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

Happy Halloween, 2005!

Happy Halloween, FREAKS. Hope everyone has a good one. If you've got any interesting stories, post 'em in the comments. I've only got a second, because we've gotta fill about three dozen Ziploc bags with all the candy leftover from articles posted and articles never posted, but of course, there's a final entry on the Halloween Countdown, the Great Pumpkin-Related Something Or Another Sendoff Special! Yar yar yar.

I hope you've enjoyed this year's Halloween Countdown. I know I've skipped a bunch of entries here and there, but you seemed to live through it, I seemed to live through it, and I think we're all better people for it. Actually, I just counted -- over thirty entries total, and that ain't so bad. Strangely enough, I think the yogurt one came out best. Wish I had time to do even more than that, but we live and we learn, yar yar yar, and all that said, I've practically got the tinsel down from the attic anyway. We'll save the next holidays for the next entry -- everybody, GO! Go get some last spooky shit in. Go have fun. Thanks for being a part of this!

Posted by Matt on 10/30/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 178 comments
1 2 3 … 8

Cool

Chestnuts roasted by Rambozo @ 10/30/2005 10:57 PM

It’s been a great Halloween season at X-E! If only Halloween could be everyday…

Chestnuts roasted by D-Roc @ 10/30/2005 11:04 PM

Terrific Matt, as always. This was my first Year with X-E’s countdown, and its helped me keep my Halloween spirits up as well as keeping me feel younger than my 28 years. When my midterms came up, X-E kept me cool and happy. Thanks for your effort Matt.

Chestnuts roasted by bloodybrilliantme @ 10/30/2005 11:08 PM

Fourth!

onto the article…hey this is as close to my moment as possible…

i just got chocolate donuts and fruit snacks :)

Chestnuts roasted by Goob @ 10/30/2005 11:10 PM

I have been long time fan of the site, and I have got to say that this countdown has been one of the best!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 10/30/2005 11:13 PM

I laughed, I cried, I loved it! I could’ve gone for a little more "Ghost with the Most", but I have a feeling that we haven’t seen the last of him and his hilarious, zany antics. Oh Ghost – when will you ever learn?

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 10/30/2005 11:18 PM

Anyone else notice the lack of horror movies on broadcast TV (not including cable) the past few years? When I was young (I’m 26 now),I lived for the marathons of movies like Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street. Now it’s the night before Halloween and there’s nothing on. Time to throw on some Argento DVDs…..

Chestnuts roasted by D-Roc @ 10/30/2005 11:22 PM

I think I represent the majority when I raise my glass of iced tea to Matt and thank him for keeping the Halloween spirit alive. Thanks a million, we owe you a big one.

Chestnuts roasted by Phil @ 10/30/2005 11:25 PM

Click on my name if you enjoy seeing Cats forced into situations they hate, hilarity to ensue.

Chestnuts roasted by bloodybrilliantme @ 10/30/2005 11:26 PM

We had Beggar’s Night tonight. 108 tricker or treaters came. The coolest costume was a little kid dressed as a Jawa. Even had a mask with the glowing eyes.

Have you guys ever do something when you were younger, now as an adult you avoid because you’ve done or seen it so many times that if you did it one more time you would go insane? I got to admit that holiday specials do this to me. I’ve seen them all so many times when I was younger (through tapes, watching it on tv, watching it at school, etc) that I now actively avoid them like the plague. Haven’t watched one in years, but yet they are burned into my memory. I know their great, but after awhile I just grew tired of them. Maybe when I have a kid of my own I’ll watch them again.

Hope the above paragraph doesn’t get me lynched here.

BTW: Did anyone see the cool but silly Batman tv and dvd player on Page 60 of Toys R US Big Toy Book? It comes with buttons shaped like bats and Batarang-shaped remote controls. Weird, but cool at the same time.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 10/30/2005 11:33 PM

I watched Sleepaway Camp for the first time last night. I was expecting another 80′s F13 ripoff, and instead was greeted with an ending that almost 24 hours laters has still left me quite disturbed.

I do not get disturbed by movies, but that ending was….wow.

Chestnuts roasted by The Wukong Effect @ 10/30/2005 11:36 PM

Wukong: I think it’s the way they go to stillframe. :)

Also, you should really rent Sleepaway Camp 2, and to a lesser degree, the third. They’re completely different in style from the first, and completely awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/30/2005 11:39 PM

Sleepaway Camp is quite a classic. I love that movie and series. The two sequels are of a completely different tone, but are fun as well, as they are pretty much chock full of celebrity siblings.

Chestnuts roasted by AJ @ 10/30/2005 11:40 PM

Matt – you did an awesome job as usual. You might have had the "Halloween blahs" this year, but the countdown kept me excited throughout. Knowing your love for Christmas, I can’t wait for December to roll around…

… then again, I bet we won’t have to wait until December!

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Boligarky @ 10/30/2005 11:43 PM

Hahaha I just read last year’s monster cereals article twice with the strangest feeling of deja vu and I was so confused until I realized the link was wrong. It must have been hard to pick a top five favorite spooky articles…I’d include Tales from the Dark Side but otherwise it’s a great list…The TCM review is creeping me out all over again just to reread it. X-E holidays are wacky and wonderful, but also seem like a bitch to put together ;) Thanks for all the laughs, mang.
(ps, did you watch Rome? OMG I thought Atia was the cold blooded one in that family, but that Octavian!)

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/30/2005 11:44 PM

I would have forgotten about Halloween all together like last year if it wasn’t for the countdown. I even carved a pumpkin and took photos of myself spewing the innards from my mouth. Thanks Matt.

