X-Entertainment.com X-Entertainment.com A Proud UGO Affiliate
X-Entertainment loves Christmas and will not stop talking about it, ever.
« [Main Index] »

Tuesday Update?!

I'm getting pretty tired of seeing the blog updated only during the weekends, so I can imagine how some of you might feel. So look! Tuesday update! Don't really have much to say, but...TUESDAY UPDATE! Oh yeah, I updated the Kool-Aid Section with a shortie on Kool-Aid Kool Pumps, a Sharkleberry Fin-flavored treat offered at Burger King restaurants in 1991. TUESDAY UPDATE!

I hate to be a redundant broken broken record record, but I'm reallllly getting psyched for the Halloween season. I do this to myself every year. Trust me, it's a lot different when your holiday seasons are spent writing about holiday seasons everyday. I'm toying with the idea of doing the Halloween Countdown every other day this year, but I hate to break tradition like that. We'll see how it goes. Actually, this is a good question to ask -- which would you prefer? Updates every other day, or updates on every weekday with the weekends off? Perhaps the latter makes the most sense. It would be ideal for me to have Sats and Suns to write the following week's worth of entries. It's a lot to do in a weekend, but I'd rather have the extra time and have them come out the way I'd like than write them all when I get home from work. We'll see. I may still end up doing them everyday, because in my mind, that's the tradition and it should stay. Especially because I've already collected better loot for this year's extravaganza than the past two years combined.

Also on that note, I may need a good hand to help out with a few graphics for this year's Countdown. Nothing too fancy, but if you've got serious skills, send me an e-mail. You'll need to be able to do stuff as funky as what's on the main page of the site. Haven't thought about what this would pay. Not much. Consider it a labor of love.

Surrrrvey Sez! If you could only have one candy bar for the rest of your life, what would it be? I'm going with Snickers.

Posted by Matt on 08/30/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 157 comments
1 2 3 … 7

snickers, too…even though lactose intolerance sayz i get nuthin

Chestnuts roasted by gerv @ 08/30/2005 8:01 PM

I’m thinking Whatchamacallit. King-size, if I can choose. Yummm…

Chestnuts roasted by JoshW @ 08/30/2005 8:05 PM

I think the weekday thing is a better idea…that way we can drift to the non-weeny on the weekends if we need the break (perish the thought) and we won’t have confused people clamboring for updates on the off days like we might on the other schedule.
I’d probably go with Snickers as well, but I’m more of a sugar lover than a chocoholic. Whoever says plain Hershey’s is boring, and probably destined to marry whoever says Take Five.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 08/30/2005 8:31 PM

fourth!!! anyone remember Sky Bars? Yum.

Chestnuts roasted by another matt @ 08/30/2005 8:35 PM

Yeah, weekdays sound good. Way I see it, even if I only got three done on the weekend, that would leave me until Wednesday to get the other two finished. Not that there isn’t something to be said for the seven-days-a-weekers, but using last year as the barometer (since I had a job as opposed to the previous year), there were a few rushed and/or uninspired updates that were all due to lack of time.

We should all brainstorm a few fun art contests and things of that sort, too. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/30/2005 8:36 PM

Baby Ruth. Yum. Try freezing it and then breaking into chunks. Messy, but so tasty.

Chestnuts roasted by Randomness @ 08/30/2005 8:36 PM

Twix. It’s the only candy with the cookie-crunch, bee-yitch.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 08/30/2005 9:03 PM

The new Take 5 bars are pretty rockin’….or KitKats

Chestnuts roasted by Maria @ 08/30/2005 9:11 PM

Smarties bars.. :) Do you guys have those in the US?

Well, back to Thundercats.

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 08/30/2005 9:11 PM

Never heard of a Smarties bar…what’s in it?

Chestnuts roasted by Maria @ 08/30/2005 9:11 PM

Was tempted to say Twix. Same with Reese’s Pieces. But if I had to survive on one and one only, Snickers gets the nod. It’s the peanuts.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/30/2005 9:12 PM

Ooooh the coloring contest was just so fun last time! I was just backing up my hard drive when I came across last year’s entries with the punching Draculas and was simply gleeful. We should think of some really good projects this year. I’d make an applehead but those things freak me out. (I’m sure people will be wanting to link to pics oftheir decorations…photobucket.com, ladies and gents.)

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 08/30/2005 9:16 PM

One of those gigantic lollypops. They last forever, and there’s always the chance that a girl can enjoy/lick me.

