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12/21/2006: Five Very Christmassy Things.

To those who graciously fed my greed by buying me stuff from Amazon, please keep an eye out for thank you cards in the mail. (This assumes that what you sent me came with a return address, and most did.) They probably won’t arrive until after Christmas, or maybe not at all if the post office questions my very terrorist-like handwriting. I’ll hold off on saying more until we get to the Christmas Fallout post.

Today marks an incredible mission for me: I need to get a few Advent Calendar entries in the can, yip yip, lest I get to the point where I’m only “up to date” on Christmas Eve and have to pull a “I’m not writing the finale until after Christmas, so there” kind of deal. This should be fun. Each Advent entry is the product of between 125-200 shots taken (seriously), so I expect my camera to die and for someone to have to buy me that from Amazon, too.

Today also marks that special time of year when my brain explodes because it’s finally processing that I’ll never get to write about all the Christmas stuff I picked up in time for, you know, Christmas. It’s with that fear that I’m going to borrow a relic from Thanksgiving and provide you with a CORNUCOPIA (!!!) of Christmas crap — five different items that make me wanna hum “Silver Bells” while doodling wreaths on the bare walls in furniture catalogs. Let’s start with…hmmm…let’s start with mistletoe.

REAL MISTLETOE IN A BAG: One of the tree yards we hit over the weekend sold these. They’re pretty neat. The clump of mistletoe with faux berries comes polybagged with a bunch of mistletoe factoids printed on the back of the package. Whereas I once only considered mistletoe as some happenstance excuse to tongue the nearest body, now I know that it’s in fact an ancient symbol of whatever the fuck, and that Druids that lived during prehistoric times thought it was sacred shit planted by the gods. No, really. The pack-back blurb lost me at the second paragraph, though. That’s what happens when you start your second paragraphs with, “It all started with a goddess called Frigga.” Frigga please.

The plant is preserved, meaning its dead but will never look any more dead than it looks right now — and it don’t look too dead. Brittle as hell, though. The fake berries cheapen the whole deal, and I’m wondering why they couldn’t just preserve berries too. Maybe berries are harder to preserve? Can anyone tell me? Are berries unpreservable?

CHRISTMAS STORY LEG LAMP: A friend bought me this for Christmas, evidently because he wanted to stay my friend through good times and through bad. I’ve very foolishly never bothered to pick one of these up before; they’ve been produced and sold through the toy wizards at NECA for a few years now. My friend wasn’t a good enough friend to spend the $200+ on a full-sized leg lamp (I don’t have any friends that good enough), but this tabletop variety is just aces. It’s my minor award.

Everything is just as it should be. Aside from the normal lightbulb that screws into the normal lightbulb spot, there’s a smaller bulb hidden in the electric sex that provides the leg with its own illumination. The shade is top notch, with all the right colors and frills, and the thing even has that same weird slant as the one seen in A Christmas Story. I always end up with a few Christmas decorations that become year-round decorations — this is one of them. It will shine the pages of my late night books well into August. Then the bulbs will blow out and I’ll never remember to buy them again because who the hell remembers to pick up 40 watt lightbulbs?

EMPEROR PALPATINE TREE ORNAMENT: The continuing saga of wacky Star Wars holiday decorations…uh, continues. This Palpatine tree ornament may just be a repackaged Darth Sidious ornament, but no matter, they’re the (SPOILERS!) same guy. Either way, Palpatine as a Christmas tree ornament is both very right and very wrong, and this one came my way in a big window box for around four bucks. It’s the ugliest piece of shit ornament I’ve ever seen, but it still looks like Palpatine enough for me to want to run to my ornamentless tree and turn it into a one-ornament tree. Campy as it may have been, I would’ve liked to see some holiday theming here. Maybe a Santa hat would’ve been too much, but with the way Palpie is posed, perhaps some snow mittens with burns around the figures from all the Force lightning?

JONES SODA SUGAR PLUM SODA: I’ve been seriously behind on covering Jones Soda’s holiday exploits, mainly because I grew tired of writing “this tastes kinda good” and “this tastes like yer uncle’s ass juice in a bottle haaaa.” I’m still forever impressed by what the company does. After another rockin’ Holiday Pack (this time, the piÃ¨ce de rÃ©sistance was antacid flavored soda), Jones unleashed a couple of Christmas specific beverages meant to make us Catholics feel more catered to than everyone else.

