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Well HELLO there!

First off, thanks to everyone who posted their kind words in the previous thread (and via e-mail) about all of the Halloween coverage on the site. I got a little depressing towards the end, but it was all a lot of fun and part of a continuing learning experience on how to bring the most to the site with the more limited time I have these days.

Just wrapped a major project at work that's been keeping me there late, up late and all in all late. Everything looks good, and it's got a pretty interesting footnote to it. I'll show you all the completed spot this weekend.

It might interest you to know that the article on deck is a review of the 2005 Jones Soda Holiday Pack, complete with three new flavors sure to make my unsuspecting taste-test victims sick. This year's offering hasn't lit the world on fire to anywhere near the level that last year's did, but I guess, if you've seen one turkey soda, you've seen them all. With a few other articles planned to be sprinkled in, I can also promise a new Macy's Thanksgiving Parade review this month. A really good one, too, with commercials and all.

Beyond that, it'll then be time for X-E's 2005 Christmas season, featuring an all new Advert Calendar, and an all new Playmobil Advent Calendar that introduces a LEGO Advent Calendar to the mix. We'll see how that goes.

Sit tight.

Posted by Matt on 11/03/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 94 comments

Didnt somebody make fun of him one time and all he did was say "Whoa" for an entire song.

Ya, SNL did a long time ago when they parodied Blossom. Mike Meyers played the Joey character, and only said "whoa" the entire sketch. Then came his music video entitled "Whoa" and the only lyircs were "Whoa…Girl…Whoa"

And yes, I’ve been seeing salute Your Shorts t-shirts at Hot Topic too. That means a DVD realease shouldn’t be too far behind…

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 11/04/2005 4:45 PM

Eddie Lightning Frog, that’s hillarious!!! I feel the same way, like you don’t really want to make eye contact and you’re concentrating on the new holiday, but then again you can’t resist seeing what’s left on sale. And you feel sort of ashamed loving a new holiday sooo much when just last week Halloween was The Big Thing and now you kinda want it out of the picture cause its blood and ghosts are interfering with snowy Christmas joy.
I want to start the Christmas festivities so much but its just a bit too early, well I really can’t consider it Christmas till my tree is up which I do several days before Thanksgiving to my wife’s shame. I am looking for Christmas carols on the radio as I drive though and last night heard some in a store and that made me happy.

Chestnuts roasted by Funky Boo Berry the 70's Ghost @ 11/04/2005 4:49 PM

Will Mare be making an appearance on X-E this Christmas??

Chestnuts roasted by D-Roc @ 11/04/2005 4:51 PM

Upon seein the mention of a Macys Parade AND the Calendar (plus a LEGO one) my jaw literally dropped. This will be my 2nd year of seein the Advent Calendar as it happens…so ya know I’m lookin forward to it. Even lookin forward to the Macys Parade, those articles are usually long suckers…but so worth the time! So here’s to those and any other upcoming articles (including the Jones Soda one this weekend) I finish off by saying I hope we see Mare this year, and hope she’s still the evil bitch we’ve come to know and love. (or hate…however u wanna look at it) :D

Chestnuts roasted by Jabo @ 11/04/2005 5:03 PM

John Candy jamming to Ray Charles was pretty sweet, but for my money, the movie’s highest point is Steve Martin at the car rental agency.

FAT LADY FROM SMALL WONDER: How may I help you?

Yeah, you know the rest.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 11/04/2005 5:17 PM

Oh yeah, I think this is where I picke-up some of my very important words of vocabulary at such a young age. Thank you Mr. Martin

Chestnuts roasted by D-MAN @ 11/04/2005 5:32 PM

This sucks!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051104/bs_nm/food_coke_dc

Vanilla and Lemon Cokes bite the dust. I liked those flavors.

I hope to see a Survivor Series article since there was no Halloween Havoc one. Matt vs. the Gobbledy Gooker

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 11/04/2005 5:37 PM

I hate it when younger kids (or even people who just fake) try to talk to me about 80’s shows: “Yeah man Alf was cool man, he was so 80’s…yeah man he was hairy and had sunglasses sometimes….and…and he’s just so 80’s” -Gottdammit if you can’t tell me what a BLT is than shut the hell up about Alf, youngsta.

