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07/03/2008: X-E’s ‘08 Summer Megaparty: Apple Kool-Aid.

I used to review old Kool-Aid flavors all the time for the site, but I ran low on the “good ones” and wanted to save them for special occasions.

Blah, that’s a lie…I guess I just haven’t been in the mood to stretch a two-line flavor review into a thousand-line version. Then again, I just remembered that I have a jug of ancient Apple Kool-Aid the size of a small tank. Maybe now would be a good time to make X-E kool again. Yes, yes now would be an excellent time.

I know I’m running a Summer Megaparty, but the one thing I always appreciated about Apple Kool-Aid was its ability to move the brand into an all-out autumn zone. It was one of the few Kool-Aid flavors safe to drink during the Halloween season, and when I say “safe to drink,” I don’t mean it literally, but more in a “no white after Labor Day” sense. You get me.

An artifact of the very early ’80s, the flavor recalls a time when the makers of Kool-Aid still clung to the idea that they could market their wares as something more than loud, neon, obnoxiously-named sugarfests. You won’t find many Kool-Aid flavors so mundane and “pure” in today’s market…they just don’t evoke any sense of tongue-coloring sour-face trip-hop craziness. This barrel of Apple Kool-Aid is ancient, but it feels even more ancient than it actually is. It feels doubly ancient. And when Apple Kool-Aid is finally revealed as a ringer working at the behest of Hawaiian Punch Incorporated, it’ll feel like a doubly ancient double agent. A term that I find almost as fun to type out as it is to say aloud in my “incredulous robot” voice.

General Foods chose to introduce Apple Kool-Aid not only with the small “packets” we all knew and loved, but also with a special canister filled with enough Apple Kool-Aid to turn a kid’s sandbox into a kid’s edible sandbox. This probably wasn’t the best idea, as it forced consumers to roll the dice and assume that they would like Apple Kool-Aid enough to drink thirty bazillion gallons of it. If I was the Kool-Aid Man, I would’ve started smaller. Maybe with free sample packs in the Sunday newspaper. Or with advertorial skywriting.

Still, there’s evidence of some bet-hedging: Seemingly aware of the ridiculousness of SO MUCH Apple Kool-Aid, General Foods proudly proclaimed in at least thirty spots on the label that the canister was reusable. Thus, even if you weren’t completely in the market for a troth’s worth of Apple Kool-Aid mix, you might’ve been in the market for reusable canisters. They are excellent for transporting soup.

Ah, shit. Evidently, this was one of those presweetened kinds of Kool-Aid, meaning that there’s actual sugar in there…sugar that has spent nearly thirty years crystallizing into a substance that nobody with a reason to live should ingest. Luckily for you, I lack such a reason.

It’s…appley? Appley is the best way that I can describe Apple Kool-Aid, even in its currently sad and rancid state. I suppose that’s a bit anticlimactic, but it’s not like I can just start lying and say that it tasted like conifers mixed with froggy juice. I’m a journalist. I suspect that the “punch” of the original flavor has somewhat dissipated over the course of three decades, but I’m getting a good enough sense to know that it was indeed…appley.

Basically tastes like watered down apple juice, and since it was really no better for you than real apple juice, I think I’m missing the point of all this. I suspect that the unsweetened packets were a lot better, as you were free to customize the level of sugar. I don’t like having the sweetness of my Kool-Aid dictated to me. This isn’t Communist Russia.

I don’t think even a fresh pack of Apple Kool-Aid would make for one of my favorite flavors, but I’m still totally down with the fact that it once existed. The Halloween season connection is too much of a plus. If you doubt that, try to doubt this:

From some weird 1981 magazine, it’s a full-page Apple Kool-Aid ad that challenges Halloween fans to drink what would remain the scariest cocktail on the planet until Ghoul-Aid arrived. “Halloween Chiller” combined Apple Kool-Aid with orange juice and 7 Up. My brain cannot process what that would taste like because it’s too busy focusing on the funky parrot on that kid’s shoulder. I understand that a child in the real world might’ve settled for a battery-operated chirping parrot if he wanted to be a pirate for Halloween…I just never expected to see it voluntarily illustrated.