Sadly, I’ve only found Sugar Plum Soda so far. It’s lilac hue reminds me of one of my many unfortunate high school dye jobs, and as for the taste, let’s say…GRAPE. Not “hideous grape” — not the kind of grape I usually rally against, but rather a grape closer to a grape Fla-Vor-Ice, which as everyone knows tastes nothing like grape. No, I think I’d put this one under the general umbrella of “purple stuff.” It’s what the fridge-raiding kid passed on in that old Sunny D commercial. We finally know!

X-MAS TREE BUTTER SCULPTURE: Yeah, I had to buy this. Not much to say — it’s a slab of butter shaped like a Christmas tree. And I mean, really shaped like a Christmas tree — ornaments and all. I always buy shit like this with grand visions of having novelty-driven dinner parties, but then I remember that I have like six friends and all they want to do is drink. I think I need to take up a secret life as a transsexual housewife who plans brouhahas for her husband’s workerbees. Maybe then I’ll have just cause for butter shaped like a Christmas tree being in my refrigerator.

They probably don’t include the berries because those are the poison part and they don’t want to be sued for bringing a little holiday glee that just happened to axe the cat/dog/child of the person who bought it ’cause said person was too stupid to keep it out of their reach.

Oh you’re such a liar, Matt. You know you wanna get in an Adora and Madame Razz sandwich.

Don’t EVER show us the process of the Advent Calendar stories. EVER. They are too good and if it’s revealed, they won’t be the same! Are you going to eat that butter tree?

You know, that Palpatine could double as a Pope ornament, that might be a little more Christmassie!

I have to say, there really is nothing that can’t be brought out for the holidays (I personally have a shark and a non-Lion King hyena ornament, so there you go).

Have to say about the mistletoe–they should make up their minds. Druids were some sort of Celtic thing (British Isles) while Frigga was a Norse/Viking goddess. Actually, the Norse one is more likely, since we don’t actually know anything about Druids, except that the Romans didn’t like them.
I feel better now–got to use some useless knowledge at 7:30 in the morning!

Real Mistletoe is kind of weird looking up close…Do those berries glow in the dark? They look like they would.

Matt if you want me to send you a 4-pack of Jones Egg Nog soda, there’s a rack full of them here at Target..

It’s the only other Christmas themed soda I’ve seen (save for the holiday dinner/dessert packs).

Holy creepy ornaments, Batman! I too, have been getting the Star Wars Christmas ornaments these past years. Last year it was a pack of 5 semi-small vehicles. This year, it was Hallmarks Max Rebo band. Granted they are old, but, I got them for eight bucks on eBay!

Bagged real mistletoe smells like catfood. I’m surprised that you didn’t mention it.

Christmas Tree butter? Man, we ain’t got anything that cool out here in the Bay Area. California sucks, sometimes.

Having just forced myself to eat some cereal even though I’m not hungry, that butter tree comes close to making me gag. *kak* (me gaggin).

Mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it…but a kiss can be even deadlier if you mean it.

I am completely fascinated by that butter tree. It seems like it would be incredibly difficult to use. Maybe you’d start slicing pats off of the top(?). I can’t believe how much thought I’m giving to this.

Only one thing in the world could drag me away from the soft glow of electric sex gleaming on Matt’s end table.

man, that butter is just odd. Even if you were haveing everybody in your neighborhood over for a chrismas party, I don’t think you could get rid of that entire tree in one night. It’s just an impossibility. But it’s also the exact same sort of thing I’d buy with dilusions of granduere, then never use, and end up throwing away and being pissed at myself and vowing never to buy something like that again.

Since when is Christmas only a Catholic holiday? Last time I checked, Protestants celebrated too :p

I almost bought that sugar plum soda yesterday, but then I remembered I’d never eaten a “sugar plum” or anything meant to taste like one, so it was probably a bad idea.

On the agenda for today: Confuse the people at the post office by mailing Christmas gifts to Singapore, then come home and bake cookies while watching holiday cartoons. I love Christmas.

Ahhh, Keller’s butter. I still have one of their Thanksgiving Butter Turkeys in the fridge, and their Easter Butter Lamb is very nice as well. I like it when butter comes in a shape that isn’t a stick or a tub.