Chestnuts roasted by D_MAN @ 11/04/2005 5:42 PM

And I apologize to the youngster’s because there are some of you who actually watched old tapes or have the DVD collection so you know your stuff, and I’ll admit I stopped watching halfway through some episodes and his prime time movie because the more full body shots they showed of Alf, the more it just reminded me of a creepy bottom heavy man, especially when he walked- but hey I over came that and enjoyed the show, so please just know your stuff. BTW I am not talking about anyone particular here.

Chestnuts roasted by D-MAN @ 11/04/2005 5:55 PM

I second that sentiment D-Man. If you were born in 1989, you have the early-mid 90s at best. Don’t be a poser. There’s nothing more frustrating than some kid calling himself… I don’t know, FraggleMan…and he’s 16 years old.

On a happier note, I waited in line at Wal-Mart today to the tune of Jingle-Bell Rock.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 11/04/2005 6:51 PM

Now I do love Christmas, I really do but waiting in line in Wal-Mart with Jingle Bell Rock is basically my interpretation of Hell. Hey but nice to see that people are in the spirit already!

Chestnuts roasted by D-MAN @ 11/04/2005 6:58 PM

Did anyone see the new DRAWN TOGETHER where they were aping that old muppet sketch where those fucked up muppets would be near a phone, it would ring and they would be all like..Phoonnne…phonnee! yupyupyupyupyupyuypyupyupy brrring brrrring yupyupyuyp phooone!!

That shit was rad! Where was that from and what were they called?

Chestnuts roasted by Goddamit All To Hell @ 11/04/2005 7:03 PM

It was a take off of the aliens (who scared the crap out of me) from Sesame Street. Don’t ask me what I was doing watching Drawn Together…even my devoted love of Adam Carolla doesn’t normally stretch that far. (Anyone catch his last Loveline *sniff*)

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 11/04/2005 7:15 PM

click me to check matt’s evil twin

Chestnuts roasted by gerv @ 11/04/2005 8:01 PM

The aliens were called Yip Yips. Speaking of Drawn Together, in that same episode, there was a Muppet Babies reference with a brief scene with baby Gonzo & Kermit being mauled by dogs, with the dogs tearing out their stuffing. It’s only 3 episodes in, but the 2nd season is 5x better than the first one by a mile.

And I was born in 1987, and I fondly remember watching Muppet Babies as a young kid on CBS and Nickelodeon when they stilled showed Muppet Stuff (Muppet Show, Muppet Babies, Eureka’s Castle, Muppet Matinee, Emmit Otter’s Jugband Christmas, etc). And speaking of which, I’ve also been seeing Muppet Babies merchandise showing in stores like Hot Topic & FYE.

I understand your problem D_Man, and sadly, the most info I know of the 80s came from either here or I Love The 80s. But I know most of my stuff about lots of stuff from then. I’m not looking forward to the day when I see some little middle schooler wearing a Camp Anawana shirt or reminiscing about Tiny Toons or Garfield & Friends.

And to probably contradict myself, Vanilla Coke is gonna be replaced by Black Cherry Vanilla Coke. It’s gonna suck. I’ve tried Black Cherry soda before and it was one of the most horrible things I’ve tasted (and I’ve drank Candy Corn & Caramel Apple soda). I predict the fallout of this will probably be like New Coke. And I was just getting over the loss of Pepsi Blue and now this…

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 11/04/2005 8:22 PM

GRRRAAAAGHHH I went to Target today, and they didn’t have any Jones holiday soda! At least I think they didn’t. No one who worked there knew what I was talking about, and I looked around for a while but saw no sign of them. This same Target had a whole 20 foot wall space for the Halloween sodas… I hope I’m just checking too soon. And I have Choxie to cheer me up.

Chestnuts roasted by HerronBird @ 11/04/2005 8:23 PM

1987 Jesus Christ!!! Just Kidding Invader I was only graduating Pre-Shool then. I don’t think it’s so much an age thing-I mean I love the kids shirt with Chunk in the middle of the Truffle Shuffle and I still get shit from my Dad when I listen to Led Zepplin especially after he’s had a few: “What the Hell do you know about Zepp ya little shit- I used to“… then I get to listen to that crazy shit….I guess what I’m saying is…is..holy shit it’s friday night I should be somewhere drunk by now you all have a great night and be safe!

