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

11/09/2007: Christmas Peeps, Eggs and Snows. In that order.

You know it’s a good sign when you’re finding cool new holiday junk at virtually every store you walk into. Let’s just hope that the well doesn’t run dry by early December, leaving us with no other option but to repurchase the items below and pretend we didn’t already buy them. It’s too much fun when things are shiny and new.

New “Peppermint Marshmallow Stars” from the folks at Peeps may seem a little basic at first, but they’re actually the most Christmassy Peeps I’ve ever eaten. The stars, white as snow save for a generous helping of red sparkly sprinkles, taste exactly like what you’d imagine marshmallow candy canes to taste like. It’s really quite incredible; they’re the only Peeps in history capable of making my mouth feel cleaner.

I have a friend who constantly touts the glories of stale Peeps. In fact, she intentionally “dries out” her Peeps in an effort to get them to the perfect level of staleness. I’m on the fence when it comes to that phenomenon, but you really shouldn’t do the stale trick to Peeps as soft as these. While most Peeps have an almost sand-like exterior, there’s something especially soft about these. My only regret in eating them is that I’m making my potential new head pillow smaller by doing so.

From the makers of the almost-holy Cadbury Creme Egg comes…well, it’s pretty much the same thing, but updated with a Christmas-themed foil wrapper. “Cadbury Ornament Creme Eggs” taste no different than their more famous cousins, but since it’s impossible to eat the originals during the winter holiday season and not feel a little bit screwy about it, the red foil goes a long way.

I’m only covering the Christmas candies that I haven’t already talked about, even if I talked about them five years ago on pages that aren’t actively linked anywhere on the site’s primary pages. It’s a quirk. Point is, there’s much more out there beyond what you’ll see on the blog this season, and if you’re the type to fill your kids’ stockings with random candy, you could totally give someone the gift of diabetes this Christmas.

“Santa Snow” is just one of the many titles given to the endless varieties of “snow-in-a-can.” I love snow-in-a-can. It’s a fool’s game to assume that the weather gods will bless your home with a heap of holiday snow, so sometimes, you’ve got to take matters into your own hands. The can is stuffed with somewhat smelly artificial snow, which can be shot out much like hair spray to create the design of your choosing.

One caveat: Many, many years ago, my sister and I were in charge of decorating my parents’ old house while they were out of town. We went a little nuts with the snow-in-a-can, spraying it on the outside of every first floor window. That January, we were surprised to find that snow-in-a-can has an adamantium-esque invulnerability. It was impossible to clean the stuff off. We had to wait for the heavy rains of April for the outside of our abode to stop looking like a gingerbread house, and by then, the damage was done. Our family’s neighborhood reputation was forever tarnished.

I think my main goal for December is to find a big, unattended brick wall and spray “EAT LEAD TRACY” on it with snow-in-a-can. Few will get it, but those who do will think I’m really amazing.

Man, I picked up some of those Peppermint Marshmallow Stars after someone brought them up in the last comment thread. I love em! full of Christmas falva!

Years and years ago, I predicted that one day we’d have Cadbury Creme Eggs for all occassions, but I didn’t think that this day would ever actually arrive. Christmas Creme Eggs are just one step closer to Valentine’s Day Creme Eggs, Halloween Creme Eggs, and Thanksgiving Creme Eggs.
My sister, on the other hand, is convinced that Cadbury has sold out, and no good will come of this.

Mmm… those look damn tasty. Love me some peppermint. Thanks for the heads up ma mang.

By the way, am I the only one that feels wrong being this pumped for Christmas so close to Halloween? And also completely overlooking Thanksgiving?

I don’t know, I kind of think TG and X-Mas go hand in hand these days. I love Thanksgiving itself — my whole family still gets together, it’s a big party, and since we don’t really get to see EVERYONE all that often, it’s nice to get through the day and not have to do the extended goodbyes, since we’ll all be seeing each other for Christmas a month later.

I hate Peeps, I always have, but they look so goddamn tasty I’m always tempted to buy their latest creation, because maybe this time it’ll be different…

I was in Target the other day and pretty much all the candy had it’s own Holiday theme. It almost seemed like an overkill. It was hard to find plain candy canes. There were only Starburst, Spree, Life Savers, ect…

But now I want to get christmas peeps shipped over to the UK. Along with creme eggs - even more ironic seeing as I live in Birmingham which is where cadbury’s are based, yet we can’t get creme eggs in christmas time. Bah!

