X-Entertainment's Christmas Season & Advent Calendar, 2008.

07/12/2007: Summer Megaparty: Jolly Rancher Soda!

Jolly Rancher soda has been out for around a year now, so I’m far from the first to report on it. However, I do not care!

The world, or at least, the small fraction of the world personally affected by upstart sodas, got all up in arms last year when Jolly Rancher: The Candy became Jolly Rancher: The Soda. It seemed like a disgusting notion to most, and if you read some of the reviews, it was also a disgusting notion in practice.

The soda brand kicked off with the several typical flavors found in a pack of Jolly Ranchers, and that might’ve been the problem. If you’re basing a soda on straight-up cherry Jolly Ranchers, it’s going to be one sour pool of liquid hell. But the newer flavor I have here — “Cinnamon Cherry Fire” — seems like an admission from the company that you can’t make a good tasting straight-up Jolly Rancher soda. “Cinnamon Cherry Fire” is a strange flavor for a soda, but it’s far from a Jolly Rancher.

I’m happy to report that the revised lineup of Jolly Rancher soda flavors are a lot better than the old ones were said to have been. “Cinnamon Cherry Fire” isn’t something I’m ever going to drink again, but when you dive into a soda expecting to write a review filled with “cherry vomit!!” hyperbole and whatnot, it’s pretty refreshing to just think it’s not very good.

Then again, I’ve never been a fan of fruity sodas. They’re fun to look at, and if I ever want to film a spoof on the Star Wars cantina scene, they’d be nice to have around for legit-looking prop cocktails. Drinking them is another matter, and I’m admittedly biased.

All in all, discard whatever vision of the flavor you may have, and settle on this one: “Cinnamon Cherry Fire” tastes exactly like Big Red juice. You know, the gum. Smells like it, kinda looks like it, and definitely tastes like it. Still, despite the fact that the human jaw contains the only muscles in the human body that do not require exercise, I’d rather chew Big Red than drink it.

And that’s the scoop! This is Matt, signing off live from the field, using a soda bottle in place of a microphone.

This looks like another I’d like to try, but probably never will. And that’s okay.
Hey, Matt, what was the blog or article that you played that triumphant music while pouring? Why that made me laugh so hard I don’t know. But I wanna watch it again.

Cinnamon-flavored soda, eh? Iâ€™m having flashbacks to Pepsi Holiday Spice.

You know, it kind of does taste a wee bit like ol’ PH Spice — but nowhere near as spicy.

I’m almost positive that atleast two years ago i bought a six-pack of watermelon soda at a dollar store for, brace yourself, a dollar. I remember it being absolutely terrible, and ended up throwing five bottles away.

Any drink that includes “Cinnamon” as part of the flavoring is most likely pretty worthless. A little cinnamon in my hot chocolate? Acceptable. Cinnamon soda? Thanks, I’ll pass. Isn’t that what “Hot Damn” is for, to make us regret drinking cinnamon flavored anything beyond the milk at the bottom of a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

I hadn’t seen the triumphant soda pouring movie previously, but kb made me curious. Unfortunatly it seems the link in the article to the movie is broken.

I haven’t yet, but I’ve got the packets. Sadly, I’m loyal to plain old Cherry and drink that pretty strictly when I’m not reviewing the flavor. (Though, if I had an endless supply, it’d be Incrediberry constantly.)

Zoe: Vid still works for me. It’s odd to watch a video of soda I drank two years ago.

Pepsi Holiday Spice is actually… spicy!? I thought that was just a cute name to attract the kiddies. My whole world has gone into question… I must have Holiday Spice.

I tried the flavor you just reviewed, Brian. Wait, why aren’t I telling you this on your blog?

Oh yeah, because I’d rather make TF references on yours….and everywhere else.

I liked Mountain Dew Pitch Black, and I love Mountain Dew LiveWire, but I’m staying far away from any pop with the word cinnamon in it.

Cotter: Don’t do it. You’ll regret it forever. It’s like Pepsi mixed with Pine-Sol.

There will be some people in here shortly telling you different. People you thought were your friends. People you trust. But know that they are lying to you. Because sometimes, in order to hurt somebody very badly, you have to tell that person terrible, terrible lies. And these people, who are otherwise good people, these people relish your suffering at the hands of Pepsi Holiday Spice.

