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X-Entertainment’s First Horror Convention!

AHHHHH!Hello all! Hope you're enjoying your day off. There's a new article in town -- a massive two-page photo-essay on my first experience at a Horror Convention! We had a great time -- met Betsy Palmer, made Betsy Palmer sign a picture of her decapitated prop head and giggled when Betsy Palmer kept interrupting the guy who played Jason for three seconds in the first F13 movie. Lots of Freddy, Pinhead and other horror icons were also there to make this weekend one we won't soon forget. Admission: Article is really, really long and kind of all over the place, so bear with it.

In other news, this latest article is the last to be posted within X-E's long-running Christmas layout. I'm looking at the new design now -- Brian's just tweaking it up. I'm using it to introduce a couple of new features to the site that'll help keep the place alive during weekdays, since I think we can safely say that I have no time to write these EPICS after work. In short, better times are ahead for the site, and I thank all of you who've stuck by it during the eternal holiday season. You will all be rewarded with candy canes.

Posted by Matt on 05/30/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 133 comments

That’s pretty weird that both the Q&A guy and the roller skate girl found themselves on the site. Hopefully this doesn’t deter Matt from doing the great,brazen, honest portrayls of things/events/people that he does!
Loved this article- I agree with Novaximus- the elevator bit was hilarious.
ERIK- Nope, no DVDs…I DO have a worn out VHS tape with 6 episodes of Family Guy on it that I had my folks mail to me

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 06/02/2005 8:29 AM

The one guest who would make the X-E convention?
Nathan Bitner.
THE Nathan Bitner.
And yeah, the elevator bit had me cracking up here at my desk, much to the amusement of my coworkers.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 06/02/2005 8:55 AM

I am in for the X-E convention. That would be awesome! Is it just me or do you find yourself checking the site often to see if the Xmas theme is still up?

Chestnuts roasted by Tigerfan @ 06/02/2005 9:19 AM

We’re now trying to fix the problems on the new site that only appear on Macs.

That shouldn’t take too long, but do any of you use the Safari browser? If so, please stop.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 06/02/2005 10:16 AM

That shouldn’t take too long, but do any of you use the Safari browser? If so, please stop.,

I just want to say that cracked me up.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 06/02/2005 10:19 AM

Me too. I loathe Safari. I typically try not to visit this page when I’m on my Mac (today being an exception I guess) because if I preview my comment and then want to change anything, hitting the back button totally deletes it and I have to start over. But, yeah, Safari blows (in my opinion – I don’t want to start a Mac/PC war here. Those can get ugly.)

The comment above reminded me of one of my favorite Daily Show quotes from the Craig Kilborn years:

"In a related story, Dolly Madison cupcakes were also recalled, so if you’re the guy that eats those, quit it."

Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 06/02/2005 10:57 AM

Safari sucks. I’m not sure we’ll be able to make the site "applicable" to Safari if we ever want to get it done — and besides, shit on this site looks terrible on Safari even when there’s not a screwy code. It’s made for IE, but tweaked for Firefox.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 06/02/2005 11:03 AM

I used to use Netscape until the iMac’s nervous breakdown. Since its return, it Safari. Seems Ok to me. Unless you count the little window that randomly pops up and give me brief glimpses into the bowels of Hell. Did you know that Satan looks just like the guy on the deviled ham cans? And he does a wicked Electric Slide? Hey, there it is again! It’s Hitler ice-dancing with Caligula! hmmm, Never knew the Romans were so graceful on skates.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 06/02/2005 11:39 AM

I guess I should have said (in case it wasn’t obvious) that I don’t actually use Safari on my Mac. I use IE. I had to use Safari last week when IE just mysteriously quit working and I thought I was going to have to be medicated.

Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 06/02/2005 12:40 PM

I really have no choice, whatever the boss wants on the computer, I use. New OS, new browser.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 06/02/2005 1:29 PM

Bruce Campbell could not be there because he is or is going to be, on a book signing tour. "Make love the Bruce Campbell way" hits stores soon.
My next dog’s name will be Ash.. hope he play well with Brak, my first dog.