That damn adamantium-esque snow-in-a-can!! It’ll get you every time. Nothing more humiliating than gazing out upon your blooming tulips through half-washed-away images of snowmen and sleds

Gweff: That’s what I thought Matt’s post was about at first glance. After seeing two candies in the entry then seeing the snow, I thought my childhood fantasies of edible can-snow had been fulfilled.

I had to clean that snow off of my freshman dorm room’s sliding glass door. It was like community service, and I’m pretty sure it absolved me of every sin in my life up to that point.

i would definitely find anyone that sprayed EAT LEAD TRACY on anything awesome. and i agree that thanksgiving and christmas are and forever will be linked. i think its only a matter of time until they try to link it to halloween. and then labor day.

Yumm.. peeps. I think maybe a trip to Target tomorrow is in order. Cadbury could make it even more Christmasie by making the middle cream peppermint. I would go for that, but I don’t know who else would. They have a caramel egg which could be for thanksgiving and an orange cream egg, which I guess could stand for Halloween. Now they just need Valentines day.

I’ve been listening to the 2006 Christmas jukebox here at work.. it’s great.

Maybe it’s just me, but I always felt like Thanksgiving and Halloween were more linked. Pumpkins, squash, histories that don’t even try to make sense.

Flipping through the channels, I guess I’m wrong. I’ve seen about 20 Christmas commercials in the past 2 days which is almost as many Halloween commercials as I saw in all of October. It’s pretty sad, as I’m still slowly realizing that Halloween is over and won’t be back for another year.

I guess I still have plenty to look forward to. Until the great holiday depression, AKA January.

Am I the only one disappointed by the cadbury creme egg? Yeah, it’s great to be able to eat them in winter time and all, but I was hoping they’d be more… festive. Maybe they need some peppermint flavoring or something.

I saw this link this morning on the netscape/aol start page, http://shopping.aol.com/toys-video-games (I really need to change my start page). As someone who was traumatized by aunts and uncles who never understood why a dollar store solider figure wasn’t the smae as a G.I. Joe I share Matt’s desire to slap poor gift choices out of people’s hands in stores. So I cringed when I saw this link telling relatives to buy gifts that aren’t on a kid’s list. ARGGGHHH!!! Kids spend hours researching toy catalouges and talking with other kids in deciding what they want and then they dream of getting the things on their list, what evil soul decides to just ignore that and buy something crappy. I mean this list is only 10 toys and TWO of them shoot marshmellows. I don’t know about you guys but 20% of my childhood was certainly not spent in marshmellow fights where I wished I had better technology. Another gift is a stupid projector that puts a moon on your wall, if you get this instead of something you really wanted you should be allowed to hit the person who gave it to you over the head with it. Sorry to go on such a rant here but again lots of trauma with horrible gifts as a kid.

On a side note my brother and I as kids would spend weeks making our xmas list, we’d lay out several toy wish books, make lists, go back and edit the lists so that we weren’t asking for too much and thus seem greedy and then finally ranking and re-ranking all the items on the list. Anyone else use to spend this much time on it or were we just odd?

I too remember the evenings spent pouring over wishbooks from Sears and J C Penny. The editing and prioritizing. Mostly I remember the dreaming.

There was only one family member that would ignore the list and get me a “keep-Christ-in-Christmas” present. It took me years to fight back and reclaim my faith from the jaws of lameness.

I’m all for keeping Christmas religious. (My wife will be ordained in another year.) Let the kids have there toys!

I’d rather they filled the Cadbury Egg with an eggnog-flavored cream. That makes sense to me. Peppermint would also be good, but since every other candy this seeason tastes like it, I’d say lets be different.

I just finished a package of Peeps Cocoa Bats the other day. Those are delicious. Can’t wait to find and taste the peppermint ones. And you’re talking to someone who isn’t that big a fan of the regular Peeps.

The last two Christmases have been really craptastic for me due to excessive procrastinating and lack of holiday spirit, and — to quote Gwen Stefani — a few times I’ve been around that track, so it’s not just gonna happen like that (this year). I’ve already pieced together an ultimate Christmas music playlist and I’ve begun shopping for presents and assorted Christmas necessities.

yeah i definitely do that “dry them out thing” they’re just easier to eat when they have a texture like steak. what can i say. i like a little fight to my candy. which is why i choose the Now-and-Later over the Starburst; i want to punish myself inside. but lately, the preservatives or somethinh makes them fucking indestructable, they stay fresh for DAYS. its gross. like this \

and can i just say, cadbury creme eggs have honed my tongue skills like you can’t even believe. i can probably play chopsticks on the piano with it.

