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Hangin’ With Mr. Krueger.

I got a couple of e-mails this week from readers wanting to know if I'd be doing a "traditional" Halloween Countdown this year. While my sanity would certainly benefit from doing a bunch of shorter blog entries, I've come to realize that the holidays are all about suffering for my bullshit art. YES, there will be a very traditional and very what-you're-used-to X-E Halloween Countdown this year. Very soon, in fact. Don't want to marry myself to a launch date just yet...but very soon.

And, now that I think about it, this will be the fifth annual Countdown. The fifth! Thanks to everyone who e-mailed in with suggestions and donation offers. If anyone else thinks they have something I can cover this year, drop me a line.


Hit the town last night on the hunt for spooky goodness, and among other things to be reported on in due time, I came across the beauty seen above: A Freddy Krueger hanging decoration. Only slightly expensive with its thirteen dollar price tag, I believe this a new-for-2007 item. I love the shit out of it. It's perfect for Halloween, but Freddy's reach is jusssst broad enough to make this one a genuine perennial.

The quality is terrific -- Freddy's head and hands are made of some kind of awesome rubbery material that's both realistic and fun to touch, while his trademark sweater is real wool, or at least, such a good facsimile that I don't feel the need to fact check.

Look close at Freddy's glove. I sure wish I did when I was at the store. Apparently, some hooligan saw fit to rip off three of Freddy's four glove blades, leaving him both a less effective killer and a constant middle finger-giver. I'm gonna head back to return it for not-wrecked version, and it'll be interesting to see how the conversation with the store manager goes.

I don't feel like measuring the hanging Freddy decoration, but if you're looking for some sense of size, he'd make a great hand puppet. Once I improve my ventriloquism skills, I'll be available for Bar Mitzvahs.

Happy SNT!

Posted by Matt on 09/08/2007. E-mail me!



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PLEASE review the adventures of pete and pete’s halloween episode. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Denise @ 09/08/2007 9:54 PM

I would definately keep it the way it is.

Chestnuts roasted by Kid Nicky @ 09/08/2007 9:54 PM

Since he’s not wearing his hat, when I first scrolled down, before I registered the complete picture, I thought I might be looking at some bizarre realistic Krang head.

I can’t help but feel a little disappointed. Sorry.

Chestnuts roasted by Frostor @ 09/08/2007 10:03 PM

I guess the lack of a hat is a bit of a faux pas, but since that gives us an excuse to coin the term “Fred pas,” I’m not too unhappy about it.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/08/2007 10:04 PM

Sucks about the glove, how did you not see the missing blades though? Was it in some sort of a display box or something?

Chestnuts roasted by El Loco Gordo @ 09/08/2007 10:07 PM

With daily highs still into the 90s, it’s definitely not feeling spooky here in NY.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Mack @ 09/08/2007 10:10 PM

I think this is the earliest I’ve gotten in on an SNT. Or read one, for that matter. Matt, praytell in which shop did you find such a treasure? I’ve only seen a Halloween aisle at Walgreen’s thus far.

Oh, and here’s the official word from Webster’s:

crunk

Main Entry: crunk
Pronunciation: \ˈkrəŋk\
Function: noun
Etymology: crunk, word of fluctuating meaning used during the 1990s in lyrics of the rap groups OutKast and Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz
Date: 2000
: a style of Southern rap music featuring repetitive chants and rapid dance rhythms

Chestnuts roasted by Geoff @ 09/08/2007 10:10 PM

When I shop for Halloween things, I’m kind of a lunatic. Something strange comes over me. Freddy could’ve been alive and singing and I still would’ve been too busy throwing more things into my handbasket to notice.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/08/2007 10:10 PM

I went to a little festival in the town I’m living in this year for school and saw a lot of shitty Halloween crafty things. But get this, there’s actually a store (I don’t want to call it a restaurant) called Wiggles, that only serves Fair Food like funnel cakes and stuff. It…is…bizarre.

Chestnuts roasted by Tommy @ 09/08/2007 10:10 PM

“Hangin’ With Mr. Krueger.” Best blog-post-title ever.

Chestnuts roasted by mr.skeleton @ 09/08/2007 10:11 PM

I actually watched Nightmare on Elm Street for the first time yesterday. In fact, that was the first Freddy Kreuger film I’d ever watched. It was weird. I mean, I knew pretty much every aspect of the plot through parodies and references, so it was almost a deja vu experience…especially with that Johnny Depp who was like the retarded younger cousin of Johnny Depp.

So, uh…do I have to turn in my XE badge now?

