Pop Culture



Pinterest: taking your childhood collections online

Reinventing the simple scrapbook We’re pleased as punch to find that we’ve reached 2000 followers on Pinterest. Pinning collections and boards on Pinterest is a lot of fun, and when you find people to share it with who enjoy it as much as you, it just makes the fun a...

Happy New Year

C’mon 2015, we’re ready for you! Looking back on the year gives us a lot to be thankful for – 2014 was pretty good to us at Curio & Co. We were so happy to be able to bring you so many pop culture classics this year – especially our...

Merry Christmas from Curio & Co.

There’s no reason to pout – Santa Claus is coming to town! The tree is trimmed. The stockings are up. We’ve even put out some milk and cookies (the ones we haven’t eaten, anyway). All we need now is the Big Guy. It’s amazing how Santa manages to get all...

It’s still story time

Who says that only kids get to have stories read to them? I used to think that audio books were only for blind people or truck drivers. Once you’d graduated to reading on your own, I thought, story time was over. I’m so glad I finally saw – well, heard...

Galactic Time

Meeting with a species from another planet starts to get tricky when it’s time to synchronize your watches. The dates in Spaceman Jax’s world are complicated and unwieldy. Spaceman Jax was born in 6324 1/2, Tarloc was born in 6298 3/5 and he started his first company in 6304 1/9…...

Spaceman Jax today

What would the Spaceman Jax character be like done by a studio today? If Spaceman Jax and the Galactic Adventures were back on TV today, I’d love to see a really faithful adaptation. Sure, they’d need to update the animation, and I could see Jax rendered in CG with flashy...

Happy Halloween

We wanted to take five and wish you all happy trick or treating a very scary Halloween. – BOO! 

Don’t change that channel

Everything comes to a halt for a TV marathon When I was a kid TV marathons were an annual event. Every year some TV station would show a day’s worth of Elvis movies on his birthday, monster movies in the lead up to Halloween, and all the Rankin and Bass...

Summertime Treats: Corn Dogs

When you’re ready to grab life by the handle. I’m not really sure why so many treats we enjoy in the summer are so greasy – hamburgers on the grill, funnel cake, chili cheese fries at the ballgame. You’d think that with the hot temperatures summer days can bring, we’d...

Summer Cinema: Jaws, 1975

Maybe skip the water altogether this weekend. There’s nothing worse than working while everyone else is away on vacation. Not only are you picking up the slack for your coworkers, but some have the nerve to send those “Wish you were here” postcards back to the office just to rub...

Summertime Treats: Cotton Candy

Nostalgia at its stickiest. Cotton Candy is a delightful summertime treat, and one that seems to sum up a lot of summer experiences. From a distance, it’s big and bold and commands a lot of attention – the same way summer vacations loom large in our anticipation and are the...

Where, exactly, is Spaceman Jax?

Is Spaceman Jax like Star Wars – set in a galaxy far, far away? Over sixty years have passed since Spaceman Jax and the Galactic Adventures first premiered on TV (and then later, comics) and with each year that passes it’s always interesting to see how close we’ve come to...