ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-Five

In April of 2008, I’d come to an impasse on my screenplay and was regarding even the words I’d written on my grocery list as being poorly formed. I was still logging keystrokes on the computer daily, but a significant number of them were going to buying toys on eBay. Then fate intervened in [...]

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Jon Burgerman Has a Posse

You know that slice of trivia about how Usher finds it soothing to sort his M&Ms by color before a show? Yeah? Really? You do? Stay with me, I’m going to loop back to that. Toward the beginning of my time at ToyCyte, I was writing about Jon Burgerman A LOT. A toy here, a [...]

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Look Mom, I’m on Amazon!

And so are a bunch of you, too. Laura McMullan interviewed me for Amazon’s new toy blog, Toy Whimsy, which focuses on toy culture for the toddler to teen set. Of course, where there are kids, there are (hopefully) parents, and as such, the need for news from the adult toy world (contain yourself Kylo76) [...]

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