I was fighting the Christmas thing, but now I’m going with it. If I feel the need to play Christmas music, I do. The only thing I’m holding back on is decorating. That is my Black Friday tradition, and I’d feel bummed waking up that day knowing I don’t have it to look forward to. Besides, seeing Santa at the end of the Macy’s Parade would be kind of anticlimactic if the TV set was already framed in tinsel. But, other than that, if my spirit wants to be filled with holiday cheer, who am I to deny it?

Am I the only one who totally doesn’t feel the peppermint thing? I don’t like candy canes, etc., tolerate thin mints for their chocolate content, and was glad when the major toothpaste manufacturers came out with flavors like citrus so I wouldn’t have to use mint-flavored toothpaste anymore.

If you’re looking for some holiday spirit that’s exclusively Thanksgiving-licious, Food Network is running TG episodes/specials all day long tomorrow.

My brother pranked me with the snow in a can when we were younger. And by ‘pranked’ I mean he was an evil little bastard. He sprayed my hair with it while I slept (heavy sleeper here) and when I woke up and found what he’d done. Well, the screams didn’t stop for an entire day. Mine AND his.

Does anyone know how snow in a can interacts with cats? I always want to use it, but I’m afraid of poisoning the family felines…

On a side note, has anyone else seen the new re-released madballs? I found them at TRU the other day and had to buy one, made me very excited to shop for my nephews…got some pictures here:
http://duncepress.com/blog/200...-toys-and-old-enemies/#more-34

Just got done watching Waiterbot’s 2nd vlog. Really dig this new character. And i’m gonna place an early bet that by dec 25th you either had to stop waiterbot due to voice problems, or you now sound like waiterbot all the time ha.

And ditto on the creme eggs. You’d have thought they couldda injected those suckers with peppermint creme. Ah well.

Also hope i can find my bargain snow in the can this year. Last year amongst all the typical sized can’s there was this giant ass can, seriously about as long as the span of my hand to elbow. And for some reason it was 50c. It was excellent too. Stayed on until you wiped it away nice and easy with a paper towel come January. I must admit with the huge size did come the drawback of maneuverability, but for that price, i can overlook it.

I do the same thing to Flamin Hot Cheetos Puffs. I buy a bag, open them, let the top half get stale after about a day, shake the bag a big, leave em opened for another few hours-day and then I’ll eat them stale. I only do this with flamin hot puffs, no other Cheetos or even foods for that matter.

Nice blog, I’ve heard of these peeps, just haven’t looked for/seen them yet.

How about edible Silly String? If they ever come out with that one, man, i’d be all over it like your favorite metaphor.

I must look for some Peppermint Peeps! I’m surprised it took Cadbury this long to start Pimping their Easter candy to the Xmas crowd. I’ve seen Xmas Mini Eggs as well…I guess Santa has traded in the reindeer for rabbits that sound like chickens. Great post Matt!

I’m another who is getting hyped about Christmas for the first time in a long while and worried it may run it’s course too soon…guess we’ll have to wait and see.

On another note: Anyone else ever feel like their job is just not right for them but then all of a sudden everything clicks again and you feel like your doing the the right thing after all? That was me today; I nice feeling after weeks of feeling “ugh” about work; has that happened to anyone else?

Hey Im Jeff….I just remembered the excitement that awaits me tomorrow thanks to your comment about food network: I will most likely meet Alton Brown and Giada DeLaurentiis. I just about screamed. Hopefully they will show us all some thanksgiving/christmas tricks. Also, I agree with everyone that said that the cadbury eggs would be better if they had flavor, peppermint and eggnog both sound awesome. My sister and I were also exceptionally OCD about our christmas lists…i remember that if i didnt get something i wanted for my birthday (which is july 1st) i would put it on my already existent christmas list. For some reason i imagined waiterbots voice being like a will ferell doing robert goulet. weird….

MMMMmmmmm Santa Snow… we use those with those paper templates to make snowflakes and snowpeople etc on the windows… the bad part is that it soaks the paper so quick that you usually only get one use out of them…

I never used the spray snow…..but when i was little, and my family still lived in the ghetto before moving to the suburbs, there was a house on the end of our street that had the snow up on their windows for probably 3 years straight, but then again they were drug dealers so maybe it was a way to mark their house for potential buyers or something. there has to be some kind of logical explanation for it.

Hey Matt, I came across this at borders the other night. Not sure if you have seen it or covered it yet but check it out. Click my name for the pic.

Here is the the most holy of holy cadbury creme egg, with a recipe for making your own diabetic coma inducing snack.

Ha Ha! El Loco Gordo: When I first read your comment I thought you said that you came over the border last night and that is what you found. I was confused how you bumped into a Christmas Story game on the border. Then I reread it. Makes more sense the second time. Good find, man!