I was going to end this review with some kind of letter grade, but I think I’d like to reserve judgment until I try Apple Kool-Aid that wasn’t pre-sweetened thirty years ago. Look for a follow-up review sometime in the distant future.

Tomorrow is the Fourth of July. We’re doing absolutely nothing. Are you?

To blend the themes of Kool-Aid and patriotism into one harmonious hyperlink, I urge you to revisit my review of Cherry Cracker Kool-Aid.

My Fourth of July plans involve Level Grinding in Final Fantasy III, and watching the Twilight Zone Marathon on Scifi. Exciting? Yeah, I guess.

Oh, and yes, I drank the Apple Kool-aid. I have a mac and an iPod and want an iPhone and…oh, wait. Not that kind of Apple?

Dig that sales propaganda, not only do you get delicious apple Kool-Aid, you also get a REUSABLE plastic jug! Makes me want some damn apple Kool Aid.

Oh Man, Apple Kool-Aid. My mom used to give this too me when I was extremely little. Apparently I loved the stuff.

Can you still get it on the market? I remember the Apple chill one when it came out. Had some sort of Menthol in it. Didn’t last long.

Matt, I worry for your health ingesting drinks over 10 years old. But I appreciate the sacrifice for our entertainment.

I haven’t had Kool Aid in awhile, the last stuff I bought was, unbeknownst to me at the time, sweetened with aspartame and it kind of turned me off Kool Aid for a couple of years.
I should pick some up and rekindle a lost love.

Meeting some friends on the uppermost level of a gigantic mall’s parking garage. Sounds… fun… right? Well, it is pretty fun when you consider it is in the ‘burbs of Chicago and you can look around 360 degrees and watch at least 8-12 different towns having their fireworks displays all at once.

Matt, please post your Brawl code(will post my own momentarily). This goes for anyone willing to add me.

Oh and as for the 4th….nothing?! C’mon mat! You gotta set something on fire or cook meat or something?!

My best friend and I got the KFC SUMMERFEAST ($28 worth of KFC) last year and ate it all and we plan on doing exactly the same this year. Before seeing the city fireworks. It’s gonna rule.

“it’ll feel like a doubly ancient double agent. A term that I find almost as fun to type out as it is to say aloud in my “incredulous robot” voice.” That sentence alone is the crowning acheivment of this post and I havn’t even finished reading it yet. Feels like the old Magic is in effect.

Hey guys, nice Brawling. Sorry, I got to go. And apparently I need to practice. Big time…

I think this Fouth I am going to write profanity in the air with sparklers. So really, I have no plans. Just cooking out, drink beer in a wife beater and smoking a Cohiba cigar that I have been saving for weeks. Feel free to stop by!

This makes me want to get out my packets of Apple Kool-Aid and concoct them into some strange new force. If I got some gelatin and some apple schnapps we could really be in business.

As for plans for the Fourth… eh. The boyfriend is coming down tomorrow and I’m probably gonna drag his ass to the Native American festival in town. Consume picnic food, go swimming, lay in bed and watch horror movies, take more MySpace default pics together to disgust our friends with. Eventually head over to his neck of the woods (out past Philly and shit) and make him take me to see Get Smart or something.

Tummi is the guy who puts together the mp3 playlists for the seasonal music on the site. Not sure why he wants to go by this name, but there ya go.

Two things:
1. For the fourth, I’m getting pics made of Tiny Claws, then looking for G.I. Joe vehicles (yes, for me).

2. I want to get original Care Bear style repros for my daughter. Where do you get the brand new ones that look like the old ones?