Chestnuts roasted by Warx @ 08/30/2005 9:22 PM

I like the weekday with weedends off idea. I would get too confused if you just went on alternating days. Im easily confused.

Chestnuts roasted by Jenna @ 08/30/2005 9:32 PM

Something about mixing ‘candy’ with ‘bar’ sounds very unappealing to me, assuming it’s not spelled ‘unapealling’. I guess it’s because your typical bar comes in your typical chocolate variety, which I find typically gross.
I’m a fruit-flavors man Myself.

Okay, Halloween story. So our dogs are drinking from an empty Halloween candy bowl, right? Because, the dogs need water and well… they can’t really complain. But whenever I walk by it, observing the jack-o-lanterns now sumerged in a mixture of tap water and dog saliva, it somehow sparks my Halloween nostalgia unit. Come to think of it, a lot of things do these days.

This is the first Halloween in a while where I won’t have a website to decorate, even though admittedly, I’d never gotten much traffic in the first place, it all feels a bit disappointing. But at least now there’s X-E.

And that dog bowl. I envy those dogs.

Chestnuts roasted by Wyatt @ 08/30/2005 9:37 PM

Oh, and I guess I forgot to comment, that I also like the weekday updates with weekend off idea better.

And if the option were extended to just plain "candy", I think it’d be a tie between chewy-runts and something gummy.

ALSO: I don’t want to seem presumptuous, but last October I spent an incredible amount of labor and eventually killed around 6 people out of frustration in making a Halloween themed video for this one old (now dead) website.

It turned out pretty mediocre, but it has a good Halloween ambience. Obviously I’m not asking you to review it or anything, but would you like to see it, at least? Sorry if it seems kind of out of line for me to ask.

Chestnuts roasted by Wyatt @ 08/30/2005 9:46 PM

On the subject of the Holiday Countdowns (and I’m referring to the Christmas one, too), whatever works best for you and your schedule is fine by me.

As for the candy bar I can’t live without, I must have eaten tons of the Double Chocolate Kit-Kats. I still see them every now and then, but last year, the grocery store I worked in seemed to be the only place in the South Jersey area that carried them. The white chocolate-coated Kit-Kats are tasty, too.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 08/30/2005 9:46 PM

Ha! I remember those International Chicken Sandwiches at Burger King. They were the long sandwiches like the "Original Chicken Sandwich" that they have now. There was the Italian: requisite Marinara and Mozzerella. The French: Ham and Swiss Cheese. The American: Lettuce, Tomato, Mayo, and American Cheese. I think there may have been one more, but I can’t recall what it was. Maybe someone could help out.

Chestnuts roasted by T.J. @ 08/30/2005 9:49 PM

I vote for weekends off with weekend blog assignments.

I like surveys and contests. How about something new lik a "name that random halloween image night".

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 08/30/2005 10:10 PM

A few peanuts do indeed go a long way. Snickers places as a very close second after Twix in my book, with Kit-Kat taking the bronze. Milky Ways suck.

Matt, I do wish that X-E was already adorned in its traditional pagan finery in anticipation of the impending Halloween season, because then I wouldn’t feel like such a dope for already having my apartment decorated with pumpkins and cardboard skeletons in August.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 08/30/2005 10:20 PM

Bite-size Snickers, the kind that get dropped in your halloween bucket.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 08/30/2005 10:28 PM

Krackel – they’re like the unofficial Christmas candy bar. Don’t even THINK about telling me any different.

Yeah, I like the M-F schedule as well. X-E from Oct-Jan is my fav time, since Halloween and the holiday season are just ripe with nostalgia.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Mack @ 08/30/2005 10:59 PM

Ah yes, Krackel does bring the Christmas cheer. I associate as much with birthday parties as I do Christmas, but that would be a contender if it had chewy caramel and peanuts.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/30/2005 11:01 PM

Which candy bar would I recommend? Well, if you like picking sticky shit out of your teeth for half an hour afterwards, I’d recommend eating a Butterfinger.

Seriously though, I’d go with good ol’ Twix. Sure, those two bars are pretty small, but there’s just something subconsciously pleasing about having two chocolate bars in one package. Hmmm…

Chestnuts roasted by A.J. Poirier @ 08/30/2005 11:05 PM

Reeses Peanut Butter Cups all the way!!! I could eat those for the rest of my life…though I am sure that would shorten what I have left of it.

Chestnuts roasted by perfidia @ 08/30/2005 11:09 PM

1 2 3 … 7

Add A New Comment!


This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 30th, 2005 at 7:59 pm and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.