Slightly kinda pissed right now, as it’s gift day at the office. Last year I scored an iPod shuffle and $75 in gift cards. This year my attorneys got wise and all went in on a gift together, thus defying my divide-and-conquer tactics. I got a Home Depot gift card of undetermined amount — and HD is one of the chains that doesn’t let you call and get a balance on the card, you have to bring the actual card to the store to check. F*ckers. I was so looking forward to replacing the iPod with something with a screen. On the other hand though, it’s probably enough to get that Wagner Power Painter sprayer I’ve been after since I moved into the new house. Too bad I already painted the black bedroom.

Sorry to e bringing up old blog stuff, but I had my company Christmas party last night and haven’t been able to post…hangovers suck…

That’s a pretty cool Cullen story. I know he holds Prime very dear to him, as I’ve read in many interviews and heard from people that have been to various Botcons. That’s a good take on the whole new movie love/hate debate.

I haven’t been a huge fan of anything of the movie, especially the production team put together to make it, but I am going to try and give it a chance. I still hate the designs. They are going to look like morphing metal bots than the traditional Transformers we’re used to. Especially since it seems everything from their weapons to their heads actually transform from their bodies, but I’m hoping they give them character equal to what the various toons, and comics have given us.

Yeah, Murphy is an immature unprofessional turd, and I really hope Hasbro reconsiders doing business with him next time around. He tends to isnult people who don’t love everything he does and derides the fandom whenever he can in the most childish ways. And Bay? Well, like someone else asked, why is he still legally allowed to make movies?

I’m jsut hoping this thing doesn’t bomb like the 86 flick or it’s back to obscurity for the franchise I think.

Oh, and no one has ever kissed me under the mistletoe. That’s why I get for being an ugly kid…
=(

I have become addicted to the Advent calendar, please and need my fix soon! But if you must take your time I understand.

The leg lamp isn’t so “electric sex” when you cut it off right above the knee. Looks like someone took my grandfather’s prosthetic leg and feminized it as a joke.

I have enough friends to eat the butter tree! Okay, I only have like six, too, but they don’t drink, they eat. They eat A LOT. And I am the only one who cooks.

Is there any chance of a three-way between Mare, Mare II, and Claire in the future of the Advent Calender? I’m lonely and enjoy making my toys make out with eachother

I have to say Matt, I can’t imagine how much work it is to put these things together, but the end result is fantastic.

in addition to the Egg Nog(g?) Soda, which fistpittingnork mentioned, there’s also Candy Cane Soda. I’ve got four-packs of both, along with the Sugarplum Soda. I’ve only tasted the Candy Cane Soda, and it’s pretty lame. not terrible, but not terribly candy-cane-ish, either.
i guess my target orders all the jones sodas, cause they still have the Holiday Pack, and The dessert pack for $10, all the christmas flavors, and they even had the halloween ones.

So I am crossing my fingers for Claire to have had a serious revelation while encased/frozen in “Carbon-ice” (I know, I kill me too) and her awesome special effect hand bolt ray things are going to be directed at Mare II in an attempt to stop her evil reign from the get go. Is this too much to hope for so close to Christmas??? A Mare in pink is evil enough, we can’t take much more.

Matt - while I do wonder about the behind the scenes magic of the AC it would kill me to have it ruined with a peek. Plus at the tender age of 50 (in lung years) it might be your undoing.

Mystie - When you have the cinnamon party make sure they use cinnamon sugar so you get a good exfoliation out of it and not just wierd gooey paste. May as well take advantage of a good thing and have smooth pretty smelling skin when it is all said and done!

I wasn’t even aware of the Candy Cane soda… Our Target also carried the Halloween flavors. Some like Dracula Blood or something like that with clever “ghoulish” names all the way to Candy Corn soda and stuff like that. Never tried the candy corn… Then again I haven’t even tried the egg nog or sugar plum either. Only the 5 in the 2005 Holiday Pack which were more disgusting than Matt’s article on the Hungryman XXL frozen breakfast.

I still have my 2005 Holiday Pack sitting on top of my bookshelf. It’s a year-round decoration.

