |
A couple weeks ago I wrote a piece taking a look at the general history of that crazy canned, pasteurized, spray cheese known as Easy Cheese (or Snack Mate circa 1966-1984 or so.) Though I don’t remember when I first...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | May 20, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture | 6 |
A couple weeks ago I was in a rush during the morning routine. For some reason it seemed like I had two hundred things to do before running out the door to go to work, and right when I thought I’d finished...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Apr 18, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture | 0 |
Last week’s post on the DC Comics cookbook insert from the 1981 reminded me that I have another one that’s been sitting on my desk for almost a year. I picked up a huge lot of old Woman’s Day magazines a...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Apr 12, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture | 10 |
Thought I’d take a second today to share this great gift that I received in the mail in response to my TMNT postcard project from a few weeks ago. Mr. & Mrs. McFavorite (of the fun podcast Open Your Toys) sent in...
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