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Monster Cereals & A Farewell To Halloween!

Well, it's finally over. Halloween is here, soon it'll be gone, and with it, we bid farewell to the X-E Halloween Countdown until next year. My brain says THANK GOD, but my heart yearns for more rubber bats and bloody wonder. This will all be forgotten in a week when I see Holiday Fruity Pebbles at Waldbaum's, I'm sure. Speaking of something similar, the final entry on the Countdown takes a look at a decades-standing Halloween favorite, The General Mills Monster Cereals. I found a megabox containing all three varieties -- Count Chocula, Franken Berry & Boo Berry -- and it's made Halloween actually feel like Halloween. A much needed boost, since it's like 200 degrees outside and the kids next door are trying to set up an inflatable pool.

Had fun with the trick-or-treaters today. We gathered up all of the small toys and candy I intended to write about, packed 'em in Halloween-themed Ziploc bags and continued the tradition of being the best loot-givers of the block, sure to be adored by every six-year-old in the neighborhood, at least until 9 PM or so. Oh, of the many things I didn't have a chance to cover this season, I really didn't want to let this one slide. Here's a gallery of pics I took at our wonderful local mall's Halloween store, which by now is probably selling reindeer that dance when you clap:




(click pics to enlarge)

Thanks for reading all month-and-a-half. Click "more" to see the final entries in the Halloween Art Expo, and check out the previous posts for more installments. Oh, and do me a favor -- out of sheer megalomaniacal curiosity, I'd like for you to tell me which three entries on the Countdown were your personal favorites this year, in the comments. Don't have to list reasons or anything. Hope everyone had a great Halloween! Think I'll hop in the coffin now...

Ubu Rex lines his paper with madness...

Maramuray is a visionary of the most arguable kind...

Underdawg owes me ten bucks...

Dumpweed probably committed suicide soon after e-mailing this...

T. Walter's pride is in his stomach...

James Smith doesn't believe in God...

B-Dawg had the right idea...

Ferange perpetuates anorexia...

F.O.S. ends the Art Expo properly. With cats...

Happy H, all.

Posted by Matt on 10/31/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 141 comments
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Hhhmmm I really like the costume series…..The candy articles were great too.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessie @ 10/31/2004 7:22 PM

Big ups for making it all the way through the countdown Matt. Your efforts are much appreciated. Fav articles probably were the ghost pumpkin carving contest, and one of the fake severed body parts tomes (not like that narroes it down much).

Peace out.

Chestnuts roasted by Dane @ 10/31/2004 7:24 PM

Congrats on making it through…and Happy Halloween, Matt. :¬)

I haven’t checked the blog in a while. Have there been any gratuitous Bitner references lately? We really need those to pop up occasionally…

Chestnuts roasted by The ORIGINAL Paul @ 10/31/2004 7:30 PM

Can’t believe it’s over :(

Chestnuts roasted by The Worst Ghost Ever @ 10/31/2004 7:33 PM

Well done, this is 3 straight countdowns that you’ve managed to get through, ah I’m so proud, and I’ll continue to revel in Halloween glory cause now its time to buy all the discounted candy at Wegmans!

Chestnuts roasted by ANdrew @ 10/31/2004 7:37 PM

Yay, I had the right idea! I hope that’s good.

Anyway, my 3 favorite countdown entries are the 3 Ghost With The Most cartoons…followed closely by the one where you dressed up your cat as dracula…

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 10/31/2004 7:37 PM

The Countdown is over… Now it is time for more Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade reviews!

Chestnuts roasted by bob genghis khan @ 10/31/2004 7:49 PM

Dammit. I just finished making my entry. Oh well, I’ll give you guys a link to it as soon as I can get it uploaded somewhere. And I’ll still e-mail you a copy, Matt.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 10/31/2004 7:49 PM

Dammit. I just finished making my entry. Oh well, I’ll give you guys a link to it as soon as I can get it uploaded somewhere. And I’ll still e-mail you a copy, Matt.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 10/31/2004 7:50 PM

Okay, here’s my late entry:

http://www.geocities.com/mister_nes/mariohalloween.jpg">It’s stupid, but I like it.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 10/31/2004 8:03 PM

When Halloween ends, it feels as if a part of me dies.