I so want that dessert pack, but I couldn’t justify the purchase after buying a PS2 and a whole crapload of other crap. And crap.

I’ve only been able to find SugarPlum too

But I finished the whole case. It’s really quite good ice-cold.

Mistletoe is actually a parasite plant; it will kill a tree if it grows thick enough. Not many people know that….or choose not to know, ‘cuz it’s not that romantic.

oh MANNN. i guess due to matt’s comment about how he wants to host more parties, i had a dream last night where he held a XE party at his apartment. it was so awesome. it was like only for blog posters. i hung out with mystie for a while and i gave matt a tetris watch for christmas and he got pretty pumped about it. it was awesome!!

My best friend grabbed one of Jones packs, lucky devil. I couldn’t find any of them at the Target in Deptford. She said the Sweet Potato Casserole had too much marshmallow flavor and a nasty diet soda-esque aftertaste, but gave high marks to Banana Cream Pie.

I see the various Keller’s butter sculptures at work every year, and the Christmas tree is a lulu, bigger than the turkey and even the Easter lamb. Unfortunatly, I don’t even have six friends to feed it to, drunk or otherwise.

I actually bought that very same mistletoe from a small display on the customer service desk at work, though it just in a bag with nothing on the back, I believe, or at least I wasn’t really paying attention to the back. It’s exactly what Matt says - dried, shedding leaves, fake berries. It does look nice, though, and I’ve always wanted mistletoe, one of the few general Christmas decorations I didn’t own. Not that it matters, since I don’t have a boyfriend or hold parties, but maybe someone else can kiss in my door.

Oddly enough, considering my fondness for “Star Wars,” I don’t own any holiday-related “Star Wars” stuff. Not even a bootleg of that ridiculous special. Some things just don’t mix, no matter what the marketing wizards want us to think. And that Palapatine ornament IS ugly.

And the Advent Calender, all I can say is…whoa. That’s one pissed Claire, not that I can blame her, having been stuck in ice for a while. This is going to be one HELL of a Christmas!

Hell, I still have both of my 2005 Holiday Packs still unopened (not to mention the Valentine’s Day one)

The only thing I hate about Christmas is knowing that the Advent Calendar will be done. I am so loving it - Matt, you rock. You rock my world.

And after catching up on comments from the last entry, I want to smack my forehead once again for not previewing my posts. I MEANT to say “I’d listen to a band called “Knacks Goes Emo”, not “Em”.

I love that Emperor Palpatine ornament. It seems you can also light it for a b-day cake and use its’ ass to erase a misspelled word from a mechanical pencil. By the way a ROTJ eraser will make a pencil box smell reeeeaaaal good. Like berries.

I am not brave enough to try any of the oddly flavored sodas alone. A local store near me does carry the holiday pack, but, I think it’s an older one. It has the salmon flavored soda (gag!) in it. I did by some Jones’ root beer. I don’t much care for it, though. It tasted more like cream soda than anything.

I’ve been wondering, and it may have been answered in previous years blogs, but what does Matt do with all the stuff that comes out of the Calendars?

I’m going to assume his girl would not want all that stuff lying around the home, especially 5 years worth….

Heeeeey! I’ve sent Matt many a birthday gift and never gotten a thank-you card! Clearly, the Christmas-y feelings of gratitude wear off by February…

I mentioned to a friend of mine I had no idea what real mistletoe looked like so he contacted someone in Oregon and had them send me a sprig. If only he had waited a week, I could’ve told him I saw a pic on this site!

i am jealous of kuse and company…i live in friggin new york and havnt had a snow flake yet this year!!! This is a terrible injustice, and the advent calender brought it all rushing back. damn you legos with snow!

No snow here in PA, either. Though it’s supposed to rain this week. Seriously, if it’s raining instead of snowing over Christmas, I’m gonna kick Santa in the balls.

The only thing that could possibly cast a pall over my holiday is if the Peanut Mill flares up again. The fire has been out for a while, but the nuts still smolder. Peanut oil must be a real bitch to put out.

Man that sucks, in Oklahoma WE’RE usually the ones bitching about not having snow yet.. Though we’ve only had it once and our chances of a white Christmas are non-existant.

Well there’s a blizzard making it’s way across the Midwest, hopefully it’ll reach you guys in and near New England for Christmas!

