Last October, my dear friend Dena Rosenberg came over to the Junk Fed laboratory, asked me a bunch of questions, and filmed my responses. I found it strange at the time, but it turns out she was putting together a short documentary on the Junk Fed origin story. Seriously though, it wa
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 us through some tricky times growing up and into adulthood. We laugh,
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 significant amount of time looking at photos of vintage action figures on the internet
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 Zayre so I could pick though the stacks of boxed Halloween costumes. This was very impor
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 from room to room with meticulous recall: the wood paneling in the k
The promotional Star Wars glasses offered by Burger King from 1977 to 1983 have always been a part of my collection in some varying configuration, albeit in an incomplete state. As a child, I collected a number of them as they were released and had since lost them to breakage, wear. T