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Smoke Up Artoo!
In the lean days before home video releases of the Star Wars films, television appearances by the folks from the galaxy far, far away were pure magic for me. Having missed the Star Wars Holiday special...
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Shark’s in the Water, Our Shark
When channel surfing, Jaws is one of those movies that always knocks me off my surfboard. No matter how far into the movie it is, I’ll stop and watch it to the end. I can’t say how many times I’ve seen...
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Being Jacob Marley
Stave One When I was about five or six, I found myself in handcuffs on the day after Christmas. I blame the ghost of Jacob Marley. After big holiday gatherings with my mom’s side of the family at my...
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Of Cartoon Mice and Men…and Cats
My household was late to the cable television game, so in the late 1970s and early 80s I took what I could get cartoon-wise. While waiting for some of my favorites, like Looney Toons, Scooby-Doo or the...
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Time Travel Addict
Sometimes, as I fade off to sleep, I revisit settings from my childhood. I’m able to conjure up places where I’ve lived with such clarity that it almost feels like I’ve traveled back in time. I walk...
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Fill it to the Rim: The Brim Recollection
American media is riddled with sales pitches that promise immediately gratifying health, happiness, and satisfaction. As intended, this kind of manipulation certainly worked on my malleable child...
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Uh-Oh, SpaghettiOs!
It’s no secret that I’m fond of revisiting my past. Recently, this temporal wanderlust was prompted by my taste buds. A sudden craving for one particular childhood foodstuff lured me to an aisle of my...
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Boxes Full of Halloween
Halloween came in a box when I was growing up. Or at least, most of my Halloween costumes did. The moment the first leaf rusted on the branch, I’d beg my parents to take me to K-Mart, Bradlees, or...
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Christmastime is Tough in Frogtown Hollow
Like most kids of my generation, I was a devout follower of the teachings of Jim Henson. As it is was for most, it started with Sesame Street and shifted to The Muppet Show when I became old enough to...
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The Important Toy Photography of Danny Neumann
If it weren’t for Instagram I might be living alone in a rented storage locker on the outskirts of town among piles of vintage action figures procured from eBay. Allow me to clarify. I spend a...
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Twiki is Not Afraid of Captain Kirk
A number of circumstances have kept me from posting for a little over a year, and boy do I miss it. One of the things that has kept me busy lately is my toy art. Since my debut at C2E2 2015, I’ve been...
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Podcast Episode 0: Halloween Memories
Here it is, the very first episode of the Junk Fed podcast. Episode 0! Sure to be a collectible. As far as nostalgia goes, what better place to start than Halloween. On this inaugural episode of the...
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Podcast Episode 1: From Scaredy-Cat to Horror Hound
More audio Halloweenery! We’re joined by Joey Gallimore, aka Dr. Jose, of cameraviscera.com, to dig up our childhood memories of being afraid of the dark. We talk about things that scared us on...
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Podcast Episode 2: Toys as Transitional Objects
In childhood development, transitional objects provide comfort in difficult or unique situations. We’re joined by Stacey Rader, of Adventures of a Geeky Vixen, to discuss some of the toys that helped...
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Podcast Episode 5: Christmassy Christmas Christmasses
On this eggnog-flavored episode, I’m joined by one of my favorite artists, the brilliant and prolific Alex Pardee. We share some of our favorite Christmas memories, including Santa’s toy counterfeiting...
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Podcast Episode 6: Course Correction with Jen Stephens
I’m joined by Jen Stephens, of the bands The Vomit Punx and East Coast Panic, to discuss moments in our lives that changed us fundamentally and briefly ponder the paths that might have been. We...
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Podcast Episode 7: Ronald Reagan Is Gonna Get Us All Killed
Tyler Ham returns to discuss growing up during the Reagan Era Cold War, and how it affected us as children. Tyler categorizes classic atomic age sci-fi movies, offering historical perspective from the...
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Podcast Episode 8: Go to Your Room!
Shawn Robare of Branded in the 80s and the Cult Film Club podcast joins me to discuss a topic inspired by Shawn’s own Awesome 80s Bedrooms series, the inner sanctum of our childhood bedrooms. For...
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Ghost Train to McDonald’s
My father died in March and my uncle died in April. Both deaths were sudden, but not entirely surprising. My father and uncle lived, respectively, on the top two floors of a three-family house in an...
View ArticleSpace Madness Coloring Book Digital Download
COVID-19 has most of the world cooped up in quarantine (if you aren’t, you should be), and going a bit stir-crazy. To help pass the time, I thought I’d offer up this digital version of my sold-out...
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