Hah! Love the Dick Tracy quote! Also, is it just me or does “Snow-in-a-can” sound ripe for parodying (SP?) the SNL “Dick-in-a-box” song?

My sister, on the other hand, is convinced that Cadbury has sold out, and no good will come of this.

I think that already came when they decided to shrink the eggs. That’s utter blasphemy, and it was proven in an episode of Conan O’Brien.

But Cadbury Creme Eggs in December that aren’t stale Easter leftovers?! MUST. HAVE.

I’ve officially thrusted myself into the X-mas season by bottling my Chocolate Holiday Porter today. There’s nothing better than basking in the soft light of the Christmas tree and downing a few bottles.

Invader Norbert: I read something in the distant past in a book on junk food which contained a scientific study correlating the gradual decrease in the size of a single-serving Hershey bar and the gradual increase in the price of the same, until a modern-day (then, around 1981) bar was half the size and twice the price (in real dollars, adjusted for inflation) as one sold in 1930.

I just got a box of that Captain Crunch Christmas stuff that you were raving about last year! I didn’t see the Cadbury’s today but I will be searching for them this weekend!

Well the update went well and a new template has been put on with lots of basic widgets. Hey Matt what version of WP are u using?

Egg nog-filled Cadbury Eggs… I’m scheduling a diabetes check now. lol I’m not sure I’m comfortable eating Cadbury Eggs at Christmas. I mean, that’s a pretty exclusive thing, to have Cadburys on Easter. Easter might get jealous.

Shuanfu: That’s happened to me before, but I snapped back into it only after I realized I was going to have to stay there for another 6 months. Two months to go! haha

I used that snow-in-a-can stuff at my night job two years ago as a joke. By mid-February, my co-worker finally spent 4 hours scraping it off the front windows… she had to get a ladder for part of it. No one else wanted to touch the stuff and no one knew I had done it. Score!

I’m just going to say it. I don’t like Peeps. Never have. Don’t like anything gummy either. There. I said it, and that’s that.

I agree with Matt that they should have some how Christmased-up the Cadbury eggs a little more if they were actually going to call it a Christmas item. Give us some snowflakes etched into the eggs or something. I miss the commercials like mad. What happened to the chicken-clucking bunny? Oop, that reminds me. That commerical was how I discovered X-E! I was searching for it on the net a couple of years ago and Googling things like “80’s commercials”, and there she was. I forgot all about the bunny and spent the next little while checking out all the other old ads. That led to reading a few articles, and a couple years later here we are.

Rob: You are so dead on with the lousy gift thing. For several years in a row my mother would bug the heck out of me to put a list together. I would obssess over it to make sure it contained a few things I really wanted and some filler that I knew she was going to buy me anyway. She would promptly buy maybe one thing I actually asked for and throw the rest out. Christmas morning, I would end up with a whole lot of crap that she was going to buy anyway and none of it was on the list, even the practical stuff! Ugh! What’s the point in asking for a bleedin’ list if you’re just gonna ignore it??

I always considered Thanksgiving to sort of be the X-Mas dress rehearsal, sort of a warm-up. All the food and family visitation without the financial obgligation. They sort of go hand in hand these days, but I’d still like to ease into the X-Mas excitement though, just coming right off Halloween and all–at least for the next couple of weeks. Day after Turkey Day, we can all go nuts.

My younger brothers and I spent hours on our lists, as well. Flipping through pages of holiday editions of Service Merchandise, Fingerhut, Sears, JCPenny, and TRU catalogs writing everything we wanted down in rough draft form, tagging each item with its appropriate catalog and page number. Then we would polish our lists up a bit, remove some things, maybe add something else, and hand them in.

I have that game and I must say it’s rather hard to play. Being a huge Christmas Story fan, somebody sent me a link to this just yesterday. I could be wrong, but from what I can see, this is new for 2007.

Oh yeah, and I want it, really bad. Monopoly is another one of my “things”. Even though I only have about 10 sets, I’m just picky on which exact ones I want. This one will be my next addition.

I recently picked up “Here and Now” edition, but it’s still the general Monopoly feel.

These are my 2 newest additions that some, maybe most, of you might enjoy:
Rudolph
Nintendo

Fistpittingnork
Nice to meet another Monopoly collector. Where did you find the Nintendo version? I so need one of those!

Long time reader…first time commentor. I had some eggnog today. Tasty. That is all.

I haven’t seen it locally, I ordered it at the beginning of this year (I believe) from an ABC Distributing catalog. It was about the same price as Amazon though, so if your local hunt for it turns out to be a total flop like mine, then I’d just purchase off Amazon. I’ve seen it elsewhere for $5-$10 or more than Amazon’s listing.