Oh , and AWESOME brawlin with ya’ll ! Matt your Pikachu is no longer unstopable my friend. >=)

My parents came to town for the fourth. We’re going to go see WALL-E and Hancock tomorrow, and then we’re going out to my uncle’s house to get smashed and play with explosives.

My grandma still has some of that! She also has root beer kool-aid. I wonder how they would be together? Anyone have any experience in mixing kool-aid flavors, cuz i certainly don’t.

K-town Iv’e mixed Kool-Aid flavors befor, and I didn’t care for it from what I remember. It wasn’t horrible tasting, but it didn’t exactly taste great either.

I kind of figured it wouldn’t be a revelation. But have you tried kool-aid as a hair product? There’s rumors on the internets of such inventive use of kool-aid.

Ultraman, I entered your code and it says “awaiting registration.” Does it say the same thing for me?

Jester I tried that it was called Artic Cool Green apple koolaid. I know I remember not just the green apple but a lemonade but I just googled it and all I found was the green apple one. At the time it came out I was drinking presweetened koolaid on a regular basis and I would scoop it into one of those Ocean spray cranberry bottles that are flat on both sides so you can put it in the door of the fridge washed out of course.

I tried a little bit of the artic green apple, gave some to my boss at the time during our lunch break and he had the nastiest look on his face lol. My best friend called it snake venom after trying it. It tasted like menthol cough drops to me. I thought what the hell was koolaid thinking?

Hey Speaking of Ghoul-Aide, I never got mine from 2007! Oddly enough I was cleaning out old e-mails last week and found that note from matt. As for tomorrow we’re heading over to my aunts. we just has a death in the family so we’re all in the same state for once and plan on relaxing and goofing off. Also, drinking beer and italian liquor is on the list of things to do.

You got it! We can test out the Castlevania-themed stage I designed in create-a-stage!

Gonna get up in the morning and put on my new camo shorts and ARMY shirt; gotta support the boys and girls and all….

Then I’m gonna chillax until the peeps show. I’ve got steaks ready to grill and corn ready to boil. Maybe you should just come over here Bill; we’ve got enough.

Being where I live, EVERYONE shoots fireworks ALL DAY. Our contribution will be the four large bags full of fireworks of all levels of destruction waiting for a lighter and drunkeness.

It’s kinda crazy around here; by 10PM there is a thick fog of smoke all over town and it sounds like a small scale battle going on; it’s great.

this makes me harken to a day when “appley” ( as oppposed to aptly) sweet Apple Jacks were part of my vernacular. Long live artifical apple flavors!

wtf is a pine comb? Is that kinda like a pine brush? And why would you be tasting it? Just wonderin. Probably visiting the relatives and drinkin beer tomorrow, the usual.

Fourth of July picnic/potluck. I’m bringing some disgusting black bean salad that will surely appease my many vegan/vegetarian pals.

Hoverbored It did say it when I had my Wii on, But I turned it off since. I hadn’t given you mine yet though.I’ll see if it still says it.I’m up for some more Brawlin if anybody wants to join in.

Are you sure it’s not “pine cone”; hate those things…all over my yard and shit…

Just discovered 3WK Radio on ITunes…holy crap is it awesome in it’s scale; just got “The Cross” from Sign O’ the Times, followed by “Professor Booty” from Check Your Head…so awesome…

The first thing I thought when I saw that ad “Why is that kid wearing a polo shirt with a parrot and a backwards hat? What kind of costume is that for Halloween?”

K-town, I dyed my hair with kool-aid as a kid. It didn’t wash out as fast as I would have thought. I was bright orange for some time.

I’m going to spend the morning working, then will join Dad, my stepsister, and his girlfriend to head down the Black Horse Pike to visit my uncle’s grown daughter and her family in Cinnaminson. We’ll have the usual barbecue there, then come back to Oaklyn for the fireworks.

I have no memory of Apple Kool-Aid, but it doesn’t sound like I missed much. We drank a ton of Kool-Aid when I was a kid, probably because it was cheap, but I haven’t had any in years. I have one packet that’s been sitting in my pantry area for two years.

