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X-Entertainment in Stuff Magazine!

Working feverishly on many things at the moment, but wanted to mention X-E's latest journey off the Internet. In the July issue of Stuff Magazine, check out the "Hit List" section for a nice little blurb about my Worst Game Room Ever article.

There's a mildly interesting story attached to this. The magazine had contacted me months ago to be included, but the images in the article were too shoddy after what I did to 'em to use in print. I didn't have the originals. Fearing that I'd lose my shot to have 1/10th of one page in one issue of one magazine dedicated to something I wrote a year ago, I offered to recreate the picture they were after, wrongly assuming I had a volley of Ms. Pac-Man machines at my disposal. I didn't. The only one I had access to was at an editing facility we use at work, so one day, I crept out for an hour, took the subway downtown, blasted into the facility with a digital camera, pleaded my case, took very odd pictures of their Ms. Pac-Man machine and ran back to the office with only minutes to spare before a pretty critical meeting, which I sat through sweating profusely. Thanks, Stuff Mag!

Posted by Matt on 05/28/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 58 comments

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Kingklash
trajeal
Manimal
muppetbaby
Mr. T
phunqsauce
R.D. Reynolds

Not sure if I belong though. :(

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 05/29/2005 2:25 PM

I think the $64,000 question is: did the Atlantic City Quality Inn make renovations or, at least, repairs to the game room after being so thoroughly embarassed by that article? I don’t know what the situation with Quality Inns is, whether each individual hotel is corporately-owned or a franchise, but, either way, there’s someone in charge of that particular location, and he or she doesn’t want that sort of publicity. Two months ago, I wrote an article in my blog complaining about several problems at a specific McDonald’s location (lack of trays every time I go there, lack of ketchup on a Saturday night, and two security guys who were blocking the entrance to the seating area just because they were having a chat), and, about two weeks later, I got what I believe to be a corporate "hit" from Google from someone at McDonald’s looking to see what people were saying about that specific McDonald’s location, and, the next time I went to that McDonald’s, everything I complained about had been rectified. I can’t prove that it’s simple cause-and-effect because of my blog entry, but I think it was at least a noteworthy coincidence, and my blog only has maybe a dozen or so regular readers, compared to hundreds of thousands of X-E readers.

If that article didn’t shame the Atlantic City Quality Inn into putting at least a little money into fixing the arcade machines (or adding new ones) and trying to get rid of the smell, I’m not sure that’s the sort of establishment I’d ever want to stay at, because the http://www.artima.com/intv/fixit2.html">broken window theory can apply to hotels as well. I know that it’s just a games room, and, even in chic-er hotels, the games rooms don’t tend to get as frequent attention from the cleaning and maintenance staff as the restaurant or lobby or, of course, the hotel rooms themselves, but if the hotel management lets the room fall into a state of general disrepair, it reflects very poorly on how much they care about the upkeep of the hotel in general.

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 05/29/2005 2:45 PM

Congratulations, Matt, "a winner is you!"

Chestnuts roasted by Kathodos @ 05/29/2005 2:45 PM

EMajorwitz, you are definitely a VIP. I’m suprised I made your list!!! And yes I agree with you Kathodos….Matt you are our Kin Korn Karn!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 05/29/2005 4:05 PM

unless, that is, you want to be any of the other dudes…..I lost, what a pity!

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 05/29/2005 4:07 PM

Thanks Erik…’sniff’…thanks a whole bunch! j/k

That other website is insane-o! Yeah, I would go with a van tribute instead!

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 05/29/2005 5:00 PM

Well like everyone else on the site, I also send my congrats on the Stuff blurb Matt. Let’s just hope that if this causes Matt to become very popular, and brings more traffic to XE, that the regulars to the page will be first to get past the velvet rope. As for the list EMajorwitz…of course you belong! :) I just hope that one day I’ll be on the list…maybe if i posted more often….well until that day! To end this post….as a congrats to Matt…Chocodiles and Ecto Cooler for all!

Chestnuts roasted by Jabo @ 05/29/2005 6:56 PM

oh man! I didn’t make the list. :(

Anyway, I was wondering about the bad-publicity effects of that article myself. It would be great to shame them into fixing it.

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 05/29/2005 8:36 PM

wow, some people get a little too weird with these forums.