Has anyone bought their Advent Calendar yet? Is anyone else planning on buying one? Anyone buying the Lego Calendar?

I’ve actually never bought an Advent calendar, but I did see this year’s Lego City Advent and it looks pretty incredible. So much that if I see it locally I’ll pick it up.

Nork: I’m considering buying both, the Playmobil for me, Lego for my fiance, something to get him in the Advent Calendar mood. We’re going to spend this Sunday re-reading the old ones together since this will be his first Advent Calendar with X-E… and me.

I agree about the “Christmas list” thing. All of my family members ask for one every year, and I typically get one thing off of it, and the rest of the gifts are off the cuff. I usually spend the week after Christmas buying myself some of things I said I wanted, but didn’t get.

And I forgot to mention - it’s crazy that that “snow in a can stuff” is still around. When I think about all of the awesome things I had as a kid that are now banned/discontinued/wussified, it’s amazing that fake-snow-in-an-aresol-can somehow flew under the radar and is still around. Anyway, rock on, snow in a can.

What say we all post our YouTube names in case they are different from our usual names here? It’d be nice to know who’s saying what in the comments.

Oh my noodles.
There is a god.
ahd he loves me.
that is why there are Cadbury Eggs for Christmas.
Granted, eggnog (awesome) or peppermint (cool) would have been a choice spruceup, but…
you know, I ain’t gonna complain.
why?
CAUSE THERE ARE F*CKING CADBURY EGGS FOR CHRISTMAS!
seriously, this blows my mind.
That and El Loco Gordo’s GIANT CADBURY EGG link.
That’s what I want for christmas, a cadbury egg bigger than my head.

My Youtube name is loltard (it’s from an inside joke… don’t ask), although so far I haven’t posted any comments on the videos. Now that I’ve said that, I will, though >:D

My YouTube account falls under the same as my X-E, MySpace, AIM, blah blah blah… fistpittingnork

It’s a dangerous game Cadbury is playing when they make the bunny work overtime during the holidays. I was under the impression that humans could only consume that much sugar during the spring; something to do with the weather…

Apparently Jones will have a 2007 Christmas pack (with HAM FLAVORED soda!) as well as a Hanukkah version!

Why must everything rad not be available in my area?!
K-: youtube name, JimFetus

Waiterbot’s Vlogs have officially taken over The Ghost With The Most as my favorite XE holiday thing.
And now I must also find minty star peeps. I am not a huge peep fan, but I find if they are microwaved, they are tolerable so long as they are a variety not too heavily tasting of dye.
Mmmm…warm Peeps.

Hey Matt, Donald here. I am just popping in to congratulate you on your YouTube waiterbot VLOG. Once this gets out, your site here is going to blow up like Rosie O’donnell enjoying all you can eat shrimp at the Sizzler. No offense, I’m sure it wasn’t easy getting her to do your voice work. Seriously though, you blew me away, and I need to know that you know that.

In thought of the late Robert Goulet, died October 30th (just found out, thanks to Waiterbot), I am sharing this video (that most of you have probably seen):

For some reason, when I looked at those peppermint Peeps, I got a craving for the icing they put on strawberry Pop Tarts. I think that icing on peppermint Peeps sounds even better though. Someone mentioned putting cream in the middle too, mmmm….

so wait…wasn’t the whole advertising campaign for cadbury cream eggs ‘only available during easter’? or did imagine this…they don’t have me fooled…but i’ll eat it. I GUESS.

I must have missed something, can someone please post a link or how to get to the waiterbot thing

Just noticed that knacks has 665 friends, so if Matt added a new friend they would be 666, kinda evil

I was browsing through junkfoodblog.com and I saw an X-E reference. That surprised me for sure.
Click here for that link

Someone mentioned the peppermint peeps the last blog. They look damn good I am so glad I like peeps (some people don’t, can you imagine that?) and I might have to get a cadbury egg or two. I got addicted to those last easter (post easter sales)

I got two boxes of fruit by the foot on clearance today at the store. They are franken berry and boo berry flavored. They were 2 for 1.00. I think I am going to review them on my blog. The artwork is like the cereal boxes so it’s neat. I didn’t grow up with the stuff but I was curious about them and 50 cents a box for fruit by the foot how can you lose?

Oh yeah a lady kind of yelled at me at burger king tonight. I totally didn’t yell at her kid her kid is way too sensitive. He was almost crying!!

Pfft, I paid $2.00 a box for them Pre-Ween. Boo Berry is my favorite cereal, so it was cool.