Aaron apparently I didn’t have your brawl code so i added it. Couldv’e sworn I already had it. Oh wel, it’s in now.

That Mom in the Kool-Aid ad looks young, more like an older sister than the true MILF catagory clincher…….

Mmmmmmmm, oh yeah, what was I saying? The 4th of July! That’s it; we’ll be blowing stuff up with the rest of the US.

Thought about making one of these this year, the vid is a little long but the payoff at the end is SO worth it:

Not doing anything for the 4th. Shrine chat, Silent Hill 2, Animal Crossing, Soul Caliber II.

Matt let’s set up a time to Brawl this week, sir. I didn’t get to take you up on it that lifetime ago.

We’ll be seeing Hancock tomorrow and eating pulled pork sandwiches/potato salad/coleslaw/cake/watermelon.

Yea, I remember the short-lived fad where teens died their hair weird colors using Kool-Aid. I guess it was their way of standing out without going all goth/emo on people.

It’s great to have a Kool-Aid review again. Any chance of a cereal premium review sometime? I just got a Batman spinner from a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Well,I do love an online Brawl,but I’ve got to go to bed. I’ve been up since 7. I’ll probably have nightmares now that Pikachu has kicked my ass and shouted “Not the mama” at me.

Aaron, sorry but my wi-fi got disconnected. Anyone still wants to Brawl, I should have my connection back shortly.

Well GREAT Brawlin with ya’ll as always. Gonna watch a flcik then konk out for the night. Got a BIG day tomorrow afterall. Pleasant dreams. =)

I couldn’t believe this, but I checked my blogs today and one of them linked to this PrimatePoetics thing, aka total Amy monkey stuff:
Can you explain PrimatePoetics in one sentence?
Great apes using human language are creating a new literature.
I’ll hop on Smash in a bit if anybody’s still around. Thanks to familial nincompoopery I’ve just barely gotten home and need some quality time with this McDonald’s and Captain Morgan first.
Happy 4th everyone

Hoverbored, ULTRAMAN, had fun! I always enjoy Brawlin with you guys. Hoverbored, could I get your Wii number? I’ll post mine in a sec. Oh, Cameron T., could I get Brawl fc and Wii number also?

Aaron, I’ll post my wii number in a few. After I add you, I’ll send you some custom stages I designed.

I knew I’d seen that parrot before. I dug through my old childhood stuffed animals and there he was. He looks so amazingly like the picture that I bet they added a photograph onto the drawing.

Aaron: Don’t have them handy right now, remind me tomorrow and I’ll post them. If you dig around in the blog archives enough I know they are there somewhere…

Neg, Kid Nicky, Squee, could I get Wii numbers and Brawl codes? My Brawls up, but I’ll post Wii in a second. Oh, Kid Nicky, that was MY Pikachu… BWAHAHAHAHA! All my taunts I got from Baby off Dinosaurs.

Those of us around tommorrow should have a big X-E Brawl tournament. We can do stuff like multi-man brawl and home run contests.

Ok. Thanks Cameron and Hoverbored. I still need to make some! I might do that tomorrow… oh, and my plans for tomorrow… try and get as much of Brawl done as possible, X-E, youtube, THEN go to Vancouver to see a HUGE fireworks show, then back to Portland. And Smackdown, of corse.

(chuckle) the wii number was mine. I forgot to sign my name! Yeah, I thought since a lot of us usually end up at home doing nothing on the 4th, it’d be a perfect day for it.

haha yeah I figured as much. Here’s mine: 0536-4005-2604-3964. I’m gonna try to unlock as much as possible… gonna take FOREVER. Oh, well. It’s fun. Afterwards I’m gonna finish Mario Galaxy. But for now, Internet.

Aaron, don’t be too discouraged if it takes awhile. I bought the thing within a week or so of release and I still haven’t done 100%. Have you beaten boss battles on intense? I sure haven’t.