Matt, I have a question concerning your archives. I’m not sure if you’ve already answered this, so if that’s the case I apologize.

Where are they? Once in awhile you’ll throw us a link to the past and I simply love it. I keep imagining thousands upon thousands of oldsk00l (yeah that’s right) unread X-E articles waiting for me.

Do you not link them for bandwidth issues? Or do you enjoy my agony as I type random article numbers in the url? :P.

Cotter — Jedoc’s right. It was pretty terrible. Some liked it, but it tasted like Pepsi with errant, unholy spices of indiscernible origin thrown in.

penmissile: I’m going to rebuild a certain amount of the archives eventually, but in a lot of cases I just don’t like the old articles enough to promote. They’re all up there…I just don’t draw attention to ‘em.

Turned out it was just a browser problem with the video, priceless how the music cues up so perfectly!

I still don’t understand this don’treadmyoldarticlesphobia you seem to have. All of your articles are fantastic, and believe or not, have a certain value of nostalgic value to them already. It’s fun to see the writing develop and the site point more in different directions.

By the way, I recently checked the URL of the TMNT article… article #1,000 is just about 40 away!

Also, the wayback machine worked the last time I tried it. I can’t remember the link, though. Can anyone help penmissile?

I never understood your displeasure with your old stuff. Well, I kind of understand it but you must realize it’s what got a lot of us here. And it is REALLY hard to get to some of the older articles, particulary 2001 to 2003.

Also: The Jolly Rancher soda review came to be because I was looking through the fridge/freezer and it was beginning to look a lot like it did in this article. It may almost be time for a Part 2 to that. I’ve still got Shamrock Shakes in there from forever ago.

I have to say that I can’t think of an article that isn’t worth reading at least 7 times. Some of the old layouts are just fantastic. I especially liked it during the era of Corey Haim’s Tooth and the Quickies.

there’s a cotton candy ad on the side here that when I saw scrolling up, I thought for sure I was seeing an add for colorful dildos.

That reminds me to compliant you on this article. I must have read this about 10 times and I never get tired of it. Especially the part about Donald Pleasence. I always avoided it when scrolling through the old articles because I was always less interested in your vacation blogs, but I really like that one for some reason.

Wait, what? I had no idea that this existed! Sadly, it doesn’t sound very good. I do love cherry Jolly Ranchers, though- could be my favorite candy.

Thanks for the link to the freezer article, Matt. I was going to look for it, but by the time I got online, I forgot what I was looking for. It also reminds me- one of my friends has been helping her mom clean at their church, and she found an open coffee creamer in the fridge from 2002. Ew. Kids born when that expired are now going into kindergarten.

No, seriously this wasn’t that bad. It’s not the “I could really go for a refreshing beverage to quench my thirst” kind of drink. More like the “You know, I wouldn’t mind having some liquid candy right now” kind. Really though, it’s okay. I got it a couple times at the 7-11 I stop at every morning and was actually looking for it today only to discover it was no longer stocked.

I was thinking the plastic just like there way of saying “hey, individually wrapped”.

I still can’t imagine drinking anything mint r cinnamon. I would always feel like I am drinking mouthwash.

Did they make a watermelon version? If so I would open it and leave it in my car cup holder. Then my car would smell like the fifth grade. Then again, this might make me regress and try to jump my Element or something…

Doesn’t it make you want to pack up the car and head out the lake? (or where ever your retreat is.) I think I’ll read it right now then arrange something similar this weekend. thanks cotter!

Matt -
Looking at the article linked to above, about your freezer, prompts this question:
How do you keep your freezer so ice-crystallization-free?

Upstate is great. My favorite articles are the ‘adventure’ ones as I like to call them. The Bulba Saga is EPIC and Maine is still my favorite X-E article. I say that, and everytime I get stabbed in the side of the head for forgetting the Full Corey Haim Video Diary review. That makes me laugh more than anything on this planet.

Wow. Speaking of colorful dildos and finger condoms, guess who’s going to a sex toy party this weekend? I hope there’s door prizes.

My favorite articles are still the Wildwood/Bulbasaur ones, which are the ones that made me an X-E fan in the first place. I thought I was the only one who felt that way about the Wildwood Boardwalk.

I’m one of the few people who seem to have liked Holiday Pepsi Spice. It was on sale for most of the Christmas sale that year, and I must have drank my share.