Rob: Yeah, Knacks just added me a little while ago. Turns out I’m Friend #665. I juuuuuust missed it.

Waiterbot sounds like Sam the Eagle with a sore throat. I’d be grumpy too if I sounded like that.

I’m not a big Cadbury fan (too sweet), but I do occasionally try some Peeps. I will have to find those now. Maybe CVS has them. I didn’t see them at Wal-Mart or work today, but neither place has all their Christmas candy out yet. I did see one familiar package from last year, though - Hershey’s brought back those divine Candy Cane Kisses.

Haven’t found the Cadbury Eggs yet, but haven’t been to Target or Walgreens, either.

However, I DID find about 10 boxes of CHRISTMAS CRUNCH at Walmart tonight, for those of you that love the stuff..

I just saw Waiterbot’s vlog for the first time. Maybe this is old news, I haven’t been around. But I’m peeing my pants a little.

I’m kinda disappointed that the Cadbury Eggs aren’t green or red or something. But…yum!

I despise cooked marshmallow myself, but those Peppermint Peeps are tempting…and yay if Holiday Spice comes back! And some of those Jones Sodas actually sound like something I’d want to drink.

I’m selling merch at another stop on the tour I’m on in Augusta, GA and a guy just approached me and said “Are you Brian?” And I’m all “…Yeah?” and he’s all “Hi! I’m Bill! From X-E!”.

I so want to meet someone from X-E in real life. This is how the conversation would go:

Them: I’m XXXXXX, which one are you?
Me: I’m Knegative.
Them: Oooooooh. Okay, nice to meet you. *flees*

Kneg - We live in the same state, don’t we? Why haven’t we arranged a day of ridiculousness? Or gone to a show together?

Thank you for telling us about meeting Bill Brian I would love to meet a regular from X-E especially Bill.

With the holidays coming up, I’m hoping Jack in the Box brings back its pumpkin pie shake and eggnog shake. The pumpkin pie shake in particular is a great one.

I just opened up a bottle of Christmas Cocoa Soda (from Jones of course). It’s not bad, chocolaty with a slight peppermint taste.

Anyone one see Jones has two holiday packs this year - Christmas (featuring Christmas Ham) and a Hanuka pack. The Hanuka pack looks the appetizing with the apple sauce and jelly doughnut sodas.

everytime i go into any stores’ holiday section…and even more so-discontinued holiday section, i look over my shoulder and see if there is anyone else there that is as excited as i am….perhaps hoping that they would indeed be a fellow X-Eer. I dont know if any of you live in northeastern ohio though (like the kent/akron area)

I know Leigha When I get overly excited about an X-Eish type of thing in the store, my best friend slightly covers his face and follows me from about 15 feet away when I act like that. It’s worth it though life is short he shouldn’t be ashamed of me about being excited about the little things in life

Brian: Bill and I were chatting through MySpace and I mentioned to him that I occasionally DJ gigs in Augusta and that the next time I was in town we could get together. I don’t have anything lined up down there for the foresable future but if any of you guys find yourselves in SC or near it, let me know, and we can get together. I’m in Columbia.

That goes for anybody reading this who’s nearby. Meeting a fellow X-E’er in real life would be incredibly cool and just really weird all at the same time.

Oh dude is Bill as handsome in person as he is online? That guy has fucking got it together, man.

I met an X-E’s in real life before. Was Kid Nicky, over the summer. He asked me to sign an autograph for his gf right on the tag of a Pac-Man plush, and I did it using an oversized novelty pen.

HOLY QWERTY!!! Cadbury Eggs for Christmas?!? That’s like Reece’s for breakfast, on a mix of crack, ecstasy, and any other mind-altering substance you can fit into a text box!! *drools*

*wipes mouth*
Anywho, Matt, you are more awesome for the Dick Tracy/Snow-in-a-can thing. Unless there’s a different Tracy that would be riddled with bullets or canned snow. =P

Do Facebook meetings count? I’ve met two X-Eers on Facebook, and in fact, it’s Muppet Baby’s birthday today.

Today I got a free sample of some kind of minty mochaccino thing. It was actually not too bad though usually I can’t stomach sweet holiday drinks. They’re so sludgy… it’s like they just steam the milk at the bottom of a bowl of count chocula.

I used to work at an independent coffee shop and people would ask me for something they saw at Starbucks like “grande pumpkin frappuccino” and I was like “do you mean… MEDIUM?” If Starbucks was actually an italian company I wouldn’t mind the lingo but it’s just so pretentious coming from an american corporation.

