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Hey, remember me? Guy with the site and stuff? Sorry I've been so scarce -- like I've said too many times before, things have changed a lot on this end over the past year, but I'll do what I can to keep things going here. Just know that at no point do I "forget" about X-E -- it's just a matter of...oh blah blah blah. You know the drill by now.

I am working on a new article, though. It's one of those special-to-me-but-maybe-not-to-you thingies. We'll see. I'm setting it all up tonight, and hopefully, the gods will smile upon me with fast commutes this week, leaving time to put it together during the evenings. Jesus Christ I'm boring.

In lieu of something new, here's a bunch of something old. If you're somewhat new to the site and haven't figured out how to waddle through the fifty years worth of articles buried deep within the site, here's a few articles that I kinda like:

Supergirl Movie Review: It's odd that this flick hasn't achieved more of a cult status. Though not a critical or box office smash or even a very good movie, it's super/pun harmless and loads of fun. I'm a sucker for Helen Slater.

Within the Woods Movie Review: This isn't a particularly enthralling article or anything, but I'm figuring there's plenty of Evil Dead fans in the house who haven't heard the scoop on the so-called "prequel" -- the messy prototype film Raimi and Campbell put together to sell the suits on the idea. Check it out.

Hulk Smash Something: You've probably noticed that I like to archive all of the weird food and toy promotions that come out. The reason is simple: when I want to do an article on something like, let's say, Ninja Turtle Pies, I'm faced with the unfortunate fact that there's just nothing out there on the stuff. Bad sentence, but you get the drift. I live for trivial things, but trivial things rarely last long. I hate that. So, in this article, a Hulk pinata goes apeshit over all of the many Hulk-related movie promo tie-ins that were then littering the grocery stores. It's goofy, but I'm proud to have done my part to make sure the handful of people who'll think of that stuff years from now will have a place to see it again.

Return of the Jedi Toys: I don't talk much about Star Wars stuff on the site these days, I guess partly because I know I've been "outfanned" in that department -- there are people more into the lore running their own sites, or at least, people who've kept up with it a heck of a lot better than me. That said, there wouldn't be an X-E if I didn't love Star Wars so much. I can't limit the "why" in that to a paragraph, so I'll just let you read about a bunch of vintage toys from the ROTJ era and hope you get the same feelings from it. It's not about the Speeder Bike toy being cool. It's about the Speeder Bike toy reminding me about how I used to spend the afternoons on the side of our house, by a pile of tan rocks, ramming it over and over again into that big cylindrical air conditioner thingamajig while collecting ladybugs and neat red leaves.

That's all for now. Damn, I really gotta get rid of the Christmas design, eh?

Okay, survey: tell us what you won't eat, under any circumstances. I'll start with my arch nemesis -- mayonnaise. I can't even eat across from someone with mayo on their plate.

Posted by Matt on 01/09/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 137 comments

I don’t like casseroles of any kind.
Yesterday was Mrs. Manimal’s due date. Nothing. Nothing on the horizon today either. That’s the way first baby’s go I guess.

Chestnuts roasted by manimal789 @ 01/11/2005 7:12 PM

P.S. I like mayonaise but I can see where a lot of people wouldn’t. Same goes for ketchup and human flesh.

Chestnuts roasted by manimal789 @ 01/11/2005 7:13 PM

Thanks everyone! I’m so excited! I’m not very far along, and havent even told any friends or family yet, so I felt good to at least tell total strangers!

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 01/11/2005 8:39 PM

There are no strangers on the X-E Blog, only family.

Post once and you are like that cousin that is in the mental hospital that nobody talks about.

Post twice and you are like that weird uncle you only see at Thanksgiving and funerals.

Post three times you are like a zany aunt.

Post four times and you are like an immediate member of the family.

Something like that.