The worst soda I ever drank is either Caramel Apple Jones Halloween Soda or Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper. It had 3 things I hated in a soda: Diet, Cherry, and Dr. Pepper.

It’s true, 9 out of 10 British Housewives can’t tell the difference between Holiday Spice and a Dead Crab.

I could have sworn there were condoms floating in the second photograph. And once I saw the condoms, I had to stare hard to unsee the condoms. It was a very weird optical illusion.

penmissle the Bulbasaur articles can be reached from the last part, Venusaur which is here. Click on the pictures at the top for 4 of the other articles. Ommited is Quest for Chinese Bulbasaur which right here. The Maine article is here.

Bulbasaur messages/267.html
Bulabsaur 2 messages/268.html
Ivysaur 1 messages/312.html
Ivysaur 2 messages/313.html
Venusaur venusaur/trip.html
Chinese Bulbasaur messages/365.html
Remote Control Ivysaur messages/522.html
Giant Bulbasaur messages/597

I bought Pineapple Sunkist at the International Market thinking it was special or something, and then I found it again on the way home. I actually like it a lot, as it’s not as sweet as ‘original’ Sunkist but still has a kick to it.

I haven’t even heard/seen that Jolly Rancher had a soda. Now I want one. That flavor sounds delicious. Of course, I like fruit sodas.

Cotter: Don’t listen to them. Pepsi Holiday Spice was one of the best sodas ever. Of course, since they’ve been out of production for a couple years, any you find is probably flat icky by now. But when it was fresh it RULED!

Holiday Spice was very nice. In fact, all Pepsi still tastes like it to me. That is a good thing.

Jones Candy Corn soda may turn your teeth yellow, but I still loved the holy hell out of it. I bought several packs after our party to drink for enjoyment o_O

Matt,
You know you’ve made it when your fans have become nostalgic about articles you wrote about nostalgia. Congrats.

Wow, I think I’m going to vomit, thinking about drinking cinnamon soda.

I get the same feeling watching Bear Grylls drink his own pee. Gawd…

I demand that Manimal show up. I feel like he hasn’t been around in forever, but now that I look, I guess it’s only been two days.

No, I imagine a mixture of cinnamon, cherries and fire would indeed not be the winna, mon.

It’s funny. I just knocked on wood at the fact that Manimal’s wife could be in labor right now. I also throw salt over my left shoulder ever since I saw Sleepy Hollow the Disney version when I was 10. Does anyone else have these superstitions? I think I’m the only one.

On the topic of old articles/reviews, I will say it for the umpteenth time… The Secret of the Sword review is gut-bustingly funny. Do yourself a favor and read the damn thing.

Hmm… never seen that around here in Massachusetts. This is totally out of context but my name reminds me… Are you ever going to get around to doing that Army of Darkness review?

I think we’re in the top 20 on the list of people to notify, so when it happens I hope he doesn’t forget about us

Wow, a guy named Boomstick asking for an Army of Darkness review. Never would have guessed it.

Just wanted to say that I re-read the “upstate” weekend away article and it was as funny as ever. Actually it was probably that article that made me realize that I needed to read as much as I could from this site as I wasn’t the only person out there that would get nostalgic/creeped-out in a location with decade-old bottles of Pepsi.

With the popularity this site holds with so many of you I know I am not alone, but it is nice to know that whatever strange affliction I have, there are others right there with me.

I’ve been here for a while now… but I don’t know if I’ve ever told all of you how great this place is.

Matt - Well done sir. I can’t believe I’ve met (err, sort of) someone who puts my knowledge of “meaningless” childhood memories shame. Usually I am “the guy” who brings up forgotten commercials/toys/pop-culture moments from years past when I am with my friends. This is one of those very rare places where I stumble across things that I had forgotten. It not only humbles me (since I am not the trivia God I thought I was), but also gives me new ammunition to bring up with my friends. Thanks.

Everyone else - I have rarely, if ever, found a website where the regular posters have really formed their own “family” for lack of a better term. I think it is great… and I feel fortunate to have found this corner of the web.

Bill- I do the salt thing. I did it once at work and was told that’s something old people do. Who knew?

