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08/30/2005: 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.


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Discussion Thread: 156 comments

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

Ghosted by gerv @ 08/30/2005 8:01 PM EDT


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

Ghosted by JoshW @ 08/30/2005 8:05 PM EDT


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.

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 08/30/2005 8:31 PM EDT


fourth!!! anyone remember Sky Bars? Yum.

Ghosted by another matt @ 08/30/2005 8:35 PM EDT


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. :)

Ghosted by Matt @ 08/30/2005 8:36 PM EDT


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

Ghosted by Randomness @ 08/30/2005 8:36 PM EDT


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

Ghosted by The Yeti @ 08/30/2005 9:03 PM EDT


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

Ghosted by Maria @ 08/30/2005 9:11 PM EDT


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

Well, back to Thundercats.

Ghosted by Cyanyde @ 08/30/2005 9:11 PM EDT


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

Ghosted by Maria @ 08/30/2005 9:11 PM EDT


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.

Ghosted by Matt @ 08/30/2005 9:12 PM EDT


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.)

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 08/30/2005 9:16 PM EDT


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

Ghosted by Warx @ 08/30/2005 9:22 PM EDT


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

Ghosted by Jenna @ 08/30/2005 9:32 PM EDT


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.

Ghosted by Wyatt @ 08/30/2005 9:37 PM EDT


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.

Ghosted by Wyatt @ 08/30/2005 9:46 PM EDT


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.

Ghosted by starwenn @ 08/30/2005 9:46 PM EDT


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.

Ghosted by T.J. @ 08/30/2005 9:49 PM EDT


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".

Ghosted by Carri @ 08/30/2005 10:10 PM EDT


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.

Ghosted by The Yeti @ 08/30/2005 10:20 PM EDT


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

Ghosted by Carri @ 08/30/2005 10:28 PM EDT


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.

Ghosted by Jeff Mack @ 08/30/2005 10:59 PM EDT


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.

Ghosted by Matt @ 08/30/2005 11:01 PM EDT


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…

Ghosted by A.J. Poirier @ 08/30/2005 11:05 PM EDT


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.

Ghosted by perfidia @ 08/30/2005 11:09 PM EDT


I love what it says across the top bar when I begin my trip to X-E, todays was quite possibly the best yet

Ghosted by Diarrhea Dave @ 08/30/2005 11:30 PM EDT


I’m now toying with the idea of adding a section to the bottom of each Countdown article where we can post assorted Halloween-related artwork — cheesy crayon kinda stuff. I’m guessing we can get 30 nice "entries" if needed from the various folks on here.

Ghosted by Matt @ 08/30/2005 11:40 PM EDT


Cookies and Cream and Mint Hershey bars are the best!

I want a coloring contest!!! Don’t ask why, but those were always fun. Remember the poster contests we did in elementary school during Fire Safety Month? I hope that wasn’t just my elementary school!

Ghosted by Allison @ 08/30/2005 11:49 PM EDT


yea, i’d go every other day. There should be a contest to see who can draw the best halloween themed dog picture. Tjat would be cool. Because dogs dont celebrate halloween, unless the drink from jack-o-lantern candy things. Then they do celebrate. All year long.

Ghosted by BetterThanFew @ 08/30/2005 11:52 PM EDT


I’d say we’d get 30 easy.
I’ve gotta tell you guys how awesome it is to be able to read about everyone’s favorite candies while I’m sitting in class watching boring movies. I’m sorry to brag, but mobile X-E is absolutely the shit.

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 08/30/2005 11:56 PM EDT


Let’s make this short and sweet. 1.) Weekends off is cool, but we know I’ve always been a kissarse. 2.)Watchamacallit. 3.)New Our Lady Peace…well yesterday now that I check the clock! 4.)Blasphemous but I’ve been listening to Take This To Your Grave all day instead of it. Pete Wentz you have a new disciple.

Ghosted by Knegative @ 08/31/2005 12:13 PM EDT


For candy bar I’ll say Mars/Snickers almond, since they changed the name. But if I could only have one candy I would have to say gummi bears. T.J. I remember those sandwiches. I think I tried the Itallian one and the French one. Matt, I don’t mind if you update every other day or on the weekends.

Ghosted by pikachulover @ 08/31/2005 12:34 PM EDT


I also vote for weekday updates with weekends off. Besides, we can always do the Weekend Anything Goes thread you’ve been doing lately.

Although I also prefer fruit candy, Candy-Bar wise, I pick Milky Ways. Speaking of candy bars, we had our annual state fair a couple of weeeks ago and I had my first DEEP-FRIED SNICKERS BAR on a stick. BEST FOOD ITEM EVER. I was in heaven. They also had deep fried oreos, ho-hos, twinkies, and other assorted candy bars. YUM.

Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 08/31/2005 12:37 PM EDT


Hey Matt! I broke in my new high-speed internet by watching one of the 80s ads. My ad of choice? Lazer Tag! My stupid AOL 8.0 didn’t allow me to watch any of the ads w/o downloading them, and even then it was painfully slow!!

I now look forward to watching more of the videos!!!! I plan to go through the archives.

Ghosted by Allison @ 08/31/2005 12:39 PM EDT


Milky Way (Mars Bars to our U.K. Friends)… all the way!

Ghosted by Cameron T. @ 08/31/2005 1:30 AM EDT


I think a Halloween update every other day would be fine. It still keeps a regular schedule without giving you overload.

And by the way, I don’t think I ever told you great the Castle Dracula article turned out. A better eulogy couldn’t have been written for the place, & I don’t grieve over it as much anymore.

Also yay for guest spots on the fight scenes list!

Ghosted by Mike Fireball @ 08/31/2005 2:50 AM EDT


I was going to say snickers, but now that I think about it, Mr. Big puts it to shame. And yes, they still make it. You just gotta know where to look.

Ghosted by cheaptrick @ 08/31/2005 3:52 AM EDT


P.S. Voted Snickers Ice Cream bars.

Ghosted by Fireball @ 08/31/2005 3:57 AM EDT


My friends and I have begun a tuesday tradition. Basically it is our dork day where we just fuck with computers all day : gaming, making music, whatever. It quite craptacular.

Ghosted by phunqsauce @ 08/31/2005 5:01 AM EDT


I like Big Hunk. One of these days it’s going to pull out all my teeth.

But my vote is gonna have to go Almond Joy for this one. I could eat those all day everyday and die happy… probably lol

Also i’m also with the majority on this one for weekday updates. :)

Ghosted by Joey Orion @ 08/31/2005 5:44 AM EDT


Since I’m all about procrastinating at work, weekday updates gets my vote. I like the idea of having the contests or project type posts on Fridays, though, so people could be engaged with x-e halloween goodness over the weekend if they so desire, with no extra work for Matt.

Ghosted by Jimbalaya @ 08/31/2005 7:28 AM EDT


I like the weekday option. But also like boring saturday nights as well.
If it wasn’t a tooth killer I’d say Carlston Chew Vanilla was my favorite, but since I never eat it any more I’ll go with Pearson’s Nut Goodie

Ghosted by kb @ 08/31/2005 8:14 AM EDT


KitKats definitely. Doesn’t matter the size: BigKats, littleKats…whatever…as long as it’s a KitKat.

Ghosted by Marzipan @ 08/31/2005 8:50 AM EDT


I’m voting for Violet Crumble. Partially because the only place I’ve ever seen it is in Australia, and I like the idea of every candy bar I eat becoming a matter of international intrigue.
And I’m all for halloween-related art projects this season. I mean, I have no discernable talent or ability, but at least I’ve got enthusiasm.

Ghosted by Jedoc @ 08/31/2005 8:56 AM EDT


Milky Way Midnight…mmm, dark and mysterious…

Ghosted by B-Dawg @ 08/31/2005 9:05 AM EDT


Gotta go with Snickers too. It’s probably not my favorite candy bar, but it’s the old standard. I think my current favorites (Milky Way Midnight, Mounds) are different enough that I think I’d get tired of them. If that makes sense. I don’t think I’d get too tired of Snickers.

Ghosted by Gozer @ 08/31/2005 9:28 AM EDT


Its all about the Zero

Ghosted by TheTick @ 08/31/2005 9:46 AM EDT


Thanks Fireball!

And Snickers Ice Cream Bars are f’n gooood.

For some reason, I’ve never been a huge Kit Kat fan.

Bank on doing some Halloween art this year, guys. :)

Ghosted by Matt @ 08/31/2005 9:46 AM EDT


Yeah, take the weekends off! X-Entertainment is best when one casually peruses articles at a leisurely pace during work hours. Like a slacker.
The sexiest candy bar? Symphony.

Ghosted by Master H @ 08/31/2005 9:56 AM EDT


Milky Way Midnights are yummy. When I was younger they used to have them as ice cream bars too…and they served them in the school cafeteria! Yum! I feel bad for all these kids today that are stuck with carrot sticks and other assortments of *ugh* healthy foods!

Remember those staples of the cafeteria that were ice cream sort of dipped in bits of crunch stuff? You could either get chocolate or strawberry coated. I didn’t describe that very welll…

Ghosted by purplegirl247 @ 08/31/2005 10:05 AM EDT


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