As for the V-Day Jones pack, I already had mine and sucked that stuff down. My holiday pack for ‘05 had the worst flavor I’ve ever seen, the brussels sprouts soda… The only two foods to ever make me gag are that soda and the Jelly Belly Bertie’s Bots “Earthworm” flavored jelly beans, tastes like complete goat balls.

That christmas tree butter sculpture is white trash. No offense to Matt for buying it I am just sayin I can see wal-mart selling that to hillbillies.

Well, my internet got cut off on the end of november (a couple of days after thanksgiving, worst thanksgiving ever don’t even ask) and so I don’t really have any christmas exposure, the store isn’t enough, i barely have any christmas shows on my computer, christmas songs, things of that nature (i was going to watch the garfield christmas via youtube but this computer I am using now has dialup on it so i am not even going to try) and I am kicking myself for not downloading the x-entertainment christmas jukebox before the internet got cut off. Even though like lots of people I wait until thanksgiving to get into the spirit i still wanted to put it off then.

but this is the saddest holiday season i remember having. my family is having two christmases one is the rebel christmas because my grandad got a bit drunk and screamed at my aunt’s for a no good reason. i am going to the dark side, the alternative christmas because my sisters are going to the grandma christmas and i hate them so much right now (they stole 560 bucks worth of stuff from me and my grandma is telling me to let it go like wtf?) and my own grandma said something dreadfully scummy to me about my best friend without him around to defend himself (she said that he was only qualified to do a gas pumping type of job and he was applying for jobs that were out of his reach and he should just face the fact the only job he could get is a gas pumping min wage type of job, like WTF?? he has like 500 hours experience on a backhoe for christ’s sake and 20 years computer experience. he is applying to any job he can do but still that was a low blow.

I have enjoyed christmases being broke before (thank god I bought presents when I was still working this summer) but this….i don’t even have a sparkle. It’s just another month. I have cocoa, and candy canes…but I aint feelin’ it

sorry to bring you guys down but I just wanted to tell yÃ¸u all what’s going on and why I haven’t posted and i thought you all would sympathize about my lack of christmas spirit. maybe someone can buy me the frosty the snowman, rudolph, charlie brown christmas dvd’s (i missed them all) that would make me feel better :) the thought of someone doing that is good enough though, thanks….

Annnnnd all the Okies come crawling out of the woodwork… No one can blame us… it’s frickin’ boring here. I’m just glad the mistletoe is no longer our state flower… because it’s not a flower… I like dots.

Hey, Matt, I bought you a Christmas present, but it wouldn’t let me gift wrap it and I don’t know if it’ll have a return address or not, so if you get something fuzzy with no name on it, that’s from me. Uh… yeah.

I have a feeling that Matt’s sweetie is just fine with all the toys and knicky-knacky stuff, otherwise he wouldn’t love her so much!

Plus, I think Matt has way more crap laying around than just 5 years worth of Advent Calendar goodies. Do you remember the freezer? I liken Matt’s apartment to a Hobby shop filled with old toys and such. Although I would think after 5 years you might have broken down and stored some of the goods.

I live in Iowa, and we also have been almost snow-free for the past few years. It rained yesterday. Stupid global warming.

My Target must LOVE me, because I’ve had all of the Jones Sodas this year (although I have yet to find the Sierra Mist Cranberry Soda :(.) Here are my reviews:

Sugar Plum- Just like Matt said, grape. But more along the lines of diluted grape cough syrup. Has a aftertaste even.

Egg Nog- Tastes like Mountain Dew mixed with some other lemon flavored soda. Nothing bad, but nothing special either.

Candy Cane-The BEST of the bunch since it really does tastes like it. Minty without being too minty. Awesome.

So,I finally hooked up my dvd player last night, although with my ancient tv the screen changes from dark to light, then blurs a bit.

Quick Poll:

Goob: Sorry you’re having such a shitty Christmas. Hope you find some small slice of happy faces somewhere in there.

Also This Here: To the person who asked, believe me, making room for a few pounds of Playmobil toys is the least of this apartment’s problems.

You’re talking to someone who has 500 copies — 500 copies — of the Kool-Aid Man Purplesaurus Rex comic book.

