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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

Ahoy there! I’d definitely go with ButterFingers. The way it sticks to your teeth oh god it’s orgasmic. And Matt, I know when the article premeired you probably got alot of email about this but back in 2000 or so you did something on ROTJ toys and said the Tie Interceptor was Darth Vader’s new fighter. It was a mass produced next generation Tie fighter. You can see several sqaudrons of em in the space battle. God I’m lonely.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 08/31/2005 5:33 PM

Bah Milky Way!

This’ll be my first halloween watching X-E im excited! =P

Chestnuts roasted by Rutir @ 08/31/2005 5:33 PM

You are exited for good reason RUTIR. It shall be a joyful event with costumes and bobbing for apples. It will be glorious! Why am I still posting?

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 08/31/2005 5:43 PM

I say do them on the weekdays, but reserve the right to do them on the weekends if you’ve got some extra cool loot you need to share.
Do kinder eggs count? I’ve always loved those, use to get them before they were packaged with warnings in 10 languages.

Chestnuts roasted by RAS @ 08/31/2005 5:53 PM

Snickers, definitely!

Also, remember a few months ago when a bag of Tato Skins was shown (in upstate NY, I think). Anyway, I found some of those in a grocery store here in Stillwater, OK. So they either still make them, or I got one of the last remaining bags in the SW. Also I bought the "new" Jell-O Pudding Pops…it felt like grocery shopping with my mom when I was a kid!

Chestnuts roasted by Rosella @ 08/31/2005 5:53 PM

Mars bars,because… you know i think i just like the taste of them, i cant say that it’s from my child hood, cause i’m 15, but i just like them more then snickers.

Chestnuts roasted by Flarekatana @ 08/31/2005 6:14 PM

They’ve got the Skins here in Anadarko, Rosella. But they, and Krunchers! are made by another company now, Keebler having gone to just making cookies and crackers. maybe the Elves are scared of potatoseses or something.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 08/31/2005 6:17 PM

I don’t go online on weekends, so weekday updates are good!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 08/31/2005 6:17 PM

No problem Purplegirl.

Speaking of purple, I just tried the new Mountain Dew Pitch Black II and it’s pretty good. I didn’t find the original version to be that special, but the tang in this makes it pretty tasty.

I hope they bring back the Pepsi Holiday Spice but from what I hear I doubt it will happen. That was AWESOME.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 08/31/2005 6:24 PM

I would go with Kit-Kats, I just adore them…unless i’m with 4 or more people.

Oh, and those "giant lollipops" that someone mentioned earlier are actually called Lollapaloozas.

The more you know…

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 08/31/2005 6:44 PM

I’ve gotta go with the peanut butter Twix. And I’m not about to scroll through all these to find out the name of whoever brought it up,but they still make Skybar. You have to look in your more Mom And Pop drugstores and such as opposed to Walmart.

Chestnuts roasted by kid nicky @ 08/31/2005 7:56 PM

I really do hope Pepsi decides to bring back Holiday Spice. Nothing better than sitting in my house all alone during the holidays, guzzling down 2 liters of that sweet nectar while watching my cartoons.

Chestnuts roasted by Jim Harvey @ 08/31/2005 9:33 PM

Well, Pitch Black II is out, so I’d expect something. Also of note: In the many years of X-E serving advertisements, Pitch Black II’s are one of the few I’m actually proud to host. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/31/2005 9:40 PM

Pitch Black II is very good. I bought it not expecting much but was convinced it was worthwhile after opening the bottle and getting that first grape whiff. I couldn’t drink it everyday but it’s a good seasonal thing.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 08/31/2005 10:16 PM

Hey Matt, I know I’m a bit late, but I’ve had an idea for weekend content. You should have all of us send in pictures of our halloween decorations, then you could post the good ones. It would be fun for us, and not much work for you. The perfect combination.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff @ 08/31/2005 10:48 PM

Another rocking candy..Reese’s PB Cups, but only the ones where ONE comes by itself in the package! Then you know it’s Halloween :)

Matt

Chestnuts roasted by Another Matt @ 08/31/2005 11:04 PM

Ok, I have no time to read allll those posts, like I’d normally do. I’m running on about 10 hours of sleep in the past 3 nights.

