So, I gotta be honest with you. I didn’t really plan out much of a post for today.

I know that I promise you fresh content every day, and that we have regular features here in this blog and everything…but yesterday was my birthday.  I had a wonderful birthday. Mel took the day off and we just ran about and did fun stuff and overindulged in pizza and cake and ice cream. Over three hundred people sent me birthday wishes on social media. I felt loved, appreciated and grateful for my life.

And lazy…I also felt lazy. Aside from sharing links to yesterday’s post here in the blog, I didn’t do anything resembling work. I took the day off.

I’m old. I’m allowed to do that.

But I don’t want to cheat my readers, and I actually have more stuff planned for PopCult than I usually do. So you’re getting this post today.

You see, two weeks from today marks the 20th anniversary of PopCult.  To mark the occasion, the next two weeks will see the return of The PopCult Toybox and The PopCult Bookshelf, plus several photo essays from my recent travels. As we get closer to the big day you can also expect some retrospectives of past posts here, plus some tie-ins with our internet radio station, The AIR.

Tomorrow you can expect a huge photo essay of the toys for sale at The Kentuckiana GI Joe Toy Expo, and Sunday we’ll bring you the raw footage that we shot, so you can see everything without the quick edits and jump cuts.

But for now, it’s past noon and I’m sitting here writing this post while drinking Zero Sugar Ale 8 and eating macadamia nuts.

And I figure you guys at least deserve some photos to let you know part of what you can expect in the next two weeks.

I still have more photos to share from WonderFest, over two months ago.

You can also expect a quick look at some of the new exhibits at The Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum.

We finally visited The American Sign Museum in Cinncinnati. Look for photos the week after next.

While in Cincy, we encourntered a life-sized reproduction of part of the first Barbie Dream House.

That Barbie exhibit was downstairs at The Hall of Justice, seen here disguised as a mild-mannered Train Station/Museum

You can also expect photos from The Lucky Cat Museum

If you’re good, you might get to see more of the adventures of Traveling Squidward…something Mel and I do to amuse our friend, Pixie, in Liverpool.

That’s just a preview of what you can expect in PopCult.

So you can get all excited now while I start work on tomorrow’s PopCulteer.