Hey all - Just got home from drinking and losing at poker. I am a bridesmaid in a wedding tomorrow, so help me. I am NOT a girly-girl in the least, and I have to get all fancy. Shit.

AWWWWWWWW Muppet Baby AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. Come here while I tie little satin bows in your hair and paint your toenails hot pink.

Muppet B aby I know how ya feel. A little over 2 years ago I had to get all fancied up for my Brothers wedding vows renewal ceremony. I ABSOLUETLY HATE getting all dressed up in the type of clothes that are required for those types of things. BUT I did it anyway of course because I love my big brother.

Oh, didn’t mention this earlier when I posted — and it may have been discussed to death in earlier blog posts (sorry, if that is true) — but GO SEE WALL-E if you have the chance.

I thought it was the best Pixar film since Finding Nemo. It was just freaking magical.

Hoverbored, I haven’t either. I will some day… oh well. Thanks for the words of encouragment. It takes a LONG time to get it all done, huh?

Slumber party! I think we should either play Girl Talk Jenga or the Saved by the Bell game.
Good luck with the wedding, MB. Here’s hoping the food’s good and there’s an open bar

Aaron, you said a mouthful! Also, keep in mind that some challenges cannot be “hammered,” particularly ones related to boss battles.

I was at a party all night. Just my luck, I had been given potential hook-uppage as soon as I left. I think we’ve all been there.

4th Plans? F5′ing this site for the July 4th entry, goin to a friend’s BBQ, and then going to another friend’s place afterwards.

We need another thread where we list all our Wii numbers. I forget where the last one was.

One more comment about the apple koolaid I don’t think you could reuse that container, Even after throwing it in the dishwasher I think it would reek of apple koolaid still. And soap. And I don’t think that is a good combo.

I am about to make bisquick cinnamon rolls. I really want to bake something and that is the only thing I can think of I have all of the ingredients for. How white trash is that? Bisquick cinnamon rolls? And we have wine coolers in the fridge! lol! Happy 4th everybody.

First off, I just want to say thanks Matt for braving that concoction for our amusement. I remember when Kool-Aid used to come in those big ass containers, and yeah, I remember choosing my flavor wisely lest I get stuck with some funky thing that will never get opened again.

Just today I was at the store on my lunch break from work buying…well, some lunch, and had some apple juice in my hand, debating on whether I wanted to go with apple or grape. Seeing that I drink apple juice all the time, I decided to go with something I hadn’t drank in years and went with the grape. I think it was a wise decision. Usually my lunches consist of either Chinese, hotdogs, or a frozen dinner, all bought from places that are walking distance from where I work, but tonight I decided to do something different and actually make a lunch that might have been a little healthier. So, I got stuff for PB&J sammiches, an apple, some watermelon, and the grape juice…oh, and some toothpaste, just cause I’m out here at the house. I was really pleased with it.

Don’t really have plans tomorrow. Luckily I don’t have to work. Might go to a little get-together, might not, don’t know. We’ll see. I don’t have any family here in town and this is the first year when I won’t go out of town to visit them for the 4th so I don’t really know what to do with myself here.

We’re doing nothing. No one can afford the fireworks this year and no one likes each other enough to get together without fireworks. Even the cities opted out this year.

Hoverbored, have you done boss battles on very hard? I keep losing to a certain blue guy that can transport to wherever he pleases and can kill people in one hit. Matt, make a thread made specifically for people to post Wii stuff. Invader Norbert has the right idea!

Aaron, yes, I’ve beaten boss battles on very hard, using Ike(his counter is great against some of the bosses). The best I’ve done on intense is 6, with Ike or possibly Pokemon trainer(Charizard spamming rock smash is a popular method)

Matt, make a thread made specifically for people to post Wii stuff. Invader Norbert has the right idea!

I always thought some kind of page for all game organization would be good, one place to share friend codes, handles, schedule games, trash talk and tech support.