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 09/08/2007 10:11 PM

Awesome! You should review “Ghost Dots” a new Halloween candy. They’re dots but they’re glow in the dark color and the packaging is an awesome dark purple. Spooky stuff.

PS Got the letter and stickers. Thanks Matt! :D

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 09/08/2007 10:12 PM

Dude, you have to transcribe the conversation between you and the store manager. You can either give him the customer in the showdown who doesn’t take any sh** like Clint Eastwood OR the high and whiny a la Bruce McCullough (“I don’t want a different Freddy, I want this one BUT FIXED!”)

Also, see if you can get 3 bucks knocked off for the lack of hat-tiude. (yuck)

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 09/08/2007 10:14 PM

Matt,

I am a DJ at a college radio station and sent out the summer stream for a bit. It was a hit!

Love the freddy… despite his shortcomings.

Thanks for all you do!

Chestnuts roasted by Parrothead @ 09/08/2007 10:19 PM

awesome, gonna have to find one.
cant wait for the countdown.
check out this awesome boo berry figure/car, i think itd make a fitting entry.

Chestnuts roasted by joshc @ 09/08/2007 10:23 PM

woops.. here:
http://www.tfaw.com/Toys/Profile/Monster-Cereals-Wacky-Wobbler-Bobble-Car:-Boo-Berry___243891

Chestnuts roasted by joshc @ 09/08/2007 10:23 PM

This looks like it ought to be hung from inside a window looking out. But maybe it’s not big enough. Then just hung from the front porch.
Looking foward to the countdown,Matt please don’t call it bullshit art, or we are all a bunch of bullshit art lovers.
Happy SNT!

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 09/08/2007 10:24 PM

just dropping by to check the meter. – happy SNT everybody.

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 09/08/2007 10:28 PM

Holy crap! I’m so glad you did this, cause I SO almost bought this last night! My cousin and I were hitting all the Halloweeny type places around here to cruise for decorations and I saw this in Micheals (yeah, that’s where you can find it for those who want to know). I excitedly yelled at him to come over and look at it cause I really wanted it, but didn’t want to shell out the 13 bucks. His response was, “you may as well get it now, you know you’re just going to change your mind and come up here and get it later anyway.” Sure enough, this article is all I need to finally give me that shove. I think tomorrow Freddy will be mine.

Oh, and to answer the “was it in a box?” question, if you look close at the picture, it looks like there’s a black line coming out of the top of his head. That’s actually an elastic string with a loop to hang Freddy from the display rack. So no, it’s just Fred, no box–at least that’s how they had it at the Micheals I went to.

Chestnuts roasted by DJ D @ 09/08/2007 10:29 PM

Oop! Sorry, I just goofed! I meant to say I saw this at Party City, not Micheals. Sorry bout that.

Chestnuts roasted by DJ D @ 09/08/2007 10:31 PM

Ya know.. Freddy and Jason were the absolute terrors of my childhood. I literally had nightmares about them and lived in terror of stumbling across them while channel surfing.

Now I love both movie franchises. It’s weird how childhood terrors become adult friends.

This concludes your pointless blog post for the night!

Chestnuts roasted by LemonWitch @ 09/08/2007 10:43 PM

I just noticed last year’s countdown started on the 11th- that’s much earlier than I remembered, and also only a few days from now…

There’s an old Halloween Comedy Central bumper from the early 90′s I have on one of my MST3k tapes that I’d love to share- it’s basically just a static shot of a guy riding by on a bicycle wearing a ghost sheet, but howling as if he’s about to wipe out.

Also- Chicken McNuggets: buy one get one free 10pc and 6pc at participating “McDonald’s” eateries through Sept 22nd. That’s 20 McNuggets for under $4. Track down a McBoo Pail on eBay and start filling up!

Chestnuts roasted by GloriousKyle @ 09/08/2007 10:50 PM

I was so happy to see Target Halloweenified last night. Turned the corner between bath towels and storage crates, and in the spot where all the notebooks and stuff used to be was a shitoad of candy. Heck YES!

Oh, and some of those storage containers were black and orange, by the way.

Chestnuts roasted by Thorzul @ 09/08/2007 10:55 PM

Or a “shitload” of candy.

A shitoad isn’t quite as much.

Chestnuts roasted by Thorzul @ 09/08/2007 10:56 PM

Just had a quick thought after my previous post. You should include “Vampires, Mummies, and the Holy Ghost” By Jimmy Buffett in the Halloween jukebox this year. Looking forward to the countdown.

Chestnuts roasted by Parrothead @ 09/08/2007 11:00 PM

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