Have you checked out the Plamobil Fun Park in Zirndorf, Germany? I motion that an elite team of X-Ers be commisioned to travel there and act out a live action Advent Calender next year.

Oh man, we are in the 20s of December, pretty much the zero hour for the biggest holiday of the year. I remember as a kid desperately trying to keep myself in control at this point, as mountains of presents were just within reach…

I wouldn’t think berries would be that hard to preserve. I mean, there’s whole jars of preserved berries.

WOW!! My wrist is soo swollen! maybe i should’nt type on here and keep my sling on…I fractured my shoulder about 6 weeks ago. I didnt know it was broke til monday though. Its been hurting, though i thought maybe it was too much Wii, nope i broke it. That and I have a tear in my rotator cuff.

hey brad here, first time poster long time looker, hey this was cool i didnt read it all but the pictures were amusing.

Man this weather in Pittsburgh is killing me. I wanna make a friggin snowman already.

Goob I’m sorry to hear about your crappy Christmas, too. Hopefully now that you can read the AC you’ll find at least some Christmas cheer, like I did last year.

K- Sounds like fun, but I don’t think Playmobil would appreciate ‘evil’ Mares as much as we do. XD

Hey, this may be a completely stupid question, but how does one go about downloading the Jukebox? I’m on dialup and thus the streaming sucks for me.

I can’t believe its going to be christmas in 4 days. It doesnt feel like christmas at all around here…i’ll blame it on the weather. stupid stupid Maryland.

Manimal, I see your Silent Star Wars and raise you Star Trek + Monty Python:

Goob: Sorry to hear that you’re having such a bad season. Mine hasn’t been the greatest, so I know the feeling.

Looks like I may be without internet for the very end of the Advent. Figures, the one thing that’s had me remotely festive….oh well. We’ll just have to see what pans out.

Sadly, Upstate NY is without snow. We have had a few flurries, however, nothing much. It saddens me. It did snow on my birthday (the 19th), but, it was little. So I hear the woes, and can see they are compounded. What I would give to be in Colorado right now.

They had a bunch of Star Wars ornaments for sale at the local (read: 2 hours away) Canadian Tire, but they all looked pretty crappy and were all made out of thinly thin thin glass stuff, so I couldn’t justify paying that much for something both ugly AND extremely fragile.

As it just so happens, I live in Colorado, and no one wants to be here right now.

THEY DO NOT PLOW THE ROADS. Impossible you think? Illogical and idiotic? Welcome to Colorado! Come live here for a winter, you will then know what it was like to live before the invention of the snow plow. Get me back to Maine where they dont declare a state emergency when it just snows 2 feet, because they actually put the money into keeping the roads clear, and they start to close everything BEFORE the storm hits, not freaking half way through the storm. I almost died coming home from work yesterday, after our business closed at 2pm. It took me 3 hours to get home, when normally it takes me a half hour. Cars off the road everywhere, with people in them, or abandoned. People walking along highways/roads trying to get to help. White out conditions. I barely made it home, after getting stuck three different times, again due to the no plows thing. We have snow drifts 6-10 feet high everywhere. Actually our car is stuck in the 4 way intersection next to our house, I made it so close to home, and got stuck in a 4 foot drift. Our car along with 6 others are stuck in this intersection, drifts on everyside. We are paralyzed. We are wishing tomorow they send out plows, but to residences this never happens, because its not a city/town/county road we live on, its all freaking home owners associations, and they would rather let us sit here trapped in our houses for days, then pay some guy with a big ass truck to come through and start clearing a path. So here we sit in our houses, watching the wind whip the snow past our cars that we can only see the roofs of.

James Lipton is still awesome. “They even flipped the bench over! We’re dealing with extremists!” This is even funnier if you read his lines in the real James Lipton’s voice.

Seriously?!?! No snowplows where you live in Colorado?!? That’s just bizarre…bureaucratic crap for sure.

Wow- scary. First actual scary advent entry ever. Did you have to use a black crayon over the backdrop Matt?

Claire’s tossing around Pyroclasms. This not look good for Homestar Runn…er, Kuse et al

hey matt:
i dunno why, but the past couple of days my posts aint postin, my message was how i got lego star wars2 pc game yest. i am hopefully gonna burn/send a copy to everyone as a gift for xmas, best game eeeevvvvvaaaah! its the first 3 originals! they evem have the max greedo band in the cantina!!
any way you could try and post my post that was previous to this, merry christmas peeps!!!