I don’t know about anyone else, but Halloween sucked this year. I recently moved to Pennsylvania, and the private community I reside in established a curfew for trick-or-treating: children could only go out with an adult or guardian or in groups between the hours of 5:00 PM and 8:00 PM. What the fuck? I remember when I was a wee lad that I would stay out the entire day hunting for candy and the occasional dime. The community I live in is pretty big, around 50 square miles or so, and I happen to live on the last street in the community, so you know what that means…not a single trick-or-treater. Nothing. Nadda. Zilch. To make the situation even worse, my family is like the fourth family that lives this far back in the development, so it’s not like I could’ve walked around the block to view everyone’s decorations…they weren’t any fucking decorations! This has to be the worst Halloween in a long, long time. It’s almost as bad as the Halloween where I ate the pretzels and got the shits, but somehow that still managed to be more enjoyable than today.

I was so looking forward to answer the door in my "Wack-o Jack-o" mask, but nope, not this year. Maybe next year, maybe. At least I am off from work tomorrow so I can still enjoy a nice Friday the 13th and Halloween marathon with my bootleg DVD set I imported from Hong Kong.

Chestnuts roasted by charliecucumber @ 10/31/2004 8:11 PM

Hi Matt, many thanks for the great Hallowe’en countdown.
Only 300 odd days untill we can all relive the joys of a countdown containing the most horrific and ghoulish treats known to man.
thanks a lot for the time and effort.

Chestnuts roasted by Mark @ 10/31/2004 8:13 PM

Damn, I loved the entry where you dressed your cat up in the cape. I wish I could make the entire entry as my desktop, but it’s too big, and I don’t think people will get the joke if they have to scroll down. :-(

I liked the contact lens entry, too. It was cool seeing how different someone can look w/ freaky eyeballs.

Ooh, and Marcus the Carcass. He was one cool mofo.

Honorable mention for the 3-D bloody words. Cool b/c of how realistic they were, and b/c I actually saw them in a store around here and got to give X-E a shoutout.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 10/31/2004 8:22 PM

It’s over Matt! I’m sure your brain will be happy! :)
Thanks for the laughs during this year’s countdown. I will miss the constant updates, but I have something to look forward to next year… it’s only 365 days right???

Chestnuts roasted by Croww @ 10/31/2004 8:36 PM

Charliecucumber- I feel your pain, I just moved to PA (for college reasons) from New York in August, and this state ain’t so great =( but at least the neighborhood that is next to my school DOES fill everything up w/ decorations, although nothing too creative.

Chestnuts roasted by ANdrew @ 10/31/2004 8:50 PM

Another Halloween countdown ends…good job Matt. But it’s only about a month until the XE advent calendar.

Chestnuts roasted by Skroob @ 10/31/2004 9:12 PM

Once again, I’ve forgotten to put "The REAL Nate" on my posts. All posts on this blog are actually by me.

And now, I am going to read the article.

Chestnuts roasted by The REAL Nate @ 10/31/2004 9:14 PM

The whole countdown was pretty great, give a special shout out to the grim rapper, but the best three were as follows.

The Ghost cartoons, the slasher for kids costumes, the faces of Jason retrospective.

Chestnuts roasted by GreyWeirdo @ 10/31/2004 9:15 PM

My top three would have to be:

many faces of jason (informative)
ghost with the most II (funny)
Growing Pains (nostalgic)

The X-E triumvirate of emotions. Coming in a close fourth and fifth:

contact lenses
halloween atari game

The only entry I took any issue with was the Nestle’s candy bags article. Crunch bars most certainly ARE that good.

A great effort as always, Matt!

Chestnuts roasted by Ryan @ 10/31/2004 9:16 PM

happy halloween matt and all!
favorite articles…
halloween costumes 4 kids, the fruit snacks article, and the marshmallow peeps.

thank you for making my halloween actually feel like halloween.

Chestnuts roasted by candice @ 10/31/2004 9:20 PM

I’m going to miss the ghosts :(

Chestnuts roasted by Beta-Theta @ 10/31/2004 9:34 PM

This is Halloween, This is Halloween, Halloween, Halloween (music in background.

Chestnuts roasted by Beta-Theta @ 10/31/2004 9:36 PM

Those look like amazing loot bags. In fact they’re the best I think I’ve ever seen. We don’t get many treaters, in fact all I’ve had so far has been a set of teens wearing outfits that barely qualified as costumes.
My fav entries:
Introducing, The Grim Rapper!
Emeril’s Halloween Cooking Special!
The Many Faces of Jason Voorhees!

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/31/2004 9:45 PM

Whoa, it hit me, we’ll never see the ghosts ever again *sniff sniff*

Chestnuts roasted by ANdrew @ 10/31/2004 9:52 PM

1. the many faces of jason
2. the many faces of jason
3. the many faces of jason

Chestnuts roasted by niceass @ 10/31/2004 10:00 PM

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