For the countdown, we’ll love it any way you decide to do it, Matt :) Whatever works best for you.

Candy Bar – Well, being vegan puts a damper on that, so I’ll answer it two ways. Before I was vegan, I would’ve picked a Hershey’s Symphony Bar, most likely. Purely delectable milk chocolate all by its’ lonesome, or with toffee and almond, I think. Now, the closest thing I eat to a candy bar is called a Luna Bar (Nutz Over Chocolate flavor, please!) They are really yummy, and good for you. :D

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 08/31/2005 11:07 PM

The BEST EVER Reese Cups were the ones that came in the 3 packs that you’d sell for school fundraisers. They seemed bigger, and way fresher – like a fancy, deluxe version of itself.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 08/31/2005 11:10 PM

Well, that one’s easy: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/kiyone/Orange-Aero-bars.jpg">Orange Aero (which, I think, is officially called "Aero Orange"), the very special kind of Aero, which is a milk chocolate bar originating in Britain, with a bubble texture inside that they only seem to sell a couple of times a decade here in Canada (though it’s a constant in England). The orange version has a nice tangy (faux) orange flavour, and the bubbles are an eye-pleasing orange colour encased in a darker chocolate outer shell.

If anyone’s wondering what http://www.nestle.ca/en/Products/Browse_by_Category/Chocolates/Smarties_Bars.htm?view=CatView">Smartie’s Bars are exactly, it’s a chocolate bar containing Smarties, but the British/Canadian Smarties, which are candy-coated chocolate buttons that are essentially like larger, flatter M&M’s. It’s got nothing to do with American Smarties, the chalky candy things in rolls, which are known as "Rockets" in Canada.

As for graphics, this probably isn’t what you’re looking for, but I doing http://stevebrandon3280.fotopic.net/c598021.html">drawings of London city street scenes, and, incongruously, the occasional movie-based MS Paint picture. I also, after a long hiatus, recently tried my hand at cartooning again, drawing http://kiyone.blogspot.com/2005_08_21_kiyone_archive.html#112484402672331908">this drawing of an obscure anime character (Natsumi Tsujimoto from You’re Under Arrest for those of you in the know) whacking that annoying "Mr. Opportunity" guy from the Honda Commercials in the nads with a baseball bat.

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 08/31/2005 11:14 PM

You know, tonight I sat down and tried to just do it all myself, and it hasn’t come out too bad, really. Brian’s busier than ever and won’t be able to handle it this year, but it looks like we’re safe. I don’t plan on revamping the main page entirely (for reasons that should be obvious to any longtime reader), but rather revamp the look of last year’s Countdown and add a section on the main page that links to it. So far, so good, but thanks as always, Steve!

How ARE those Reese’s Big Cups, anyway?

Regarding the Halloween Art schtuff, it’s definitely in top running to put an open call out for readers (well, readers of the blog, at least) to send in artwork to tag at the end of each Countdown entry. If not, there will definitely be a couple of dedicated days for it.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/31/2005 11:21 PM

Butter Finger Crisps or Whatchamacallit. So I picked two. Oh well!!! :)

Chestnuts roasted by Heathtown @ 08/31/2005 11:25 PM

ART CONTEST!!! I’m so very excited. I’m sharpening my crayons with my teeth as I write. mmmmmm crayons….

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 08/31/2005 11:36 PM

Matt: The Big Cup is about the size of two regular size PB cups stacked on top of each other.

Can’t wait for the PB 2 entry (hey, 2 PB’s that mean totally different things in one post. Cool)

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 09/01/2005 12:10 PM

whew, i’m late!!

Candy Barrrr: Uh, P.B. Max, if this was 1987, mmmm, but otherwise, Snickers Crunchers. I like the Fun Size ones in particular, since they are to be found in abundance at Ye Olde Bigg Lottes…cheap, yo.

Just got the Muppet Show DVD, and I love the very firstest sketch, its that one "menominah" song. I feel like a moron because I don’t know the name of that song, and it’s been popping up in commercials and shit too! Can anyone enlighten me?

menominah, doot do do doo do…..menominah doot do doo doot. Necronomicon, doot do doo do do. ;)

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 09/01/2005 12:16 PM

Hundredth post!

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/01/2005 9:07 AM

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