Chestnuts roasted by Mattman @ 10/30/2005 11:46 PM

Halloween countdown was awesome as usual, Matt…Can’t wait for Thanksgiving and Christmas…

But can we please not leave the Christmas theme up for so long this time? :)

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 10/30/2005 11:48 PM

Matt, as you know, I’ve been an X-E reader since the beginning. And I just wanna remind you how much this website means to me. I know it sounds cheesy, but this is like a refuge for my inner child that I’ve shielded from life as an adult.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Mack @ 10/30/2005 11:56 PM

Hey Matt, I wanted to thank you for the Halloween countdown. It acted as an inspiration to make me celebrate Halloween five times more than I usually would. I’ve had tons of candy, Jones soda, decorating kit Peeps, Mountain Dew Pitch Black II (four times), did four halloween parties, watched "Nightmare on Elm St", "Friday the 13th", Simpsons Halloween specials and all five "Child’s Play" films.
Tomorrow I carve a pumpkin (in your honor) and drink Pumpkin Ale (in my honor).

Chestnuts roasted by Barry Harmon @ 10/31/2005 12:03 PM

Awesome countdown this year. Seeing it end brings a tear to my eye though.

Chestnuts roasted by Larry @ 10/31/2005 12:12 PM

Matt, I will also add my voice to the chorus singing your spooky praises. This year did by no means, disappoint. Thanks for keeping the "spirit" alive (har,har)

On a side note that no one other than myself will care about:
I have recovered somewhat from my nasty virus that prevented me from going to 2 kick-ass parties on Sat. I had to scrap my tried n’ true Victorian chambermaid garroted by Jack the Ripper costume due to time and illness constraints. However, I’ve decided for a last-minute alternative for a shindig tomorrow (school holiday tomorrow so no teaching for me! :) ). I will simply safety-pin kitchen sponges all over my person and go as "Self-Absorbed."

Clever, eh? Eh? EH??!!! :(

Chestnuts roasted by Jillybeann @ 10/31/2005 12:17 PM

Good call on Mr. Boogedy, I’ve only been trying to remember that movie for the last ten years or so. I’ve been met with countless blank stares, asking "do you remember a Disney movie where there is like this cape that turns people into the Boogieman?" Thank you for unearthing that from the back of my memory.

I kinda feel that I half-assed my Halloween experience this year. No pumpkin. No costume. I tried to do a "Nightmare on Elm Street" marathon to get me psyched for Halloween, but I never got past Part 4. Perhaps it was my slowly bio-degrading vhs tapes, but those movies are not as good as I remember them.

Chestnuts roasted by Quammy @ 10/31/2005 12:25 PM

It’s a little depressing! Halloween has always been my favorite holiday, but I’m too old to trick or treat anymore, atleast in others eyes!

There aren’t very many avenues left open to me – I cannot drive and I have few friends that can. This halloween came and went and I haven’t really done anything to celebrate it.

I feel as if I do try and scramble together something, like downloading and watching a halloween special such as Garfield, that I will just get depressed and realized I’ve missed it!

Ah, what to do..

Chestnuts roasted by Aristobulus @ 10/31/2005 12:36 PM

Our beggar’s night is tonight, so I still have that to look forward to. I’ve spent the years since college mostly in California, and we got almost no trick or treaters (less than 5 the first year, one group of 3 the second, and I stopped bothering after that), but now we have our first house, back in the midwest. I am hoping for tons of trick or treaters this year! We bought a bunch of glow sticks and these little plastic pumpkins with little toys inside to give out in addition to candy. I know my world would have been rocked to get either when I was a kid, so I’m hoping to really thrill the kids in the neighborhood.

I did carve a pumpkin this year, picking out the perfect pumpkin (or 4, this year) has always been a tradition for me, often taking me to more than one pumpkin patch. I think half the reason I carve my pumpkin is because I love the roasted seeds, and the kind you can buy in the store are frankly nasty.

My favorite trick or treating story was from when I was probably 6 or 7. I have an older sister and two older cousins, we all grew up nearly as close as sisters. The oldest of the four of us is one of my cousins, she’s about 6 years older than me, I’m the youngest. So, she seemed almost like an adult to me on this occasion when the four of us were walking around our town on beggar’s night. She kept trying to scare us by sticking her foot under big evergreens as we passed them, and pretending that something had grabbed her foot. On probably the tenth time she tried this, she let out a real scream. She finally managed to scare someone with the trick: herself. A cat had been under the tree, and had attacked her shoe when she stuck her foot under. I’m surprised she didn’t wet her pants.

Chestnuts roasted by Liz @ 10/31/2005 1:18 AM

Good job, Matt…..goooood job. *clap clap clap*

Now we depressingly have to sit through some inevitable downtime as Matt barely appears for an entire month. And I have serious doubts that those huge Thanksgiving Parades Of The Past reviews are coming back–not on his new schedule. I’d have time to do ‘em, but Matt’s made it clear this site is his alone.

Speaking of things I do, I haven’t been as faithful an updater as Matt despite the fact that I have a lot more time to spend on my own site. My Halloween cartoon this year (though the Halloween connection is kind of small) fell behind and the last page probably won’t show up until November 5 or so. This fact is pretty annoying. If you want Halloween to linger, my effort’s been held over. Your options are either that, or The Simpsons next week.

Blasted Fox….ruining a good tradition with baseball.

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 10/31/2005 1:54 AM

1 2 3 … 8

Add A New Comment!


This entry was posted on Sunday, October 30th, 2005 at 10:47 pm and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.