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 01/11/2005 10:35 PM

Eggs are without a doubt the most gross thing known to man. Though every once in a while I’ll have a change of heart and try to eat one (usually buried in cheese) and then regret what I just did and gag. Mushrooms? I like mushrooms myself ^^;

Congrats to everyone who’s expecting and all, but man, I didn’t even realize I was still bitter over my miscarriage. Oh well, ces la vie

Chestnuts roasted by occasional lurker @ 01/12/2005 12:36 PM

Congrats and godspeed, manimal789. Of course we’ll expect you to desert your friends, family and wife to rush over and let us know when the little bundle arrives.
I recently read that California rolls are MADE WITH MAYONNAISE and my world got flipped turned upside down. I still refuse to believe it. Excessive condiments of any kind gross me out, even good old ketchup. I loved bad Chinese food as a kid but I guess I had too much of it since I’ve now developed a pretty severe allergy to MSG. So I can’t eat that under any circumstances cause of the whole anaphylactic puff-up-like-a-blowfish affect.
A couple of fav articles:
http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0842/">Tales From the Darkside: The Movie
http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0677/">Rainbow Brite’s San Diego Zoo Adventure
http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/threeyearparty/">X-Entertainment’s Three Year Anniversary. This is probably my favorite article ever, even though it’s not really the usual fare. Still gets me with the warm fuzzies, in addition to having one the the most complete article archives on the site.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/12/2005 12:55 PM

I dont like tomatoes, they’re icky. I’ve tried ‘em in salads on hoagies, in "cherry" form and by themselves…the seeds/flavor/texture…I’ve had fruit, and *that* my friends, that is no fruit. Then there’s mushrooms – they taste like what a basement should taste like. Fish, cuz it stares at me(‘cept tuna, I can eat tuna–with mayonaisse by-the-by people, i dig mayo–i think because it’s in a can). Peppers and onions cuz…eww. And mangos. Mango’s make me gag. I think because they’re squishy/slimey and I expected it to be firmer the 1st time I tried it, so to this day(some 10 years later) the smell of mango makes me gag. Ugh, thinking about it makes me gag.

Chestnuts roasted by Yorissa @ 01/12/2005 1:08 AM

I CANNOT believe you didnt update this site yet…get the ball rolling man…..

Chestnuts roasted by A Dude @ 01/12/2005 1:12 AM

I like sauerkraut, I like mayo. What I don’t like is cauliflower and carrots, and mushrooms. Well, the only mushrooms I like are the blue ones.

And while we are linking:

http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/418.html
It makes me feel like dolphins are like, in my bloodstream, swimming around!

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 01/12/2005 3:05 AM

Wait… I’m sick for eating cottage cheese but you people are eating babies? Weirdos.

An update, I tried the damn He Man chewing gum. It was a lot better than eating babies. Sickos.

http://www.mystiesplace.com/articles/011105_eternia/011105.html

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/12/2005 5:25 AM

I won’t willingly eat peas. But every once in a while peas use their keen trickery skills to hide in a meal where I wouldn’t expect their presence. Then they latch onto my spoon and attack my mouth. Peas are evil like that.

Of course I dislike the taste of chick peas more but find them less offensive than the average green pea because they are innocent beings that stick mainly to the salad plate.

Chestnuts roasted by Law Girl @ 01/12/2005 9:43 AM

http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/373.html

The Nads article above was CLASSIC! Pure GENIUS!

Chestnuts roasted by J-Dog @ 01/12/2005 10:36 AM

NADS article has been double linked. I think we have a winner.

