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10/27/2006: :(

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Discussion Thread: 74 comments

Awwww, you’re making me sad.

Posted by Brandon @ 10/27/2006 9:14 PM EDT

Whatever it is, we’re here for you man. Take all the time you need. (Hopefully not too much time.) We’ll hold down the fort on the blog.

Posted by Rhino @ 10/27/2006 9:30 PM EDT

It’s okay Matt. We are still here. We will be here for you when you come back. Hopefully then I will see a I am gonna Halloween it up double this year, just for you man!!!!!!

Posted by Doc Scarealot @ 10/27/2006 9:37 PM EDT

Saaad!

Posted by Katherine @ 10/27/2006 9:46 PM EDT

Aw, man, it doesn’t have to be that way. C’mon. It’s Friday!
In honor of the displaced entries, how about a poll about the best Halloween costume you never had? Name something even you’re surprised you never dressed up as, for whatever reason.
Watching the Halloween episode of The Monkees where they try to turn Davy into “Dracula reborn”…that would have to be the pussiest incarnation of the Big D ever…remember everybody, TCM is showing horror movies all night!

Posted by squee4242 @ 10/27/2006 9:47 PM EDT

I second Rhino. I hope whatever has you frowning passes sooner than later, not for our sake, but for yours. I know I personally hate it when yucky stuff sticks with me for too long. Much love to ya.

Posted by MissJess @ 10/27/2006 9:49 PM EDT

Aww, not the sad face! *hugs*

Posted by Ryane @ 10/27/2006 9:49 PM EDT

Me, I’m watching Friday the 13th/Final Chapter on AMC, then I’m going to a Halloween-ish Party to kick butt at Beer Pong…good way fight the lonelies away in my book.

I’m surprised I was never a witch for Halloween…I mean, doesn’t every little girl dress up as a witch at least once? Not me…I covered all the other Halloween bases…Bride of Frankie, Zombie, Vampire, She-wolf etc. Never a witch. There’s still time for that I suppose.

Posted by MissJess @ 10/27/2006 10:00 PM EDT

Travel Channel’s got some fun haunted stuff, as per their Friday night usual. Tonight has a special on walk-through haunted houses and the like.

There’s an idea - how many of you lot have walked through some of these haunted houses? Hayrides count, too.

No frowns, chief - it’s too close to Halloween for sadness! Have some ittybitty candy bars, go catch Great Pumpkin on TV (ABC aired it tonight) and relax.

Posted by ChibiSoma @ 10/27/2006 10:01 PM EDT

Whatever it is, mang, we’re all here for you. X-E has cheered me up a number of times, and it’s the least I could do to try to return it.

Posted by Timmy @ 10/27/2006 10:10 PM EDT

Anyone else spending their Halloween weekend in a former insane asylum?

Posted by Retro Playback @ 10/27/2006 10:23 PM EDT

I’ve always wanted to dress up as Crow from MST3K. I’m just not skinny enough…

Posted by Rhino @ 10/27/2006 10:27 PM EDT

I tried to be a 50s sock-hop girl in a poodle skirt in fifth grade. I did NOT (and do not) have the body to pull off poodle skirts. I ended up switching to a cowgirl instead.

Oh, poor Matt! I hope you’re ok. You know we’re all here…and Halloween’s almost here. Rejoyce and slurp your Pitch Black Icee!

Posted by starwenn @ 10/27/2006 10:42 PM EDT

Your life has been so hard
It’s dried up angels that can’t keep guard
I’m trying to reach your hand
But I’m on fire
I never meant to fade… away
Stay with me
Stop pretending when they say that you’re nothing

Are you sad?
Are you holding yourself?
Are you locked in your room?
You shouldn’t be..

I’m drowning inside your head
Help me to answer
Help understand
Why it’s been so long since we talked like friends
Please, forgive me,
I’m just a man
Whose made mistakes

Stop pretending when they say you’re nothing

Are you sad?
Are you holding yourself?
Are you locked in your room?
You shouldn’t be…

Posted by OLP via K- @ 10/27/2006 10:43 PM EDT

Or, as R.E.M. put it:

Everybody hurts
Sometimes
So hold on

Posted by Rhino @ 10/27/2006 10:48 PM EDT

It’s ok Matt, you don’t have to amuse us. This site is supposed to be for you not for us!

