A general discussion of collecting cool things, such as vintage and modern toys, comic books, ephemera.
This week, the League asked what is the sweetest ride cruising the streets of pop culture. For me, this was a no-brainer. The sweetest ride in any movie is Marion Cobretti’s custom 1950 Mercury Monterey from the 1986 movie, Cobra. “You’re the disease, and I’m the cure.” When I stayed home from school with the [...]
The last few weeks have really made the League members work for their wages, so this week’s challenge is a bit of a softball. Some League members may have already answered this week’s post in the previous assignment where we chose a piece of Hollywood movie memorabilia, but this time around, I am handicapping everyone [...]
“What would you do if I sang out of tune…” What a great week for the League! We took a nostalgic, often painful, look back at the last official year of our childhood. We covered the 80′s pretty well, and even touched on the early 90′s… 1982: Dex at AEIOU and Sometimes Why, and Lefty [...]
Do you smell that? Yep, it’s the smell of wet cardboard, and moth-eaten sweaters–yard sale season has finally returned! If you’re new to Cool & Collected, I should warn you that the next few months are likely to be filled with posts like this one, where I show off the treasures I find at the [...]
Pardon the interruption, but this post will stray a bit from being entirely pop-culture oriented. You have been warned. When I was 12, my family was stationed in Seoul, South Korea. We lived in a small apartment in government housing, 10 miles or so from the main military base. We were pretty much living with [...]
If you ask me, the best year of the 80′s hit when I was 12 years old. The year: 1984. Just look at some of the movies that were released that year: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Gremlins Karate Kid Footloose Ghostbusters Red Dawn Terminator (“I’ll be back.”) Nightmare on Elm Street Beverly [...]
It’s finally here! The Cool & Collected e-newsletter will go out on Mondays and will highlight some recent articles that appeared on the site. It’s no secret that I am surrounded by teetering piles of pop culture and the newsletter will be a great way for me to host contests and giveaways. In fact, anyone who subscribes [...]
Consider this a bonus book report, because you get not one, but TWO books reviewed, all for the low, low price of just your time. First up, is Tim Lebbon’s The Cabin in the Woods: The Official Movie Novelization, based on Josh Whedon’s and Drew Goddard’s screenplay. I was looking forward to reading this since there [...]
Illustrator-extraordinaire, Tom Whalen, is a busy guy! It seems like every day, a new piece of his work zooms around the interwebs. Today’s dose of Mr. Whalen comes to us from Dark Hall Mansion, which strikes gold (er, yellow) again with their latest release of art prints, this time celebrating the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine. This is first [...]
The final posters in Mondo’s Avengers series were revealed today, and the Avengers have officially assembled. While each of these posters is fantastic in its own right, I really wish Mondo would have gone with one artist for the series. It would have been great to see a series similar to Olly Moss’ or Tyler [...]