Chestnuts roasted by a reader @ 05/29/2005 9:30 PM

Matt,

You contribute so many groovy articles for us to enjoy. I feel as though I should be making one for you though my talents would pale by comparison.

Since you’re always giving us humor I’d like to recommend a site that might give you a few laughs.

http://www.homestarrunner.com

Maybe you’ve heard of them?
This guy called "Strongbad" does a weekly email skit in java toon style. (check out the SBemail section of the site)

Or don’t. I don’t want to come off as being spammish. I do have your best interests in mind.

Chestnuts roasted by Novaximus @ 05/29/2005 10:29 PM

Congrats for being in stuff! :D

I really don’t know if I’m a "reg" here, but I hope the blog doesn’t get flooded with meaningless replies that’s my job j/k :P

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 05/30/2005 1:16 AM

Novaximus, everyone’s heard of Homestar Runner. Everyone.

Chestnuts roasted by Warx @ 05/30/2005 1:28 AM

Yes, I have.

Chestnuts roasted by Everyone @ 05/30/2005 1:30 AM

The "Worst Game Room" article was an instant classic piece.. just the right combination of obscure and funny.

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 05/30/2005 2:14 AM

I want an X-E coffie table book. Matt make a book it would kick ass.

Chestnuts roasted by legolarry @ 05/30/2005 5:29 AM

Coffee. My bad, but you realy should make a book. I’d buy 5 copies

Chestnuts roasted by legolarry @ 05/30/2005 5:32 AM

LOl! good stuff dude and grats on the publish.

oh and when will you announce the dvd winners? ^-^

Chestnuts roasted by the80sruled @ 05/30/2005 5:51 AM

Been reading XE for years, just wanted to pop up and say congrats on getting a spot in Stuff!

Chestnuts roasted by trance @ 05/30/2005 5:54 AM

Hey, congrats! That must feel awesome when "outside" people take notice of the site, and love the articles enough to advertise them for free. I always feel a little tickle of pleasure (no, not that kind, dirty minds!) whenever I see the X-E icon heading articles over at Fark.

Hey, I made the VIP list, cool! I guess dumping my opinion and rambling about the nonsense of my life here has paid off. ;)

Erik, are you guys still naming the baby Brett? How many weeks left?

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 05/30/2005 7:51 AM

Wow, an X-E VIP list. Erik and Kidneyboy (and I am sure a couple of others) definitely belong.
Maybe this will inspire Matt to do something that I always thought would have been funny: A "Meet Matt" contest a la "The KIDS IN THE HALL meet Paul Bellini Contest". The winner could stay in that Quality Inn in Atlantic City……

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 05/30/2005 8:57 AM

Hey Everybody! (Yes, I have heard of Homestarunner as well!)

In fact, my mornings on the Internet are:
X-E
ESPN
Homestarunner

Glad to see people consider me A list and not Corey Haim D-List celebrity. Then again, I’m the one that started the X-E VIP List, I mean for all I know, I could be the Jar Jar Binks of Matt’s official list.

Manimal- A meet Matt contest would be the coolest thing ever! Even better than designing a new figure for He-Man!!!

Yes Trajeal, we are still naming the baby Brett. Hope your other half doesn’t have beef with me anymore.

Pregnancy…It sure is nerve racking though. Germans record the pregnancy at during dates so when I say we are at Week 34 they are at Week 32. Really confusing. Plus, they want to monitor all the time now and my wife feels she is as big as a house. I never agree though. :)

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 05/30/2005 10:45 AM

I really dont have much more to add, but I wanted to say a congrats to you Matt!! Being in a mag is kick ass!

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 05/30/2005 10:50 AM

Erik,

good strategy :)

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 05/30/2005 11:02 AM

ERIK- Thanks for thinking of me. :)
So, you’re naming the baby Brett? I like it! But then again, Bret "the Hitman" Hart is one of my absolute heroes.

And to answer a question from a previous blog about my Korean experience of seeing Episode III, YES- You really do get a FREE DRIED SQUID in a little box with every popcorn combo at the theaters here in Korea (just a baby one)….jeez, back home we used to get a free chocolate bar or gummi worms.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 05/30/2005 11:03 AM

My best friend named his kid Brett, after Brett Favre. Yeah, being from Wisconsin, we name kids after da Packerss here, oh yah.

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 05/30/2005 11:06 AM

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