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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

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

Chestnuts roasted by Diarrhea Dave @ 08/30/2005 11:30 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/30/2005 11:40 PM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 08/30/2005 11:49 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by BetterThanFew @ 08/30/2005 11:52 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 08/30/2005 11:56 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 08/31/2005 12:13 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 08/31/2005 12:34 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 08/31/2005 12:37 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 08/31/2005 12:39 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 08/31/2005 1:30 AM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by Mike Fireball @ 08/31/2005 2:50 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by cheaptrick @ 08/31/2005 3:52 AM

P.S. Voted Snickers Ice Cream bars.

Chestnuts roasted by Fireball @ 08/31/2005 3:57 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 08/31/2005 5:01 AM

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. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Joey Orion @ 08/31/2005 5:44 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Jimbalaya @ 08/31/2005 7:28 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 08/31/2005 8:14 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Marzipan @ 08/31/2005 8:50 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 08/31/2005 8:56 AM

Milky Way Midnight…mmm, dark and mysterious…

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 08/31/2005 9:05 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 08/31/2005 9:28 AM

Its all about the Zero

Chestnuts roasted by TheTick @ 08/31/2005 9:46 AM

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. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/31/2005 9:46 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Master H @ 08/31/2005 9:56 AM

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…

Chestnuts roasted by purplegirl247 @ 08/31/2005 10:05 AM

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