09/12/2004 Entry: "Spooky."

Still tweaking up the Halloween stuff -- it looks marvelously Satanic. Figure on a midweek launch. To tide you over, there's a picture of Herman Munster shaking hands with Gomez Addams available to all who click "more."

That should've be an apostrophe at the end of Step 3. Damn.

Chestnuts roasted by SuperRecoome @ 09/12/2004 10:37 PM EST

That's not the first time I've been suckered into arts and crafts with the promise of Munster's pics (Don't ask)

Chestnuts roasted by Gnarkill @ 09/12/2004 10:45 PM EST

I think it would be more fun to find a lollipop inside rather than a wadded up napkin.

Chestnuts roasted by flygrl @ 09/12/2004 11:37 PM EST

what's sad is that i noticed the apostrophe thing too.

Chestnuts roasted by Xero @ 09/12/2004 11:43 PM EST

It seems almost inappropriate to make ghosts out of flowery paper towels, don't you think?

Chestnuts roasted by Ian @ 09/13/2004 12:04 AM EST

It looks like an angry sperm.

Chestnuts roasted by SpaceCataz @ 09/13/2004 12:30 AM EST

The ghost will last longer if you coat it in starch. I have one that I made in 1994 and it's still good. My mom still hangs it up.

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 09/13/2004 12:36 AM EST

Also remember to not use this as a weapon agaist real ghosts, they don't like it and it really buggers them.

Chestnuts roasted by Cambo @ 09/13/2004 12:40 AM EST

Hhhheeeeeeeeyyyyy! You promised a pic of Herman Munster shaking hands with Gomez Adams. You're a big fat liar-head!

MATT'S A BIG FAT LIAR-HEAD!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 09/13/2004 12:53 AM EST

Okay, so Matt isn't really a big fat liar head. I already knew he was joking.

Cool tissue ghost, but I prefer it wrapped over a Tootsie Pop.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 09/13/2004 12:55 AM EST

Man, I'm gonna make me some of those

Chestnuts roasted by SuperStar @ 09/13/2004 01:31 AM EST

I'm super stoked for the Halloween stuff this year. I'm going to be visiting one of your (Matt) favorite spots for the first time next month... Atlantic City! Maybe I can find that "worst game room ever" and cause some carnage. Later!

Chestnuts roasted by Brian Hammons @ 09/13/2004 01:31 AM EST

Y'know, now that I look at it more closely, I can faintly see the flowers on the ghost. That ghost is flowery tart!

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 09/13/2004 01:45 AM EST

heh, those be some silly ghosts...of course that brings back memories of our halloween parties we used to have in elementary school.
Well I don't have much to say really. I've playing a lot of rad racer lately. That game is fuckin wicked!!!!

later

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 09/13/2004 01:46 AM EST

Aww! I used to make those all the time, but out of Kleenex... they were more fragile and the marker always bled, but they were "floatier."

I remember I made about 100 of them when I was little, and taped them to my bedroom ceiling. Ha!

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 09/13/2004 02:24 AM EST

Crummy ghosts....yep, every kid had to make one. I think I actually made one that scared me, somehow. I made it, drew a really ugly toothy face on it, took it home, it fell under the bed, and two months later I reached under and pulled it out. It was a bad face; somehow it actually did scare me.

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 09/13/2004 03:32 AM EST

I think that the stores are a little too eger for Halloween to come and go and get right into the Christmas season this year. There must be some big cache of Yu-GI-OH! stuff waiting to get on the shelves for the yuletide season, so right now they want to rush and sell as many Yami Yugi costumes as they can .
I'm supposing that Yugi is at the peak that Pokemon was in the Christmas 1999 season right now, because of the movie. Every kid who doesn't have a set of the sacred cards will get a set this season, in January never trade the things, buy a few more for themselves and then become uninterested.

I wonder how many nerds will be begging family members to buy that eighty-dollar Sliders DVD set... and how many won't be getting it because a non-reality challanged person would only spend that much on a Star Trek set.
That's what VHS tapes and the Sci-Fi Channel are for, because the show will NEVER stop showing on there!

Chestnuts roasted by AngeFaitore @ 09/13/2004 07:47 AM EST

Where's my herman-gomez action?

Chestnuts roasted by Ant @ 09/13/2004 08:32 AM EST

Aren't cha supposed to wrap the tissue around a blow-pop or a tootsie-pop? Blow pops are scarier, but tootsie-pops are tastier. Boo!

Chestnuts roasted by Blah...blah @ 09/13/2004 09:21 AM EST

Rad Racer is such a great game. The greatest race game ever, with the coolest music.

Chestnuts roasted by JeremyMac @ 09/13/2004 12:29 PM EST

I have a ghost I made by using white garbage bags, a shrink-wrap heat cutter, and a floor fan. Basically, I used the cutter/sealer to construct a passible spook and keeping openings in his arms and on top if his head. then I taped him to the fan (around one called the wind machine) pointing the fan up. The fan keeps him inflated, and adjusted right, he flops around a bit. Put a blinking light underneath, and watch kids go nuts. "Momma! I want one of those next year!" Or, draw a face on the back of a styrofoam plate, staple it along the bottom of a white kitchen trash bag, maybe trim the open end for effect, and you got a ghost to hang up on your porch or, in a tree. Man, I love Hallowe'en!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash in a Charlie Brown-like ghost costume @ 09/13/2004 12:40 PM EST

Herman Munster shaking hands with Gomez Addams is an euphemism.