Posted by Goob @ 10/27/2006 10:49 PM EDT

I hope you’re okay!
Hopefully, whatever is making you sad is resolved soon. Not for us, but for you.

Posted by Christine @ 10/27/2006 10:57 PM EDT

aww we love ya.

Posted by lindsay @ 10/27/2006 11:19 PM EDT

i always wanted to be a killer clown but never got around to it

matt there ain’t nothin a bottle of maddog and a 20 sack can’t fix, but i feel your pain i got the halloween blues. it sucks it’s almost over this year hasn’t been too festive

Posted by drbong @ 10/27/2006 11:21 PM EDT

Hope you feel better soon, Matt!

Posted by JLAJRC @ 10/27/2006 11:35 PM EDT

Posted by Rainbowfeet @ 10/27/2006 11:42 PM EDT

Posted by Rainbowfeet @ 10/27/2006 11:48 PM EDT

Turn that frown upside down buddy!

Posted by Tommy @ 10/27/2006 11:48 PM EDT

Matty boy, feel better. I was thinking about you this week when I was in Atlantic City screwing around on Lodgenet.

Posted by Mike the Great @ 10/27/2006 11:49 PM EDT

I hope the sad face is for something that will pass. I think this is a good opportunity to re-visit past years’ countdowns that aren’t so fresh in my memory. Happy Halloween weekend to all!

Posted by kb @ 10/27/2006 11:50 PM EDT

Aww, cheer up Matt. Just remember that this is one of the best times of the year. That might cheer you up a bit.
Whatever it is it must have been pretty bad to prevent you from posting these past few days, especially so close to Halloween.

But dont worry about teh updates. Whatevers going on in your life comes first, and hopefully speaking for everyone, we understand that.
Hope you feel better.

Posted by Chris @ 10/27/2006 11:53 PM EDT

So let me kick this off by telling you what I’m not doing.

I’m not watching a free showing of Dead Man’s Chest with all of my friends plus several hundred other college students, and I’m not enjoying the twenty-five cent concessions offered there.

This is because I spent the last seven hours at what was supposed to be a five hour shift at a second job I’ve been forced to take at Hasting’s, during the busiest shift of the busiest day of the week in movie rental retail hell. I was asked to come in early to help with a rush, which turned into a lull by the time I’d kicked my friends out of the apartment, gotten my serf collar on, and driven across town. I was kept late because my register came up forty bucks short, and the Hastings policy is to discourage theft by long, drawn out, humiliating auditing sessions at the end of every shift.

So after I finally escaped, I was going to drive to campus and drop in on the last hour of the movie, maybe arrange something with my friends afterwards. I knew where they were sitting, after all.

Turns out they lock the auditorium door after an hour or so.

So I come back to the apartment and got pretty enthusiastic about making a grilled cheese sandwich. Seeing as how it’s the first food I’ve had since noon, it seems like a pretty good thing. Of course, due to some grave miscalculation involving time and temperature, I manage to burn one side of my sandwich black.

So I’m sitting here with my scorched, carbon-bitter sandwich that will not scrape no matter how furiously I wield my butter knife of vengeance. If my outlook on life were to be summed up in a photograph, it would be a fuzzy, badly-rendered daguerreotype which has been sitting outside in the rain all afternoon on lumpy pavement, depicting a toddler in a second-hand sailor suit who is crying because he has just fallen down, skinning his knee and dropping his ice cream cone over the aft railing of the Hindenberg.

So I come to XE for the first time in many weeks, hoping to draw some form of raw joy from this font of zany good-natured fun, and I find this rather distressing blog post.

So thank god for that peculiarly human shift in perspective that kicks in at times like these, allowing you to see yourself as you must look from outside, protuding lower lip, burnt sandwich, dinged-up dignity and all…and grin uncontrollably until your cheeks cramp up.