Oh, but the Corey Haim Diary article… that’s a tough one. Doesn’t he play tennis or wrestle or some gawd-awful thing? Wasn’t there an article w/ the Ebay postings of Haim’s rotten teeth being sold, along w/ clippings of his hair and whatnot? Oh, the horror…

That sucks that you may not get an external u/s, Erik. If the baby is in the wrong position to see it’s gender, there’s not muc manipulating they can do to get a better angle.

manimal, here is a link on how to naturally induce labor. Don’t be scared. I can name two things here that worked for me (but I won’t post them here, that’s TMI to the nth degree). Email me if you want. Here is the link: http://www.drspock.com/article/0,1510,5329,00.html

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 01/12/2005 10:48 AM

I would suggest getting an R. Lee Ermy-type to order the kid out, but all the yelling might make it dig in deeper. "Eeek! I ain’t goin’ out there! It’s too noisy!" In the meantime, watch something real funny, like Monty Python, or Marx Bros., ’cause I hear a good laugh does wonders for labor. Maybe read some past threads in the X-E’rchives. I know somebody has to have said something off-the-wall enough to make the kid pop out.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/12/2005 11:46 AM

Oh, yeah, my cousin Brenda got her labor going by going big ball bowling (no, that’s not a double intendre). She said the movement, carrying the heavy balls and all of that floor vibration got her contracting. hey, it could work, right?

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 01/12/2005 11:56 AM

"HEY, KID! C’MON OUT! WE GOT COOKIES!"

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/12/2005 1:12 PM

i HATE cottage cheese. love sushi, mayo, sourkraut, etc.
but cottage cheese and anything grape flavored except for the the actual fruit.

ooo, have you guys heard of ‘blue mountain oysters’? i definetly could not eat those.

they’re deep fried bull testicles for those of you not familiar with them, although i have been told they are really good. blargh

Chestnuts roasted by ceridwens_descent @ 01/12/2005 2:01 PM

PLEASE HELP ME!! ANYONE KNOW WHAT PRETZEL MIDGEE IS???!!! I had it as an ingredient in a bag of keystone party mix I recently obtained from a vending machine. Needless to say it made me ill. The bag says that the contents are, among other things, Pretzel sticks and midgee. WTF is midgee??

Thanks.

Chestnuts roasted by Pedro @ 01/12/2005 2:06 PM

Either a itty bitty Tootsie Roll or a tiny pretzel. Get another bag, then seperate out the individual components and compare them to the info on the bag. When it comes to pretzels, the toy breeds are always a crowd pleaser.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/12/2005 2:43 PM

"Okay, survey: tell us what you won’t eat, under any circumstances."

Most types of fish. D: Fish disgust me so much it’s not even funny.

Chestnuts roasted by Komichi @ 01/12/2005 2:50 PM

Pedro –

No idea what "midgee" is (it’s not in the dictionary), but a midge is "Any of various gnatlike flies of the family Chironomidae, found worldwide and frequently occurring in swarms near ponds and lakes."

Yuck. I certainly hope that wasn’t the word they used.

Chestnuts roasted by Komichi @ 01/12/2005 2:53 PM

Thanks Kingklash. I did just that and figured out that the midgee are, in fact, the little nonstick-shaped pretzels (i.e., the traditional knot-shaped pretzels). Seems a bit pejorative and non-P.C. to call them midgee, no? Sounds too much like "midget."

I looked up midget and midgee is not the correct pluralization of midget. (think nucleus and nuclei; or cactus and cacti). Very odd name indeed.

As an annoying post-script, now everytime my friends and I refer to any party mix of any kind whatsoever, we call it "midgee;" thereby rehashing this conundrum over and over again.

Chestnuts roasted by Pedro @ 01/12/2005 2:56 PM

Midgii? Kinda like several Elvises is Elvii.

Chestnuts roasted by the plural of kingklash is kingsklash @ 01/12/2005 3:52 PM

Fish all the way. Man I hate fish. I can’t sit in the same room with someone eating fish. Gah.

Chestnuts roasted by LadyYate-xel @ 01/12/2005 4:57 PM

Hulk hates midgets,well then I see a big lawsuit from the Lolipop guild in his near future.

Ketchup IS good but gets not nearly as much love nowadays…DAMN YOU DIPPING SAUCE!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Adam @ 01/12/2005 8:37 PM

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