Wow, we have a real rocker among us, X-E’ers. Brian is on a serious tour and he is as cool as one would think from the random X-E posts. Thanks Brian! It was an honor and I hope more X-E’ers will get the chance to see you on tour!

Whoa…Just listened to the latest Vlog. I know that isn’t Matt but I’m still smitten for being in the X-E archives and I think that has a lot to do with Kneg’s comment. It’s an X-E time here in the South, I guess.

“give someone the gift of diabetes this Christmas”
Now that is some funny shit right there.

I think that waiter bot ought to sound like christopher walken! i beleive Pepsi spice is coming back for christmas…at least according to my free two liter coupon i got directly from pepsi when i inquired about the shitty quality of sierra mist in there fountains at fast food places.

Just found little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes at the HEB! Let the gorging begin!

lol Just hit the VLog’s. Too funny man. My daughter was sitting on the couch and couldn’t see it but heard it and had that “what the hell are you watching this time dad?” look on her face but was almost pissing on the floor at “gay firewood”.

My parents were pretty good to sticking to the list, however, I did have a few rogue aunts who would pick me up a small item that their son/grandson wanted. I remember getting thumb wrestlers one year, it was a Roddy Piper to boot. As much as I loved wrestling back then and especially Roddy, I had no want for the thumb wrestler and I remember looking at my mother and saying “Why would she think it was something I wanted because Karl wanted it? I’m a different person..” Ahh the wisdom of a 9 year old (or something).

The biggest blunder was when when I was poking for just one gift of a C64 since I was blossoming into a geek. I was so excited to see the large box X-mas morning but then… you know what I have to post on my own blog one of these days so I’ll save that for there.

Lastly, so I don’t triple post anymore, last year I had put my X-mas list up in two sections.

I think meeting an XE-er would be odd, but cool. I believe I am the only regular poster from the Minneapolis/St Paul area so the chances of are slim. Maybe when I win the lottery I will take a road trip and go spy on many of you.
Yeah, that wasn’t a creepy thought at all.

I thought my family was the only one with Christmas list issues! My father-in-law is the worst. He will practically demand a list, like to the point of getting angry because he wants to do his shopping and doesn’t know what to buy. By the way, this starts around late August/early September when we haven’t even begun to think about what we want for Christmas. So then, we’ll take the time to make up a list, get it to him, get a token item off the list, and then random stuff that was more convenient to purchase than the stuff we actually asked for. My mother-in-law is bad too. Her main issue is that she’ll buy the one thing off the list and then give me a bunch of filler that she found on clearance or whatever that I really don’t want. I don’t understand why she couldn’t just buy me a few things that she knows I want instead of ten wrapped packages of random junk. By the way, none of these people will give us gift ideas for them. It sucks when you have to figure out what to buy for everyone on your list AND what they’re supposed to get for you. Stupid holiday double standard.

I know that there are a few of us from VA around here. When I’m in an area where I know a fellow X-E’er lives, I always wonder in the back of my head if they’ve passed by and I didn’t know it. I’m normally pretty shy, but I think if I was in a store and I heard someone say, “I don’t want to think about chicken while I’m eating Doritos”, in my shock I’d just turn around and go, “X-E!” Maybe that should be our code phrase, you know, like secret agents. Also acceptable: “That’s so Bitner.”

I hope there is an SNT tonight. I haven’t been able to put my keyboard to work in a good while.

Oh man, my mom started asking for my wish list in October. Now, when I say my mom “asks” for something, I mean she does it in the politest way possible - every time she sees me. Seeing as we live in the same house, that meant a Christmas list request at least once an hour. It usually takes me forever to make my list because if I list everything I REALLY want, it’ll come to hundreds of dollars worth of stuff. So I spend weeks struggling to narrow it down and make it cheaper, which often means inventing inexpensive things to want. Meaning I tend to ask for things like pillowcases when I really want a Nintendo DS *sigh*

I’ve yet to meet any X-Eers in person, despite Manimal and Andy both living fairly close by. I think this needs to be remedied.

Jinsky I always say “small” or “medium” at Starbucks, and I can always see the person taking my order have a little convulsion, like they are trying to hold themselves back from jumping over the counter and grabbing me by shirt and yelling “Do you mean grande or vente??!!!” I fucking hate where I live, its ALL chain stuff in the metro-Denver area. And no Dunkin Doughnuts, where you can get a Chai for $2 instead of $6 at Starbucks. This year for Thanksgiving, everyone give thanks if you live near a Dunkin Doughnuts…lol.

I don’t live near a dunkin doughnuts. I live near something else… Ducking donuts or something. Right next to the Dairy Cream and Pizza Cot.