Is it spicy at all? Anything cinnamon flavored these days seems to equal artificial spice, so just going from the name, it sounds like a spicy soda. That doesn’t sound too refreshing… Can anybody fill me in on that?

Back to Army of Darkness for a moment. Am I the only person here who actually saw that movie in a theater? I can remember actually making my older brother drive me to the theater to watch Sam Raimi’s latest offering and hearing about it the whole time because he was going to miss the NBA’s Slam Dunk Contest. That must have been in, what, 1993?

OK, so here is a sub-topic of the night. What movies, that have gained a “cult” following, did you actually get a chance to see in the theater during their first run?

Besides AoD I also saw the 1988 cult classic The ‘burbs in a not-so-packed movie house.

Norbert - will I be able to breed a -male- Charizard with Ditto? If that is so, this turns around everything I thought I knew about Pokemon breeding. >.> I was under the impression that only females would reproduce, even with Dittos.

I just bought a Shellos toy at the Japanese supermarket, and I noticed that Matt’s image of of the green/blue form of Shellos, but the color is pink. >.> So which do you actually have, Matt?

And yes…anything can breed with Ditto…except for the ones that can’t lay eggs (pre-evolutions and legendaries, as well as Unown) That’s why Ditto is the official Whore of Pokemon.

I saw the Pink Shellos on the last blog. That’s the west kind. the East kind doesnt show up until you reach Hearthome City and the like, on the other side of Mt. Coronet.

You have Diamond, Ariel? I can trade that Phione for one of my many Shieldons. I literally have 10 of them (I had at least 6 more that went to the GTS)

Also: Indeed, Magic Toe, indeed. This is where I thank the Colonel for linking this place to me in the first place. I remember the night well.

Did anyone else, in this entire freakin’ world, and again, this may be the only place I’ll have any luck asking this question contained in a horribly constructed sentence, watch the TV show Werewolf that was broadcast on the FOX network in roughly 1987-88?

I watched every single episode. I don’t remember a damn one, but I watched ‘em.

My deepest apologies for the double post, but I just looked it up and it all came back to me. I don’t recall, but did he ever kill the original werewolf before the series was canceled? Can anyone possibly help?

Just like me. I don’t really recall much about them. I do remember a guy with curly hair, who had been bitten and turned into a WEREWOLF! on full moons, who was looking for the guy who had bitten his roommate? College friend? Something like that.

The most vivid thing I recall from the show though is the weird red pentagram-thingy that would appear on his hand before he changed.

Yeah, like Bludge I am not trying to hijack the thread, but I just noticed that Howling II is on SHONe (whatever version of Showtime that is on Comcast, channel #583) at midnight CST.

Has anyone else seen the Halloween Episode of Walker, Texas Ranger? With the Satanists?

They’re all somber and freaked out by the Pentagrams. “*gasp*, do you know what this means?” Yeah, man, you’re dealing with some emos who fell short of differentiating themselves from goths.

THEN, Walker calls for help. Look, you’re Chuck Norris, man. The only person I would possibly buy you calling (because he’s the only person more badass than you) is Mr. T. Outside of that, you should be fine on your own. Otherwise, we’re all doomed.

My favorite article (the first one I ever read) was The Worst Witch. I had looked the movie up on IMDB for some reason, and someone on the message board gave a link to it. Thank you to whoever that was! The article inspired me to buy the movie, since I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid. My boyfriend can’t understand the appeal… until Tim Curry’s music video starts!

I’ve turned off Howling II in favor of The Devil’s Rejects which is also on one of the 39 version of Showtime I get.

Magic Toe - you were not around when X-E used to have a forum then? Or an IRC chatroom - where heaps of people ended up meeting and making friends and what not? Or course it brought out a whole bunch of arseholes and matt must’ve ended up shutting the thing down (I don’t know, I went off and got busy with life) - those were interesting days…

Nope. Wish I was. My gut feeling is that I have stumbled across this site through various strange web searches over the years, but wasn’t smart enough to bookmark it. It just seems too familiar.

I showed up here in January and enjoyed a whole bunch of the ’80s commercials. After that I researched some of the older articles and decided that this place was definitely worth investigating further.

Fruity sodas are mostly gross. Sunkist is alright, and I like a Welch’s Strawberry every now and then, but the rest are crap. The idea of cinnamon soda makes me feel sick. I imagine cinnamon + cherry tastes something like battery acid.