So Matt, if you’re having a rotten day too, try and go for that feeling. It’s kind of nice.

Posted by Jedoc @ 10/27/2006 11:53 PM EDT

Hey buddy. I hope it’s nothing serious. We love ya pal. Maybe you can pop in a DVD of Great Pumpkin. I missed it on TV.

Come back when you’re ready.

Posted by Terror Claws Cole @ 10/27/2006 11:56 PM EDT

Wow. I am actually concerned here. I hope everything is ok Matt. This is the one place where everyone gets along. And this site has the uncanny ability to make me remember some of the things I have forgotten. So Matt, for what it is worth…thanks.

Posted by 9LINE @ 10/28/2006 12:08 AM EDT

Matt, if it makes you feel better, I’ve had a pretty crappy day, too….And coming to this blog always helps me with that…So feel better knowing you’ve made the world a better place for some people….

Posted by Cameron T. @ 10/28/2006 12:08 AM EDT

hey matt. i know what it’s like. but things will get better.

Posted by matty @ 10/28/2006 12:09 AM EDT

Posted by jazzy @ 10/28/2006 12:25 AM EDT

its the worst, an odd sinking feeling in your gut and a pain that is impossible to ever explain to anyone. You finally think the worlds done fucking you, but you were wrong. Plus this time the world decided it wasnt going to use vaseline. So you sink, and you just keep sinking. You’re tired of the bullshit but it will get better eventually. right?

Posted by semaj @ 10/28/2006 1:05 AM EDT

Matt: I’m depressed right now as well–but it’s because I can’t find a job. YOU, my friend, are at Nickelodeon. You’re already out of the hole I can’t dig out of, and you’re building experience and networks that’ll keep you out. Think of that…and be grateful for your current life.

Posted by Mars @ 10/28/2006 1:13 AM EDT

TIME FOR AN UPDATE MOTHA FUCKAAAA

Posted by Count Chocula @ 10/28/2006 1:13 AM EDT

You also have a girlfriend. Not everybody has one of those either.

All in all you should be on cloud 9.

Posted by Mars @ 10/28/2006 1:15 AM EDT

Feel better, Matt!

Posted by Spoodles @ 10/28/2006 1:32 AM EDT

awww I don’t think it’s anything really serious you guys. I doubt anyone would respond to a big tragedy in their life by posting “:(” on their weblog. He’s probably just upset over not having updated recently.

Posted by laa @ 10/28/2006 1:54 AM EDT

Look at this community you’ve created Matt! We all wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you.

Posted by Tommy @ 10/28/2006 2:04 AM EDT

I’ve got nothing. Except for this. Why in the hell of fury is Jaws the number one scariest moment on that Bravo channel count down. Seriously. Is a shark scary. Maybe, if I’m wading around a circle of chum. I haven’t done that lately, so I’m going to vote for no. I was sooooooo disappointed with that stupid number one.

Give thoughts if you all please, but I just wanted to voice my opinion on my favorite site ever.

Brad

Posted by okcmallrat @ 10/28/2006 2:16 AM EDT

long time reader, first time writer.

its ok dude, just take your time.

Posted by paolo @ 10/28/2006 2:25 AM EDT

I just came from a club party, non-H’Ween themed. Woo.

And I actually got to see “Great Pumpkin” this year! It was as great as it ever was. At the end, did anyone catch the promo for the Thanksgiving special AND a new one called “He’s A Bully, Charlie Brown!” Dear. God. You could hook up electrodes to Charles Schultz’s grave and it could power this site for eternity.

Posted by Invader Norbert @ 10/28/2006 2:33 AM EDT

Whoa, sorry about that up there.
What I meant to say was, we love you, Matt! I hope that things are okay- don’t worry about us, we’ll still be here. Feel better!

(The blog hates me- every 15 seconds, my butt. Sorry if you get this multiple times. I don’t know what is going on.)

Posted by Rainbowfeet @ 10/28/2006 2:36 AM EDT

I agree, okcmallrat. Nature is not allowed to be high up on the scary list.