DJ D Good for you by making a healthier lunch. I make my best friend’s lunch for him everyday he works and I try to make it healthy, well rounded but not the same thing everyday. He has a fairly big cooler that I put one of those blue ice plastic packs on the bottom off to one side and it just has enough space on the other side to squeeze in his 2 liter bottle of diet coke.

I have been putting a sandwich ziploc bag each of (about halfway full of all these things) chopped up washed strawberries, wheat thin baked crackers (the new ones that come in a yellow bag), one filled to the brim of half green half purple grapes washed, sometimes cookies if I have them or a little bit of candy, a square big for a single size serving tupperware container just one of those cheap ones of green salad, sugar free jello in one of the medium sized sour cream tubs, two PB and J sandwiches (he got tired of lunch meat and cheese but I used to make those too) or sometimes in the sour cream tub I fill it up with cottage cheese earlier this week I chopped up some tomatoes and put them on the top sometimes I do half a can of fruit cocktail one day in the cottage cheese the other half the next day or pineapple or something like that. Pretty yummy huh DJ D wish I made your lunches?? :) I pride myself on what I make for our dinner and his lunch.

We had a problem with his salad getting soggy when I put the dressing in before he went to work but we solved that problem. I bought one of those salad spritzer little spray bottles (his favorite is french dressing) they are so small I can put it into his cooler and then at work he can spray some on the top. He says it’s not perfect but it works.

That might sound like a lot but mind you he eats about 45 minutes before he goes to work and all that food has to last a 12 hour shift so he snacks on that throughout the night. When he comes home and says he is starving and ate all of the food with 5 hours to go or so left in his shift I feel really guilty. But this last month he has lost his appetite because he’s been sick.

Since we moved here the end of Febuary I have had him go to work without a lunch about 6 times and all those times I couldn’t help it (because I was in a lot of pain, or I slept in) I felt really guilty and I try not to do that again.

He doesn’t have much time to go and make his own lunch, he works too far out in the middle of nowhere to get anything delivered and he said that the vending machine food looks like it’s not worth sacrificing his health to eat it because it’s old. I would rather not make his lunch the night before but in situations where I know I won’t have enough time I should.

The cinnamon rolls came out fine lol but I had a glass full of instant lipton diet ice tea and I while I was moving it so I wouldn’t tip it over totally did. I scrambled to get two towels to soak it all up and it got onto the dough but I don’t think it tastes bad lol. You just have to laugh at yourself in those situations. The cinnamon rolls I have had store bought ones like them before they are more like a dense cakey texture and taste. Good for cinnamon rolls that take less then an hour to make.

I love how you managed to sneak in a Halloween related article in early July! You rock Matt! Happy 4th Everyone! We didn’t get a long weekend up here in Canada this year!

Is this the summer of people leaving sarcastic comments under the name anonymous?

I agree with Bill, that pirate kid didn’t try very hard. There is only one year I phoned in my costume and it was only because it was an impromtu performance. The last year I went trick or treating (I was 13 and I knew this was my last hoorah), a buddy of mime and me just grabbed some masks (I was Eddie from IRON MAIDEN and he was ALF) and we hit up the neighborhood.

Other than that, I have a strong disdain for half-way jobs on costumes and still expecting full candy privileges.
Especially today where the costumes are a million times better than what we had with full/complete ensembles, etc.

Alright, looks like we’re having nonstop rain and thunderstorms all weekend. Crap monkeys!

this may have already been said but there is a twilight zone marathon on sci/fi right now!

I don’t know if I’ll be on brawl today, though…want to watch the Twilight Zone…

AMC is having a Jaws marathon! I can’t wait until Jaws 3 comes on so I can hear Lou Gossett Jr. say “Nooo Grenaaades”. Then it will be an official holiday.
Happy 4th everyone!