I want to know the behind-the-scenes secrets. Was the set actually burnt (presumably outside on pavement) or was it crayoned? I think the plastic parts WERE actually burnt…that musta smelled.

Awww… I loved that little Christmas tree. :’( Poor Box’s first Christmas is ruined.

*raises hand, volunteering for X-Entertainment eXchange to German Playmobile land next X-mas* I’ll even pay for my own ticket!

I think I’m the first person to visit X-e using the Nintendo Wii browser. The site actually loads OK.

He definitly buned the plastic, but i think Matt splashed the set with ink? Matt doesn’t funk around when it comes to entertaining his fans! But i guess that set is officially retired

meant to type ‘burned’ not ‘buned’. also kuse’s face is lookin pretty battle worn, too much late night bloging?

I’d like to formally speculate that Knacks will convert Claire from evil using the power of love. Tigerboy will then reveal himself to be Random Jim (which explains his interesting behavior), and probably make a move on Mare II, because it’s Christmas and everyone hooks up at Christmas.

Mandy - I know I’m a bit slow on the post, but the problem you described with your DVD player is probably due to the anti-piracy bullshit known as Macrovision. It’s designed to keep people from making VHS copies of DVDs, but all it really does is keep people with older TVs from hooking a DVD player up through a VCR.

Matt, I know your love for all things aquatic, so you might be interested in this story:

The berries weren’t included with the Mistletoe because they are poisonous. They could easily fall off or be picked off and eaten by a pet or child.

I’d like to formally speculate that Knacks will convert Claire from evil using the power of love. –Liz

I think it would make for a much more interesting storyline next year if Claire turned Knacks, especially given his Godfather-ly status.

I asked about what you do with all the Advent/Lego items. Definately sounds like you have bigger fish to fry.

Speaking of frying, looks like they gots some fried cardboard for Christmas. I knew shit was gonna get crazy, but ddaaaayyyyuuumm yo, this is insane!

Anywho, I hope we Kuse and The Gang (ha ha, get it…?! ….? Anyone….? Hello….? Is this thing on…..?) Can stop Claire, and we have no more fatalities.

This girl I work with’s brother got the desktop leg lamp for her husband and today she gave it to me because she didn’t want it in her house. It is the tits! And like yours, Matt, it will illuminate public television office in which I work all year long. I got two 40 watt bulbs so maybe they’ll make it until next Christmas. But did you see all the bullshit you have to go through to replace the bulb in the leg? It appears to be about as complicated as putting a light bulb in an actual leg - like a twenty step process. And it has to be a FOUR watt bulb. I thought even nightlights were at least 5 watts. Lemme know if you find a place that sells such.

So, I’m looking at Legotron, and I notice his backpack. is there room for a couple more heads on it? I think he needs a tail gunner or two. My Lego Spider-Man wants to lead a rescue mission, but all he leads are Green Goblin, Doc Ock, J Jonah, Mary Jane, Prequel Obi-Wan, General Greivous, a Clone Trooper, and assorted space-suited generic guys. Not enough Good Guys to lead a successful last-minute save. And no help from my Transforming Robot collection. There’s a epic week-long Rock-Scissors-Paper bout going on between Unicron and Wing Gundam. Wing can only do Rock and Paper with his hands, but his spectacular full-body rendition of Scissors gives him equal ground against Unicron’s articulated fingers. Winner gets to keep Starscream’s crown for a month. ‘Scream ain’t too happy with that. Now, if I can find a RiD Megatron/Galvatron, the rest of the robots wouldn’t be so caught up in the betting aspect of the situation. At least, some Gigaclaw Thumb Wrestling might break up the monotony.

I am the worst X-E regular ever.
I have not been reading the Advent Calender. I did not finish reading last years’ so I don’t remember what is going on. I…I…I am a broken man.
And to top it all off, I feel bad for Goob.
I guess I need to get to work and get caught up with my reading.
P.S. Invader NorbertI fold.

The candy cane Jones Soda goes very well with vodka. I broke a three year streak of just lurking to tell you that.

