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 Space Madness Coloring Book as a pay-what-you-want download. Enjoy 20 pages

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

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 question the need for human friends when you’ve got R.O.B. the Robotic Operatin

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,

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

T-shirts are a fine way to express yourself or profess your love for something. They are like bumper stickers for the torso, stating “hey, I like and/or believe in this thing.” They can help people find members of their own tribe. They can attempt to signal status, opinion

In most situations, I tend to imagine the worst case scenario. This delightful character trait is a bit of behavior I learned from my father, a catastrophist whose glass is perpetually half-empty. My talent for negative thinking has been honed to a fine art when it comes to medical or

Aside from the presence of the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi, most of the unrest in the Star Wars universe is generally attributed to the 1997 re-release of the altered versions of the original trilogy, the subsequent revisions made to the original trilogy, and the release of the “prequ

Having just returned from the arcade with his father, Aaron bounded up the flight of stairs that separated our apartments breathless and eager to report on the newest game cabinet on the arcade floor: “You’re this yellow mouth guy in a maze and you have to eat all these pellets and th

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