Since someone else asked about an old TV show, I’ll risk asking about one myself. Does anybody remember some TV show from around the early 90s called Monsters?

Magic Toe - it was definately a love or hate thing. Started off really well, but you know what a collection of bored uni students can get like, ruined the forum and the chat room. This was going back…..hmm 5-6yrs I guess. I still talk to some of the guys from back then. Matt doesn’t talk to me any more though

KB: (sigh) I think I can officially toss salt then. :( But now that I stopped adding salt and replaced it with Frank’s Red Hot Sauce, it is harded to toss when spilt. (or spilled)

Frank’s is a suitable replacement for Texas Pete. It’s okay. Better than frickin’ most.

Amen, TP. The forum was pretty hardcore. The mass being random assholes or trolls, but there were a few that were true. Granted, I was an excuse for more than a few unintelligable arguments (Project_Mayhem, represent!), but I was here to talk for the reason we’re all here now. And to cut the shit, Matt made the right decision, and here we all are. Bullshit cut, it’s easier for everyone.

Aw, classic article love.
I believe we’re in the top 30, Shuan…I do think there’s a good chance it might be that time though. Exciting!
“Fuckerware party” is hilarious, I’ve never heard that before. I went to one of those parties years ago, but it wasn’t anything to write home about. Maybe I was with the wrong crowd.

Wow Matt you’re good. Ask and ye shall receive.
We care, Manimal

My phone has a nifty feature where it saves words I’ve typed so I don’t have to type it all the way out everytime, so now when I type the letter m it suggests “manimal”, “mystie” and “megaparty”. It’s so awesome.

I hope Matt planned todays update for 5 in the morning because I sure as hell am not asleep.

As soon as I read “Star Wars cantina scene,” the theme music started playing in my head. Now it won’t stop.

A little while ago I read one of those smarty-pants websites that did a survey about what regions of the US use the term “soda,” “pop,” or “coke”. The article was on Digg so I checked the comments for it, and every person on there was about to kill each other! Over what they named their beverages!

Fun fact: I once wrote a paper on the origins of popular superstitions, and pretty much all of them have something to do with the Devil.

Salt, along with silver, was regarded as a “pure” substance back in the day, and Old Scratch just couldn’t handle it. Folklore states that he’s always looking over your left shoulder, waiting for you to screw up so he can take supernatural retribution in turn. Since apparently spilling salt is one of the no-nos he’s got jurisdiction over, you toss a pinch over your left shoulder to blind him and keep him from seeing your mistake. So next time you get caught tossing salt over your shoulder and asks you what you’re doing, briefly reply “Macing Satan” and let them make up their own mind from there.

Conversely, there’s another superstition where, if you rub your eye and end up with an eyelash stuck to your finger, you flick your hand over your shoulder and make a wish. If the eyelash is gone after a single flick, your wish will come true. Well, remember who’s standing right behind you all the time? That’s right, the debbil, and he’s got the biggest eyelash collection on his block. It seems sort of strange to be trying to bribe the Devil into granting you wishes, especially since you’ve been throwing salt in his eyes all these years, but there you have it.

If I were to describe the taste of Pepsi Holiday Spice in a way you might get an idea of how exactly it tastes, I would say it tastes like Pepsi meets chai tea. It’s a subtle spice, and I quite liked it, but I’m a also fan of chai tea.

Sam’s sells a case of Jolly Rancher in random flavors for I think $14, they come in 20 oz bottles, too. Found right next to the Jones soda sugar cane variety pack.

Fire is, or at least was, an actual jolly rancher flavor. I found one in one of those big variety packs about 10 years ago.

We’ve done the Soda, Pop, Coke survey here before, too. And while I don’t think anyone was about to kill anyone, It definatley did cause quite a ruckus!

Magic Toe: We were at a local comic convention a couple of years ago and my dad got a bootleg of the complete series of WereWolf. You can find lots of interesting stuff at a comic convention.

Fisting: Cool. It’s been awhile since I’ve been to Sam’s. But I’m not sure I want to pay $14 for something I’ve never tried. I’d rather buy a single bottle. If it’s at Sam’s, I’m surprised I haven’t seen it at Wal-Mart.

Ok, I understand that iPod and other mp3 player accessories are good biz, but this is taking it too far.

