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X-E’s Halloween Season: 2004!

Well guys, it's up. It's friggin' up. This one took a WHILE to put together. X-Entertainment's 2004 Halloween Season has been activated, and it's already bursting with creepy content -- but we're barely getting started! I'll make the intro quick, because I've been up all night on this and I'm ready for whatever creature this night calls itself to be over.

First of all, huge thanks to Brian Jacks for putting together what's gotta be one of the best layouts X-E's ever had -- and it may just be my personal favorite. As you can tell, it's a lot cleaner, sharper and just outright cooler yo than what I'm usually able to piece together from Google Images Searches and scanned Tang advertisements. I fucking love it, to be honest. Make sure to take notice of the new scrollbar on the list o' articles -- that'll keep the page from running a mile long from now on. Yay Ween! If you like what you see, send Brian some love in the comments. He worked really, really hard on this for us.

I'll get into the assorted other features tomorrow -- there's a great one near the bottom, and much much more to come. The 2004 Halloween Countdown has begun, with five days' worth of entries. They're all linked on the main page, but we'll have a master index for those as well come early next week. In case you missed the fun last year, here's how it works: everyday, from now until Halloween, a short spooky article gets published. It can be anything from Halloween candy to decorations to costumes to movies and beyond, infinity. The first batch is a good mix, but I've saved the extra ghoulish stuff for later. We've got chocolate, body parts, death soda, Shockfreakintober, and these weird pills that turn into skeleton-shaped sponges in water. I lack the energy to say anything else, but expect more insanely creepy content this weekend -- lots of it.

PS, I wrote this last night, obviously. We had a small technical issue that kept the site from going up till just now. Enjoy!

Posted by Matt on 09/18/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 110 comments

Aww man I love Crunch bars ha.

Chestnuts roasted by david @ 09/19/2004 2:22 PM

I just have to say wow, Brian, Matt, Halloween….hell yea, best website ever.

Chestnuts roasted by NEO @ 09/19/2004 3:12 PM

Well, you said it would be worth the wait, so I expected something good. But this is SO much more than I expected. Thanks for the Freddy album!

Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 09/19/2004 3:26 PM

it looks great matt. you never cease to out-do yourself.

Chestnuts roasted by mikey @ 09/20/2004 12:08 PM

Something for you to try regarding pitch black mountain dew:
http://www.poopreport.com/Dew/experiment.html

Notice your poo turning green Matt?

Chestnuts roasted by Cobra Soldier #18 @ 09/20/2004 10:09 AM

Son of a brat.

Chestnuts roasted by Sweetie @ 09/20/2004 12:08 PM

Great job Matt. You truly make the Halloween season that much more fun & interesting (I’m f’n serious). Matt, U Da man!

Chestnuts roasted by J-Dog @ 09/20/2004 12:59 PM

Congrats to Brian & Matt on the design, it’s great. Always good to see Halloween back up on X-E, this is when things really start to kick off around here and it doesn’t slow down untill after New Years. I couldn’t make it past the second song on that album so I couldn’t say if anything else was worth listening to on it.

Bring on the horror movies and junk food.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt (#2?) @ 09/20/2004 3:51 PM

Great site!
Concerning the 9/18 Halloween Countdown. I can’t believe you don’t like Butterfingers! They remind me so much of Chick-O-Sticks(click name) they were so great! I loved those! Except instead of coconut it’s chocolate, but it’s the crunchy peanut butter that I liked the most anyways!

Chestnuts roasted by ButterMan @ 09/20/2004 6:59 PM

Click on my name for L8est chiaplot parody… Matt’s fanbase just expanded.

Yeah well, I’d hardly call S’Affricka the Childlike Empire, klash, too much crime, too many invader weed-species and *gasp* no mountain dew. We have pepsi, but most people save money and drink cat pee – tastes the same, lol.

I see some one else, Unstoppable, loved GalaxyQuest! YESSS!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by childlike eminentfreak feckless mole person @ 09/21/2004 2:41 AM

C.E.F.M.P.,

Dude, your link doesn’t work. Unless that’s what you did that on purpose.