Chestnuts roasted by primusboy @ 06/02/2005 1:50 PM

I couldn’t stop laughing when i read the part about the little girl in the elevator. i’m sick.

Chestnuts roasted by Connor @ 06/02/2005 4:36 PM

OK everyone. I’ve just returned from England. Matt may be interested in learning about something called "fruit machines." Or perhaps he already has from one of X-E’s UK readers. Anyway, I played a bit, and I had no idea what the Hell I was doing. Part of it was a slot machine, and the other part was…well…I don’t know what. Here’s a link to the website of one of the major manufacturer’s of such machines:

http://www.bellfruitgames.co.uk">Bell-Fruit Games

Enjoy.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 06/02/2005 6:22 PM

Oh. And it’s great to know that Matt’s finally having the layout changed. Looks like my constant nagging finally got his lazy ass to do it (as well as everyone else’s nagging). Heh heh. Can’t wait to see it.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 06/02/2005 6:25 PM

Sorry for the OT, post but I need some help! I just got the 20th Anniversary Optimus Prime for my 5 year old. I transformed into the rig pretty easy except for 1 part. I can’t get the legs to telescope down. The instructions say push in on the gas tanks and push down but it won’t go. Anyone have any pointers?

Chestnuts roasted by Joe in OH @ 06/02/2005 9:06 PM

HEY! Matt’s not lazy. Matt does the very best he can. We should be grateful for every moment he can dedicate to us all.

Yeah, an emo kid not begging for someone’s undivided attention. Weird huh?

But I mean it, be grateful!

You Rule Matt! Take as long as ya need.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 06/02/2005 11:07 PM

Ok this is a little off topic. The web comic, vgcats, had a great comic aobut revenge of the sith, yesterday. http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=150
It pretty much makes fun of most of the things fans have been complaining about.

Chestnuts roasted by BrightNoah @ 06/03/2005 12:12 PM

LOL! That comic was great.

Chestnuts roasted by the80sruled @ 06/03/2005 1:53 AM

Matt your in Stuff magazine this month Yay for you!

Chestnuts roasted by Becky @ 06/03/2005 2:23 AM

Oh yeah I played those when I was in England. I too have absolutely no idea what I was doing. Those things are in every pub there and make no sense whatsoever.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 06/03/2005 9:19 AM

All things considered, I’d rather play pachinko. Or the Spam machines at the tribal casino where my Dad works.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 06/03/2005 12:00 PM

–>>.. That is so great the horror !! Soon all July will be here and it will be X-mas in July at X-E !! wha00 !!

Chestnuts roasted by ~tOkK @ 06/03/2005 11:07 PM

It’s official, Matt and this website are those people on your block who leave the Christmas lights up all summer long. Matt’s out front, wearing long black socks with his sandals, shorts, and wifebeater, mowing the lawn to demonstrate that he’s not only physically capable of taking the lights down, but going out of his way not to. Then he takes them down on December 24th. Why? Because F*#@ you, that’s why.

Chestnuts roasted by Shucksbetweenfits @ 06/04/2005 4:37 AM

Your review was great! I went to Monster Mania Con 1 & 2, and your comments sound dead on. I went as a casual fan helping my brother to sell his horror-related paintings (yes, I was part of the dealer mess!) Of course, we had to take turns at the dealer table, so we could go look around at everything and buy more stuff! These conventions are definatley more fun than I thought they would be too! Hopefully, we’ll be back at another one soon.

Chestnuts roasted by Adrienne @ 06/04/2005 11:56 AM

OOO.. there was a wedding at last year’s too… our dealer table was in the hall right by the doors to go out the back, so we saw a lot of wedding guests go though… lol

Chestnuts roasted by Adrienne @ 06/04/2005 12:02 PM

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