Ever had that bubble Yum soda? It tastes like a sweat sock. Just thought I should share that. Matt, I was always a big fan of your old nes game reviews. Because of the wonderous virtual console on the Wii, might they be making a comeback?

That “if anybody cares” came out wrong.
It wasn’t supposed to be so emo. I just dont want to come across as the “baby countdown” guy who is forcing his life onto this show and thereby distracting X-E from its true mission.

I foung this site by shear accident. I am a big fan of the Friday the 13th movies (By the way happy 13th everyone!) I found the X-E LURVS Part 2 through Google, and really enjoyed the article. I then began to read some of the older stuff when - GASP - our company admin thought it would be a good idea to get more work done by limiting everyone’s internet access to 30 minutes. There was no way I could read the articles anymore

Then I looked to my left and saw my hiiiigh speeeeeed printer. So here’s what I had to do:

Google X Entertainment. Click on “More results from X Entertainment” then I would have Google show me all the ommitted results. Then it was a simple task of finding a article that sounded interesting (The ratio of good stuff is VERY high)
and quicikly printing it out, and then closing out the internet. I could then read it at my leisure. My personal favorite is the trip to Maine.
I could usually get about 10 a day read. The supergirl and my best friend’s a vampire reviews are great too. Oh yeah - ALL the Halloween Stuff is great! Do you still own the Dracula Dirt Necklace?
Anyway now I work at a new place and can post and fully enjoy the site! I never thought I would blog once in my life…What can I say?
I Lurv X-E

As long as we’re linking old articles (or were last night when I wasn’t here), I re-read this one this week since I was lamenting that adult birthday anticipation (mine’s 7/15) is never the same as kid birthday anticipation. It made me think of birthday parties and whatnot, which led me to search out that article again. Is that the only home video-based review? Either way, I’d love to read more.

I love this site because as I get older, it’s harder and harder for me to find friends who really get me. When I pull out some 80’s memory, I don’t want someone who’ll just shake her head and go, “That’s our Lori!”, I want someone who’ll join in and sing the rest of the jingle with me. Even my own husband will say, “I was only (insert age here). I don’t remember that.” To which I reply in exasperation, “You’re four months older than me!” So, this is kind of like my support group. No matter how many “girls nights” I get suckered into with women I have nothing in common with, I always have you all to come home to.

I wrote this whole post about how I love this site (and linking one of my favorite articles) and it must have binned me because my post didn’t show up. There’s gratitude for you.

I’m not typing all that again, but I do want to add that I think it would be so cool if the baby was born on Sunday, because that’s my birthday. I’d get a little bit of joy out of that, especially since I’m still having to live vicariously through other people’s reproduction.

Manimal- Don’t know if this is your first kid, but my first was almost 2 weeks “late” so I am feeling very sympathetic not only for Mrs. Manimal but for you as well. My biggest piece of advice… don’t chew gum while sitting next to Mrs. during labor. Mr. Heather almost lost his jaw. :) Hopefully all goes well for you both!

As far as how I found X-E, I typed 80’s ads on google and X-E popped up. I knew I had found my new favorite website. Like the rest of you it is nice to find others who can recall useless knowledge in an instant.
For example at work a friend of mine asked me what the name of battlecat was before he turned into battlecat. I said “uhhhhh Cringer” to which the person who asked me replied “I should hit you for knowing that.”

Sorry for the double post, but I figure as long as we’re doing requests is there anything that links to those old G.I. Joe catalogs? Even though I was more likely to play with Optimus and company, I recall scouring over those things as if my life depended on it.

Considering some of us have been coming here for damn near a decade, I have to say Matt, all your articles are fantastic, and hysterical. I love going back and reading the old stuff as well as the new stuff, and I become a sad panda when the “Next Article” button take me to the home page.

Good luck with the baby, and if your review of Transformers doesn’t boil down to saying it was the greatest movie in the history of this physical universe, I might have to cry myself to sleep tonight.

Debbil-man may be a rebellious so-and-so, but he’s still part of the Creation, so he still has to follow some rules.

Marvel is bringing back Thor, and rebuilding Asgard here in Oklahoma. We got runestones. That might have something to do with it. Not to mention J M Strazynski is doing the writing.