I love the Twilight Zone Marathon..unfortunately I’m in Nebraska visiting my husbands relatives…booo

Hey Special K If you are still lurking around this place, happy birthday…I hope you know that since your birthday is July 4th (U.S. Independence Day) and mine is July 1st(Canada Day) that we are birthday rivals…..I’m not sure where Cinco de Mayo birthdays fit in….but I’m sure we can take them. Also,to answer Matt’s question: my 4th of July plans consist of going to my parents house, eating grilled proteins, and having ice cream cake from dairy queen. I told my mom to just pick up one of the “mistake” cakes that they sell with random decoration on them, because that is what I pick out for them. this year, my sister got a tiki head ice cream cake, the tiki heads were just molded/dyed sugar cubes, and they tasted awful.

happy fourth of july, everyone! - i’m off to work.. - it’s kind of an overcast day here in southwestern ohio.. - not the most ideal for jet skis, hot dogs, and fireworks.. - at least the mall closes early tonight so i’ll still have my evening free.. - loved logging on to find a kool-aid post, matt.. - i love that beverage behemoth like it was family..

Speaking of marathons, TBS is playing Saved by the Bell college episodes, and they just went from playing the last episode before the Vegas wedding to one of the early episodes instead of going on to show the wedding. Laaaaaame. I switched to the Twilight Zone. It’s so good I feel kinda guilty about watching something so crappy beforehand.

Sorry Goob, I’m afraid DJ D already officially put me in charge of lunch making. You can cover for me when I go on vacation though

I guess since it is the 4th and Jaws is on I will share my favorite drink recipe called, coincidentally enough, Shark Attack.

1/2 oz. 10 Cane Rum
1/2 oz. Ron Matusalem Gran Reserva
1/2 oz. Lemon Hart Demerara (80 proof)
1/4 oz. Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur
6 drops Absinthe
1 oz. unsweetened pineapple juice
1/2 oz. fresh lime juice
1/2 oz. rock candy syrup
Dash of orange bitters

I have a feeling after I make a pitcher, you maybe reading a post from me like this:
“I stole the neighbor’s cat and lost my shoes. Happy 4th! O’Doyell rules!”

Looking at the boy and considering that it was drawn , I am now wondering why they did not draw a pirate shirt. It wouldn’t have killed the budget for the ad or anything.
Also, I knew there was Apple Kool-Aid, bu I thought it was only from way back when Kool-Aid first came out, not as recently as the 80s.
Tonight we are going to The Taste of Minnesota at the capitol and watching the fireworks, they are supposed to be the biggest in the state. Unless my son crashes too early, which has happened before. But then I can just climb on the roof and watch, which may be better if I decide that traffic is too much to deal with.
Happy 4th!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY YA’LL ! =) I probably won’t be able to post again for the rest of the day, cause i’l be at two different parties. It’s been a little cloudy and rainy so far where I am. Hope that clears up befor tonight, cause I REALLY want to set some fireworks off! Anyway I hope ya’ll have a good 4th. Catch ya later. =)

Happy Independence Day to all you fellow bloggers here on X-E. Anyone interested in a Brawl tournament today, please say so and we’ll set one up!

My local CW station is airing a Gidget marathon. Is it just me, or is broadcast television just plain not as good as it used to be?

I awsn’t knocking Gidget. On the contrary, I felt that the Gidget marathon just shows how lousy modern tv shows are in comparison.

Speaking of Gidget, does anyone remember Suburban Lawns? Someone recently introduced me to one of their videos. Very odd.

As for doing things today, no I’m not. I suggested to the fiance and nephew that we go see a movie and eat something, and then go see some fireworks at the park tonight, but I got ignored several times so fuck it.

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K Town I tried to dye my hair with Kool Aid once, but it didn’t work because my hair is too dark. It just made my hair stiff and sticky. Then when I washed it, the water was all black because I used severa colors/flavors.

Shuanfu if you like Prince’s The Cross, there’s a great cover by Kevin Max you should check out.