And Matt, if this is about shame over not having a Halloween Countdown entry on time, don’t fretâ€”leave all the fretting to me, after having been gone for months and having tons of material to catch up on! Damn you prolific writers that I love! :\

Posted by Venison @ 10/28/2006 2:37 AM EDT

I heart XE and Matt. about the third time I’ve posted here.

back to best costume you’ve never had: for the life of me, I can’t understand why I’ve never been a Ghostbuster. the Real Ghostbusters is undoubtedly my favorite cartoon ever, one of my favorite shows, and a major part of my entire childhood. GB is my favorite movie, and I gather up anything GB I can. but never been a ghostbuster. and I’m not paying the $40 for the cheap ass costume with the (admittedly cool) blow up proton pack. can’t bring myself to pay that for the cheapest material pantssuit ever. but yes, all hail Ghostbusters, but more importnantly XE and Matt

Posted by dang lad - the second danimal @ 10/28/2006 3:11 AM EDT

Posted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 10/28/2006 3:42 AM EDT

mallrat, those Bravo countdowns are always lame even compared to other crappy countdowns. During the “funniest moments” special, it was blatantly obvious that they were just using whatever bits they could license on the cheap. I’d imagine they did the same for the scary moments.
I was big into mermaids as a kid, but I never was one for Halloween. No clue why…never was Alice either, though I was Pippi Longstockings at least twice.

Posted by squee4242 @ 10/28/2006 5:23 AM EDT

Hope things get better.

Posted by MDH1980 @ 10/28/2006 6:22 AM EDT

ha jaws number one scary movie, that’s crazy.. yo this nite fuckin sucked! i fuckin dropped my psp right on the power button and now it won’t come on.. and my ex texted me for 45 minutes just to tell me she was goin to some party.. BITCH!

Posted by drbong @ 10/28/2006 8:08 AM EDT

See, last post I had a feeling something was wrong. I hope no one pooped in your cornflakes Matt. Keep your head up, and take notes, so you can vent it all in a new post when you are ready!!

Posted by Old E @ 10/28/2006 8:23 AM EDT

Hope you had a long, cathartic cry or something.

Posted by Jessica Marie @ 10/28/2006 9:14 AM EDT

I am in a similar mood- I drove 5 hours to Quebec and paid $3,000 for a 1998 Intrepid (to replace my car that was smashed in my parking lot while I was sleeping). After buying it, I began driving back home and MY NEW CAR BROKE DOWN ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AFTER AN HOUR OF DRIVING! I JUST BOUGHT IT THAT MORNING! So, I walked about 3 KMs before being picked up by a school bus (I felt like the principal in Ferris Beuller) and taken to a gas station. I waited there an hour for my parents, then had to borrow their car to get home…

This delayed me for 4 hours total. At least the garage I bought the car from towed it for free. I started out AGAIN at 9PM, this time with my parent’s car. I was pretty sleepy, and speeding a little since I wanted to get home, since I had to work at 8AM the next day and….I GET PULLED OVER FOR SPEEDING FOR THE 1ST TIME IN MY LIFE! I couldn’t cut a break. This was possibly the worst day of my life. So, I spent $3,000 on a broken car, and then got a $168 ticket. AND, I only got home at 3:30 AM…so I called in sick to work, and took the day off just to make myself feel better.

So, cheer up Matt! We all have shitty days, and we’re all pulling for ya.

Posted by Muppet Baby @ 10/28/2006 9:23 AM EDT

Hang in there, Matt. We love ya!

Posted by Andy @ 10/28/2006 10:19 AM EDT

That settles it. Let’s hop on google maps, find a small pub in the area, and replace the Saturday Night Thread with the Saturday Night Morose Drinking Binge. And I know there’s several XErs who don’t drink, but you can cheer yourselves up by throwing bar peanuts at the drunks. Because if there are two things drunks lack, it is short-term memory and spatial awareness. You can hit them on the back of the neck with a peanut every five seconds, and you will get the exact same response every time. It’s like a reset button for booze hounds.