Anyone else think that this years advent calendar is so great that it DEMANDS a live action re-make? Who’s with me?

thenixer- I am so with you! I have actually had Advent dreams lately, but they were animated. I’m not even kidding. That is how much this years calendar has permeated my existence.

I’m with you MissJess. Last night I had a dream that the Advent for the 24th was just a picture of Tigerboy looking straight up in a terrified way. In my dream I was going to post a mean comment about Matt being lazy, but then I realized that I couldn’t really get mad considering that nothing Matt does with this site is lazy, especially during the holidays.

I’m glad to hear I’m not the only ones having fucked up x-e and AC dreams. I really shouldn’t check this place before bed! I can’t think of any specific dreams, but I’m pretty sure every blog topic and story polt from advent calender have been themes for the past few nights.

“Eclectic is the new black!” Nice. I also dig the “Starring” pictures. Knacks looks so dignified, or like he will be appearing on The Love Boat or something.

So, I don’t know if this has been brought up in a previous blog, but AOL’s In2TV is streaming a bunch of Christmas specials, including the Smurfs, the Flintstones, and “Christmas Comes to Pac-Land.” Click on my name for the link.

You have to love AMC for still running a few movies from Mostervision from this past Halloween. I miss it even now before the eve before the eve of Christmas eve. I’ve said from and eve too many times.
By the way I have already had the annual halarious moment of the season. Priceless. I will tell it later because I have people randomly looking over my shoulder and it includes a few of them. Don’t worry, it’s not them. It’s their dog. Absolutely priceless.

Wow, her hands are still glowing. She must have infinite Mist charges or something. Vaan would be soooo jealous.

What’s wrong with William? aaaaa….you’re probably right. It’s kind of a dork name.

I just looked at the Emperor Palpatine ornament again. Does it look to anyone else like he might be mid-Macarena?

I’m jealous. But at least someone around the Advent Calendar appreciates his adorableness!

Awww, Goob. I know how you feel, man.

I hate to say it, but I’m really hating my (extended) family now, too. (Like, pretty much everybody except the kids.) I hope things will get better for you soon. It really sucks that it’s during this time of year, but it’ll get better eventually. I hope! Merry Christmas, I hope something turns out okay.

matt why do u allways update the calander a day late?I mean come on it’s the 23rd today!I should know it’s my b-day 2morrow on x-mas eve.

It’s not a day late. He posted the 22nd last night well before midnight. He’ll almost certainly post the 23rd sometime today.

And even if it’s posted later than you like, you still get one a day. If you don’t like the times they are posted just add one to each date and pretend that they were put up a few hours early.

Man, I cannot wait for the Grand Finale, chock-full of Christmas magic and love and joy and merriment.

Good job Matt! I’m really psyched about the possibility of Mare II becomming a good Mare through the magic of christmas…or, I hope that’s what’s gonna happen..

oh yeah..thanks for getting runaway train stuck in my head as well:P I am slowly going insane now..

It could be worse… she could have sang Silent Lucidity. That song makes me ill in ways that should be reserved only for coming face to face with the Devil him/herself or your in-laws.

Here comes Santa Claus,
Here comes Santa Claus,
He’s about to kick some ass!
With his right hook,
And a spinning clothesline,
He’ll smackdown with class!
With Evil Mare sneering,
And Legos cheering,
He’ll set everything right.
For the Advent Calendar
And X-Entertaiment
Santa’s going to fight!

Holy Crap, Advent = Best. Dang it that the ‘06 Santa never got his chance to shine! The ‘05 Santa wanted to retire!

And click my name for, get this, THE UNEDITED MUPPET FAMILY CHRISTMAS!!! Part 1…the rest of parts are available on the page.

The sticker from that very edition of the film is staring me in the face on my tower, plz get it.!!!!!!

If they dried the berries to preserve them they would shrivel up and look ugly, I can’t think of any other ways to preserve berries besides canning or freezing so I guess real ones aren’t very good for decorations.

The mistletoe berries are fake most likely b/c they are extremely poisonous. Better for an unsuspecting tot to choke on plastic than to ingest a mistletoe berry and die.

i never knew any1 could be so grossed out by BUTTER! I mean common…its just butter! Any1 who thinks its creapy shouldnt watch/see any other food scupltures…Id be afraid to think what they would think of that.

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