I don’t want to sound like I’m blowing you or anything, but I admire your ability to turn anything into a thousand word essay, seriously, I’ve tried, you make this look easy!

On topic of artificial apple flavored drinks, anyone remember when Slice came in apple flavor?

remember when you were young at the cottage and you hid jars of kool aid under your bed so you could lick your finger and stick it into the crystals and then lick your fingers again until your fingers turned brown with the mixture of 400 different mixes and because of the sugar you could never, ever sleep and then ants came and demolished the cottage because of your kool aid powder and then you got in trouble from your parents but not really that much trouble because you were too young to know any better? Do you remember? Of course not, because it wasn’t you who did that… it was me. Happy 4th!

Nothing like BBQing and watching Jaws IV: Revenge of the Velvet Shark.
DJ D, you should be here pal.

Well i’m back ! I had a BLAST too ! I went to see my family at the house of a friend of my grandmas and we did all kinds of stuff. Let me tell ya, that house is AWESOME ! It has a downstairs arcade with all kinds of video games and other things to do. It even has a few bedrooms and a fridge down there too. It’s a BIG house. When I finished eatin all the good food and swimmin, I headed downstairs and played some Wii sports, pinball machine and a pac-man arcade machine that had a bunch of different versions of pac-man on it, as well as alot of other games. Space Invaders, Galaga, DigDug etc. . Then of course we set off some COOL fireworks. Iv’e still got a bunch left and my brother is coming up and bringing some fireworks of his own and were going to set em ALL off. I gotta say I had a GREAT 4th ! =)

You too Josh! Actually, everyone is welcome. And we will top it off with a Tom Atkins movie marathon. “I need a drink…”

I’m here, Twilight Zone marathon on. Went to the Native American festival with the bf, which was pretty cool. Got some feathers and a rainstick. Just chillin’ out now.

I’m about to grill some steaks, burgers and hot dogs, and later me and my brother are going up on the roof with some cold sodas to watch fireworks. And I’m still up for Brawl later! Happy Independence Day, everyone!

Just put back some burgers and chocolate Pie, watching Capital Fourth, and about to head out to meet up with a friend for Fireworks. Should be good times.

I’ll Brawl ANYBODY who’s gonna be online a little later tonight. Sounds like ya’ll had nice times too. =) Good to hear.

Matt i’m about to set my bombs and explosives off in about 5 minutes. I don’t know how long it’ll take me, but it shouldn’t be more than an hour at the most.I should be back to Brawl at about 11:00 P.M Hopefully you’ll still be online cause i’m REALLY itchin for a fight tonight ! =D

Wish I could play with you guys, but I am wii-less. Something tells me I am missing out some great stuff not having a wii. I’m a 33 year old female, married, no kids, going to college, and working part-time. I want a wii. My husband would ask me why I want one, and I would have to answer, “So I can play with these people from the X-E blog”. Then he’ll say “But I thought you wanted a PS3 so you could play Rock Band”.

Right now I just play PC Games. I finally replaced my weak video card with a decent one so now I can play games made after 2001.

Tonight we listened to other people having fun. Lots of booms and blasts going on outside. There are too many trees around to see any of the fireworks. I wanted to go out to the big Houston show, but my husband didn’t feel good. I think the same thing happened last year. So we stayed home, did laundry, ate leftovers and watched a 20-year old VHS documentary on Liberace. We’re just setting the world on fire over here.

I have a friend who lives about 30 miles out of town where fireworks are legal. I asked him if he was going to light some up but he said he’s too broke to buy any.

When I was in 7th grade, some friends of mine and I went through a phase where we filled up empty Bubble Tape containers with pre-sweetened Kool Aid powder and ate it like candy…good stuff.

Arright, you should def. resume kool-aid reviews. I used to check all the time to see if you had written new articles.

Matt, I’m kind of hoping you might consider doing a YouTube video of that incredulous robot voice….

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