Depending on the Holiday season, I might be found Christmas shopping in OKC, Yukon, El Reno, or down in Lawton. I’ll be the one trying not to go all Mad Max with my shopping cart, screaming something like, “Calgon, you can just bite me!”

Weird, I thought the same thing. Batman Returns style Christopher Walken is how I pictured it.

I’ve never really had a specific woman voice in my head for Mare, nor a specific male voice for Knacks, but I will tell you the Knacks voice I have always used does sound a lot like Michael J Fox. Back to the Future era.

We always had a shopping list for Christmas growing up. Now we get 100 bucks but when we were kids we wrote a list. I never asked for stuff that was more then the shopping budget unless it just made it a tad over and it was a big budget item that made it so with a bunch of little items. My Grandma would feel bad me just getting one present so I got a movie or two, cds, etc. and the big item. One christmas I got one of those racing tracks that go in a loop but it was a certain one that you could race with a yellow car and a red car and you could switch lanes to cut them off. I barely used it, there was a lot of maintence for that damn thing. I think RCA made it but I am not sure. I still have it dunno about the cars though.

Anyhoo. Muppet Baby Happy Birthday! Hope you do something out of the ordinary to make it extra special.

Just wanted to drop in and mention I’m counting down the last half hour at work before I have to get off. This last bit, there’s usually nothing to do, so I’m killing time by starting to read the first Advent calendar for the first time ever. I’m only on the 10th day of the first calendar and I’m already laughing out loud. I just got introduced to Mare’s evil, slutty twin and it looks like there’s a death match brewing between them involving two lambs (one of which may or may not be a midget serial killer in disguise). This shit is amazing. I can’t wait to get further in and get introduced to this Knacks and Kuse that everyone’s always on about. If the rest of it’s as funny as this, it’s going to be a fun ride.

Crazy_mainer
I too am in the Denver metro area. I wonder who else is in our area?

Uh Oh. How The Grinch Stole Christmas in on TBS tonight at 7:30 est. I guess it really is the Holiday season.

I believe I am in the minority of people who actually really like the live action version.

I’m all about the addition of the Grinch’s childhood. That was nice and heartwrenching.

i dont know if i can do the holiday thing, lately anything that remotely reminds me of childhood makes me cry because i have suddenly come to the horrible realization that i am an adult now. PS- for those of you who love the food network, alton brown from good eats is fucking awesome and for his demonstration he made a lot of poo jokes.

Kneg: Want to hear something really sad? The dwarf who played Kid Grinch is dead. :( My girlfriend is still really pissed that I told her this…that was her favorite part of the film.

I’m fiercly trying to deny the Christmas season here until after Thanksgiving, but I just found out there’s a new Mannheim Steamroller CD out…..Between that and Christmas Tree Cakes…..

Matt: I’m also on your side on the live action Grinch. That movie gets so much unneccessary crap.

Speaking of Christmas movies, I just got back from seeing “Fred Claus” and it is HILARIOUS. Just plain go see it.

Waiterbot’s Vlog reminded me I needed to order this year’s Lego City Advent Calendar. (This year they have a girly line too. Don’t want cute kitties and puppies. ) Another set of daily Lego fun for a month. Eventually I am gonna have enough Lego people from these things to actually populate a city!

woohooo… it’s snowing out!!… I thought of Waiterbot as an evil Sideshow Mel voice… Sometimes as Sideshow Bob but it morphed to Mel over time with less flamboyance…

“I think my main goal for December is to find a big, unattended brick wall and spray “EAT LEAD TRACY” on it with snow-in-a-can. Few will get it, but those who do will think I’m really amazing.”

I’d have to drive the length of the Island to find it, but I’d go batshit when I finally did find it.

I probably knew the answer to this at one time, but I have forgotten it - is there an 2003 Lego Advent Calendar, and is it on the site anywhere, and if so, how do I locate it? I did a search for Advent Calendar, and it found the 2004-2006 Lego Advent calendars, and the 2004 one referred to events of the previous holiday season, but the 2003 advent calendar that I found had nothing to do with Knacks, Kuse, and/or Mare.

I am also a “live-action Grinch” enjoyer. I never understood why people didn’t like it. I actually ended up seeing it twice when it was in the theaters.

Yes! Cadbury eggs are available twice a year now! I’ve longed for this day for a long time. Best creme filled candy ever.

What a neat site, I was looking for a Mr potato head dressed like a turkey and somehow this site came up. Thank you for such a cool story. Just a note that might help you for next year. Take all those free return address labels you get all year to stick on the tickets. Will save you a lot of pain.

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