Posted by Jedoc @ 10/28/2006 10:56 AM EDT

I haven’t been posting much lately, but in times like these I feel like I have to pitch in and do my part.

When I was about 11 or so my best friend offered to let me wear her old cheerleader outfit as a costume, but I turned it down. The only reason it would have been considered a costume on me is because I wasn’t a cheerleader. Seeing girls in that part of the county wearing that exact outfit wasn’t exactly rare, so I didn’t feel like it made a very impressive costume. Still, had I worn it, it would have been the most authentic costume I had ever worn.

Posted by Lori @ 10/28/2006 11:31 AM EDT

Posted by Cooked Feet @ 10/28/2006 11:54 AM EDT

I don’t know what’s going on, but I hope things get better soon!

Posted by Citra @ 10/28/2006 12:33 PM EDT

Hope everything works out, Matt. Watch some crappy horror movies and “The Great Pumpkin” — if that doesn’t cheer you up, nothing will.

All of the best Halloween costumes I’ve never done are geek things that I think no one else will get. I’ve always wanted to put on a gas mask, trench coat and fedora and go as the Golden Age Sandman, but I only know like three other people in my circle of friends who would have the foggiest idea who I was supposed to be. And explaining a costume is like explaining a joke: no matter how good it is, by the time you finish the explanation, it feels lame.

Posted by Blake @ 10/28/2006 12:33 PM EDT

Creature from the Black Lagoon is on AMC right now.

Posted by Katherine @ 10/28/2006 1:08 PM EDT

Matt! We love you!

Posted by Hey I'm Jeff @ 10/28/2006 1:33 PM EDT

No wait I’m confused…

Posted by Darth Poop @ 10/28/2006 1:51 PM EDT

Usually Im notn one to complain but heres just a smidgen of things that are eating away at me right now.

Ive been sick since last year and no oone knows whats wrong with me despite having seen about two dozen doctors at this point. I was told yesterday that its likely I have some sort of wasting disease (where you waste til you die) but they still have no idea what. Im down to 95 lbs and cant keep that steady to save my life (literally). I have two little girls and cannot even lift my 3mo old or take care of her much at all really. The litany of horrible things goes on and on but even as bad of a shape I am in, others are worse. My grandmother fell yesterday and cracked her head open and doesnt even know who anyone is anymore. My family lives on the opposite side of the country and Im too oweak to travel to stay with them or see them.

I was supposed to go to a Halloween party but my friends called and said it was too much trouble to bring me and they are probably right. So ah well. I just hope I can make it to the end of the year. Anything beyond that will be a great blessing indeed.

So whatever is wrong please cheer up. X-E is one of teh few highlights of my day and reading everyones posts. Atleast for a little while I can pretend nothing is realy that wrong and feel normal and OK for a bit. Thanks for that.

Many hugs.

Posted by kittygirl @ 10/28/2006 2:16 PM EDT

If I may say something Kittygirl, whether it is “too much trouble” or not thats a pretty lame thing to have happened from your so called friends. Gah, this whole thing is bumming me out. I was actually laying in bed hoping Matt is ok, which I must admit “laying in bed thinking of a webmaster” is now something I can scratch of my lifes to do list. Here we are at the pinnacle of our first holiday of the season and everyone is so blah. Seems to me that a marathon of Ghostbusters 1 and 2 is just waht the doc ordered. Who’s with me?

Posted by 9LINE dressed as a homicidal maniac @ 10/28/2006 2:55 PM EDT

On second thought Kitty, they should bring the party to you. Sorta like a real life Halloween episode of some kind of sitcom. But that’s just me being me.

Posted by 9LINE dressed as a homicidal maniac @ 10/28/2006 2:57 PM EDT

Thanx 9line… its just a real bummer because I already had costumes ready and everything and then they call to rain on my parade. Oh well! On HDay I am still going to wear my costume even if its just to sit on the couch and watch a spooky movie. My friends are pretty self centered so its no surprise. One has no job and is not going to school but refuses to help me out with my daughter or anything cos shes too busy playing WOW all day long in her moms basement. She has raids scheduled each and every day and has no time for anything else.

cmon everyone, lets get psyched for Halloween.. and if not that.. I mean, FFXII is out the same day so theres something to look forward to either way.