Chestnuts roasted by D-MAN @ 11/04/2005 9:42 PM

Wow, I was born in 1981. It’s cool to be into it even if you didn’t live through it. The point is, don’t act like you did – Invader, you were good enough to say that most of what you know about the 80s comes from VH1, which is rad. Honesty is a good thing.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 11/04/2005 10:28 PM

Adam left Loveline?!?!?!?!? That has to be a sign of the Apocalypse.

"John, you really should prepare…make arrangements"

"No need. I already know exactly where I’m going"

Sadness :(

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 11/04/2005 10:46 PM

I was born in 1983 and most of the stuff I know about the ’80s comes from VH1. I don’t have any memories at all from before ’89 and I didn’t become pop-culturally aware until the early ’90s. So I’m in a weird position in that articles such as the ones on X-Entertainment make me nostalgic for things I did not think about or had no knowledge of at the time.

Chestnuts roasted by Monte @ 11/04/2005 10:48 PM

Invader, you were good enough to say that most of what you know about the 80s comes from VH1, which is rad. Honesty is a good thing.

Well thank you. And basically every pop culture thing from about ’91+ I’ve been through, so you wont see pretending to What Would You Do, Double Dare, Nick Arcade and Danger Mouse on Nickeldeon, back when it was GOOD!

Speaking of I Love The 80s, 3-D covered both You Can’t Do That on Television AND Mr. Wizard, and they actually had Mr. Wizard on the show. Well, I vaguely remember Mr. Wizard, but I DEFINITELY saw lots of YCDTOTV, vaguely remember anything past the slime and that Epcot circular interior room, the lockers, the death camp, and this onme sketch in an arcade where a little girl was getting kicked out becuase of a No Bear(bare) Feet rule, and she was wearing a big Bear Foot around her neck like a pendant.

And I like to be called Norbs if ya like. :D

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 11/04/2005 10:54 PM

Alright "Norbs", if that is your real name! I don’t really like Thanks Giving. We’re celebrating the Puritans who slaughtered indians and did the whole Salem witch trials thing. To be honest I hate the Pilgrims. I skip Thanks Giving and go right into Christmas mode. Did you know that Christmas started in England and it had absolutely nothing to do with Christ? It was all about drinking, breaking and entering, rape, and liver failer. It got so bad it was outlawed for a time in England. Now I’m off to lick wallpaper.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 11/05/2005 10:15 AM

I’ve tried the Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper and that’s pretty good. Matt better get the Coke products before they’re gone for good.

I was born in 81 and I remember more stuff from the 80s than I do from the 90s. I remember watching the VH1 I Love the 90s and thinking "What the heck was I doing during the 90s? I don’t remember half this stuff." Even with the 80s 3D I remember YCDTOT, Mr. Wizard, Snorks, Freeky Freezies, Micro Machines, Pyramid, PYL, and Love Connection.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 11/05/2005 10:16 AM

Here’s some more stuff about Christmas.
The middle of winter has long been a time of celebration around the world. Centuries before the arrival of the man called Jesus, early Europeans celebrated light and birth in the darkest days of winter. Many peoples rejoiced during the winter solstice, when the worst of the winter was behind them and they could look forward to longer days and extended hours of sunlight.

In Scandinavia, the Norse celebrated Yule from December 21, the winter solstice, through January. In recognition of the return of the sun, fathers and sons would bring home large logs, which they would set on fire. The people would feast until the log burned out, which could take as many as 12 days. The Norse believed that each spark from the fire represented a new pig or calf that would be born during the coming year.

The end of December was a perfect time for celebration in most areas of Europe. At that time of year, most cattle were slaughtered so they would not have to be fed during the winter. For many, it was the only time of year when they had a supply of fresh meat. In addition, most wine and beer made during the year was finally fermented and ready for drinking.

In Germany, people honored the pagan god Oden during the mid-winter holiday. Germans were terrified of Oden, as they believed he made nocturnal flights through the sky to observe his people, and then decide who would prosper or perish. Because of his presence, many people chose to stay inside.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 11/05/2005 10:19 AM

Thanks for the History lesson D. Poop. I think most americans are clued in to the truth behind the original thanksgiving, I mean we all saw that Rosanne episode where they explain the slaughter didn’t we?
But jeez, don’t deny yourself the parade, the charlie brown special, pie, football etc.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 11/05/2005 10:48 AM

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