Did you all remember to hug a drilfoon(sp?) today? the pokemon is out in plain site by the valley windworks (only if you finished that part in the story) they are seen in plain site not in the grass just go up and talk to it and the battle will start.

and a little on topic this site was recommended to me long ago and I’ve been lurking ever since…well until Matt got Diamond

Don’t know how accurate it is, but it sure got all the Digg posters worked up.

I found this site because I was trying to track down information on Inhumanoids toys. Then I thought “This dude does, says, and thinks some the same stupid shit I do!” and I started reading his other articles. Matt still seems to know more about Inhumanoids than anybody I’ve ever known, I thought there were more of us, but I guess not.

Before you know it, I started from the very beginning and read every article and blog in chronological order.

I would mostly read these articles at work, so I couldn’t invest a lot of time doing so in one sitting, so it took probably close to a year and a half to read through everything.

Seeing as last week he couldn’t even remember the original movie or enter TF conversations, I’d start stocking up on tissues

This is off-topic, but I was in a Family Dollar today and I saw something there that I’ve never seen anywhere else (of course, it’s probably because I wasn’t paying attention until then.)

They had something called Pop-Tarts Splitz. It’s a pop-tart that is half strawberry, half blueberry. I’ve only seen it there.

Also, I was in Wal-Mart today and bought something called Oreo Cakesters. Haven’t tried it yet, but it looks like a Chocodile, but in a Oreo shape. (am I the only one the gets the various Little Debbie products names confused constantly? I can’t tell a ring ding from a yodel without looking at the boxes)

As for one looking back at articles, a couple of years ago during Halloween Matt had a page that had links to various other articles. One of the articles was the 69th article he wrote. Then I simply pressed the backwards and forwards buttons to read the articles in order. Of course, not everything was available, but it took me a good two months reading everyday to read the stuff that was. This included the old Animalia section.

Stupid leap year. The next October with a Friday the 13th is not untill 2017. Why oh why did I not make the most of it last year?!?!?

We just had a friday the thirteenth in april never noticed they were so common…

We just had a friday the thirteenth in april never noticed they were so common
They can be pretty damn frequent actually, like when you have one in Feb on non-leap year you get two in a row.

I celebrated Friday the 13th by watching… Friday the 13th. And I even totally forgot that it was Friday the 13th, too. That’s fate for you. Unfortunately, I only watched about 5 minutes because it was my shitty old VHS that looked like shit and (for lack of better word) skipped every 3 seconds.

Thanks for the info. If Holiday Spice comes out again this year I’ll be first in line. I tried the Pitch Black icee… how bad could Holiday Spice be?

I’mma watch me probally Friday the 13′th Part 4, Since Tommy Jarvis is like my god and I had watched part 6 too recently.

Just finished making a Michael Myers vs Ultimate Warrior Stop Motion video. Click my name for the link. 5 stars and positive comments make me feel happy.

I completely forgot it was Friday the 13th! Is there anything the X-E blog can’t do? Time to bust out the DVD box set! Thanks for the reminders, people.

I’m amongst those that say that Pepsi Holiday Spice is the only soda ever to do spicy right in any way, shape or form. Question is, has anyone ever tried to mix up their own version of that? By say, plunking a few dozen of those little cinnamon hearts into a bottle of Pepsi? That sounds like it’d make a good X-E article.

Oh, man, I’m glad I read through the comments thread for this one. I’m a born and bred Mainer, and that Maine article was great. As someone who ate my first lobster when I was too young to remember, I found the perspective of an adult trying his first one hilarious. And I’ve never heard anyone claim that the tomalley (green stuff) was shit before! (It’s the liver.) (And yes, it is edible.)

I never noticed all the Pepsi ads, but now that I think about it . . . but, hey! We don’t only advertise Pepsi! Sometimes we advertise Budweiser! And the really classy bars advertise Corona.

Twelve years ago, when i was in sixth grade, I was stopped by some sort of professional corporate survey taker at the mall. She showed me a bunch of pictures of something called “Jolly Rancher Juice” and asked me questions about what I thought of the advertisements and would I drink it based on the pictures. I gave the advertisments mostly positive reviews. They also showed me a potential product called Kool-Aid Soda, which looked kind of gross. Anyway, neither of these products ever made it to market, but I guess Jolly Rancher soda is probably the same as the juice they showed me, except with carbination. Man, that took a long time.

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