Posted by kittygirl @ 10/28/2006 3:30 PM EDT

Wow, this IS like a sitcom holiday special, except more Christmas than Halloween, and without the embarrassing celebrity cameos.

What we need is a Halloween miracle!

Posted by AKA Matt @ 10/28/2006 3:34 PM EDT

Matt! What’s wrong? We love you! Whatever it is, it’ll be okay!

Posted by Mal @ 10/28/2006 3:44 PM EDT

kittygirl, what had you been doing before you started to get sick? I once read a story in Reader’s Digest about a woman who became seriously ill, and her doctors could never figure out why. Later, when it was discovered that she had been remodelling her(very old)house, and exposure to the old materials had caused her to contract metal poisoning. I say this just so you might consider any potential causes for your illness.
As for Matt, I hope everything is okay. I know he had promised to start updating daily until Halloween, so I was surprised that he missed so many days.

Posted by Thomas @ 10/28/2006 3:45 PM EDT

Many wishes, good vibes, prayers, and Karma to you, kittygirl. And a cauldron full of good tidings for the rest of you bums too!

Now, for the edification/embarrassment of my fellow posters, I shall perform the ancient candy corn dance. Which, if done under a full moon in a circle of dried apple heads, summons the spirit of Vincent Price, so he can recite lines from his stint on The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo. After that, he pops a cap in your ass.

And-a one, and-a two……

Posted by kingklash @ 10/28/2006 3:56 PM EDT

I have come to cheer you all up! (or not? 0 either way I come with a gift of of a bunch of old cereal commercials!

click my name for the gift from me to you!

Posted by IHAQ @ 10/28/2006 4:31 PM EDT

We wish you the best Matt, hope things better. You give us all so much, I wish there was something that we could do for you…

Posted by Joker @ 10/28/2006 4:38 PM EDT

My heart goes out to you, Kitty Girl. To quote Billie Joe “it’s not over til you’re underground, it’s not over before it’s too late”

Kris Roe:

I wish there was something i could say
To erase each and every page that you’ve been through
Even though its not my place to save you

I appreciate but can’t accept this thank-you note
Thats sealed with your last breath
I won’t stand aside and listen to you give up

If you’ll just hold on for one more second
Just hold on to what you have
If you’ll just hold on, just hold on
You will wake up tommorrow

These arms remain stretched out to you
Maybe someday you’ll accept them
Or maybe its too late to save a young girl’s heart that’s long stopped beating

Wake up, wake up you’ve gotta believe
Wake up, wake up you cant give up
Time keeps going on without us
Long after we’re dead and gone

Gerard Way:

Turn away…
If you could get me a drink
Of water cause my lips are chapped and faded
Call my aunt marie
Help her gather all my things
And bury me in all my favorite colors,
My sisters and my brothers, still,
I will not kiss you,

Cause the hardest part of this is leaving you…

Now turn away…
Cause I’m awful just to see
Cause all my hair’s abandoned all my body,
All my agony,
Know that I will never marry,
Baby, I’m just soggy from the chemo,
But counting down the days to go.
IT JUST AIN’T LIVING

And I just hope you know,
That if you say,
Good-bye today,
I’d ask you to be true,

Cause the hardest part of this is leaving you…

Posted by To Anyone Who Has or Will Be Leaving Us Too Soon @ 10/28/2006 7:48 PM EDT

Why do I feel all this sadness deeply inside my soul’s bitter darkness?

Posted by yelinna @ 10/28/2006 8:17 PM EDT

Sad?! A young gent with as many obviously rabid fans as you have?! Hm. Perhaps you haven’t chosen the correct liquor and drugs to remedy your situation. Temporary fixes can be wonderful, indeed.

Posted by PerfectPrice @ 10/31/2006 7:09 AM EST

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