Chestnuts roasted by J-Dog @ 09/21/2004 12:53 PM

I’ve been havin’ problems getting to eminentfreak’s page, too. But she has said before she does her postings from university, and their computers can get persnickity. She’s got evil ponies. I think a few glue traps would help that. heh… glue traps…ironic.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/21/2004 5:05 PM

Beware of Mountain Dew Pitch Black! It turns your poop GREEN! http://www.poopreport.com/Dew

Chestnuts roasted by Tydirium @ 09/21/2004 7:00 PM

I bought some Pitch Black. Then I went home and stared at the bottle for a few minutes. After contemplating the meaning of existence I was much tiredand needed a refreshing something to drink. So I opened the Pitch Black and Vin Diesel popped out

Chestnuts roasted by Some Random Guy On The Internet @ 09/21/2004 7:46 PM

Sorry guys. Shoulda been http://www.geocities.com/eminentfreak/horsy2.html

Dammit! I didn’t do it on porpoise, though.

Chestnuts roasted by eternal -- feckless---mole--etc @ 09/22/2004 10:09 AM

Any News on the ever elusive Eighth Chocolate bar?

Chestnuts roasted by MetalRaven @ 09/22/2004 2:08 PM

Wow, great layout. Who is the "dracula" guy next to the Halloween Countdown title? He looks familiar.

Chestnuts roasted by schavera @ 09/22/2004 11:43 PM

The new layout is beautiful, but Pitch Black tastes like carbonated cough syrup. Or carbonated santorum.

Chestnuts roasted by Barfolomew @ 09/23/2004 10:46 PM

Hey Matt-

Did you see they’re relaunching Wacky Packs again?

Chestnuts roasted by Daveyw101 @ 09/24/2004 1:01 AM

what does mountian dew pitch black
taste like rite me and tell me

Chestnuts roasted by adam edward foresi @ 09/25/2004 1:08 PM

brain get a life, it’s just a drink . people tell me suicide would be the solution to your problem you loser.

Chestnuts roasted by blue @ 09/26/2004 7:39 PM

dude, i love grape. grape soda is the best soda. EVER

Chestnuts roasted by blurr @ 09/27/2004 5:24 AM

have you noticed that the pitch black mountain dew fizzes BLUE when you pour it over ice?
And, if you drink enough of it, your poop comes out green. whats that about?

Chestnuts roasted by klwnzilla @ 09/27/2004 6:29 PM

Classic New York TV RULES! Loved your nod to WPIX’s past…wonder if there are any chances we can see more articles in the future, from not only vintage WPIX (aka 11 Alive back in the day), but also from NY’s other Big Three members, WNEW/WNYW-5 and (W)WOR-9?

Do you remember…
TV-PIX (Channel 11 call-in video game where you controlled the action by yelling "PIX!")?
WOR’s holiday montage to the tune of Sleigh Ride?
The "mysterious" (and weird to me as a kid) WOR Head logo which was used for I think some promotional events for the station? Would that I could see that one again! I remember seeing it not only on TV, but also on tote bags and baseball caps.
Channel 5′s "Forty Years of Fine Tuning" campaign?
"Your choice is 5"?
The Magic Garden?
D.J. Kat?

And the list goes on and on. For the time being, let me also suggest the following two Yahoo! groups:

Vintage NYC TV: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vintagenyctv

Channel 5 Fans:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/channel5fan

Chestnuts roasted by James Fabiano @ 09/28/2004 4:36 PM

Classic New York TV RULES! Loved your nod to WPIX’s past…wonder if there are any chances we can see more articles in the future, from not only vintage WPIX (aka 11 Alive back in the day), but also from NY’s other Big Three members, WNEW/WNYW-5 and (W)WOR-9?

Do you remember…
TV-PIX (Channel 11 call-in video game where you controlled the action by yelling "PIX!")?
WOR’s holiday montage to the tune of Sleigh Ride?
The "mysterious" (and weird to me as a kid) WOR Head logo which was used for I think some promotional events for the station? Would that I could see that one again! I remember seeing it not only on TV, but also on tote bags and baseball caps.
Channel 5′s "Forty Years of Fine Tuning" campaign?
"Your choice is 5"?
The Magic Garden?
D.J. Kat?

And the list goes on and on. For the time being, let me also suggest the following two Yahoo! groups:

Vintage NYC TV: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vintagenyctv

Channel 5 Fans:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/channel5fan

Chestnuts roasted by James Fabiano @ 09/28/2004 4:37 PM

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