Chestnuts roasted by dfgdfg @ 09/13/2004 12:41 PM EST

It's definitely crueler to use snotty tissue than a lollipop...just think of the kids eager to open it and get their candy, and all they get is a tissue covered in green snot. Hell, I might do that this year...oh wait, I live in a dorm, no kids come here. Dammit. I was ready to break out the quarters and get goo out of a vending machine for added effect. Stupid college. Stupid hurricane Ivan threatening to come here.

Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 09/13/2004 12:57 PM EST

Mara-I think you have a good idea there. However, I live in a dorm as well and will not be able to it either. But still, I am entertained at the thought of some kid opening up the tissue, expecting a lollipop of some sort, only to find what appears to be a wad of human snot.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 09/13/2004 01:24 PM EST

Okay, fellow x-e readers, I hope someone catches this and can help me out. My co-worker claims that there was a 80s cartoon with 5 guys dressed as birds... the lead guy wore a white costume and threw a bird/dart thing. It's not Silverhawks, and I have no idea what this poor kid is talking about. Lend a brother a hand if you have any clue what i'm talking about.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt (I think i'm the third) @ 09/13/2004 01:55 PM EST

White tissue paper makes some huge floatie ghosts. Also, you could probabky use white grocery store bags.

I made those stick ghosties last year. Take 4-5 dowels and stick 'em the ground in a circle. Jam a styrofoam ball on top of each dowel. Then, drape a sheet over the balls. Cut a hole in the middle, or use two sheets, one for each side of the circle. Then, tie a string in between the "heads" where the sheet droops, to make it look like they're standing in a circle, holding hands. The Dollar Tree by my house has light-up cauldrons that will look spooky in the middle of my ghost circle this year.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 09/13/2004 02:12 PM EST

Matt (I think i'm the third), it was called "Battle of the Planets" aka "G-Force" (When Cartoon Network showed it): www.imdb.com/title/tt0076983/
www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/tv/battle/

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 09/13/2004 02:30 PM EST

Damn Matt, this is the longest you've gone without a new article in quite awhile. Oh well, it will all be worth it for the spook-tastic goodness coming our way in just a few short days. I am over flowing with the bliss.

Chestnuts roasted by The Dude @ 09/13/2004 02:53 PM EST

see also: Eagle Riders, Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. And to a lesser degree, the "S-Force" knuckleheads from Megas XLR.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/13/2004 02:54 PM EST

A week isn't very long at all to go between articles. Just think, the Chia Plot started out way back in February or so. That Chia is dead and long buried, isn't he?

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 09/13/2004 03:34 PM EST

If you make them out of Toostsie Pops then after they are done being ghosts you can peel the paper back and it becomes SuperPop!

Chestnuts roasted by alli @ 09/13/2004 04:02 PM EST

Along with snot rag ghosts (thanks Mara! ; ) you can also mess with any annoying children by switching out Bullion cubes for caramels... unfortunately, you won't be there to see the look on their face, but just the thought alone is well worth the effort...

Chestnuts roasted by Doc @ 09/13/2004 04:49 PM EST

Walking home from school today, I saw the coolest little gadget in one of those kiosks in the mall.

It was a plastic N64 looking controller but it had A/V wires sticking out of it and an AC adapter; Upon further inspection I realised that the proprietor of the kiosk was playing Super Mario Bros. 1, no system, just a "controller"!

When I asked him about it he reset the "controller" and to my delight it had 76,000 (yes seventy-six THOUSAND)games listed in a menu a'la those 31-in-1 or 101-in-1 bootleg carts you used to be able to buy at Flea-markets. It also included a cheap as shit light gun and a second controller which looked Sega Genesis-ish that aparently plugs into the main unit, all selling for $50!

(No I didn't buy one, I'm a broke ass Comp Science student.)

Also, where the rumble pack belonged was a battery pack, no batteries though. Shucks!

I'll see if I can get pics tomorrow...

Now on topic, What is with all the different fonts Matt? I'm sorry but I had to be the one to ask.

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 09/13/2004 04:52 PM EST

I loved the different fonts. Scared the hell out of me, and it's only September.

Chestnuts roasted by Hammer @ 09/13/2004 05:00 PM EST

I think if I were to get a costume this year it would be a Fearless Photog costume with a "Thats so Bitner" t-shirt...

Chestnuts roasted by whitemale_98 @ 09/13/2004 06:19 PM EST

Adams and Munster what a bunch of B.S. Around my hound we not only make those ghost we keep them hangin up all year long. kind of like Xmas lights.

P.S. what was the name of the cartoon in the early to mid nineties that the entire cast was skeletons?

The only Pets Worth having Are Midgets,
\m/Murdoc\m/

Chestnuts roasted by Murdoc_Destrocto @ 09/13/2004 07:23 PM EST

"P.S. what was the name of the cartoon in the early to mid nineties that the entire cast was skeletons?"

You mean The Golden Girls?

Chestnuts roasted by CaptainCaveman @ 09/13/2004 08:29 PM EST

OK...the age old question.....

Munsters or Addams Family, and why?

For myself......while I think Al Lewis and Fred Gwinn had great chemistry and the idea of a Catskills comedian Dracula is oddly amusing, I have to say I prefer Addams Family. I love the semi-literate (for a sitcom anyway) wordplay used in Addams Family scripts, and John Astin's delivery which reminds me of Groucho Marx.

Chestnuts roasted by Garrison @ 09/13/2004 08:44 PM EST

Anyone else find it funny that Matt didn't follow his own directions? It says Tissues or Napkins, yet it looks like he used Paper Towels, which is a whole 'nuther ballgame.

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 09/13/2004 09:06 PM EST

Yes, cool Munster Pix ) ?

Chestnuts roasted by Beta-Theta @ 09/13/2004 09:49 PM EST

Hey Matt, I found something you might be intrested in for the Halloween countdown. I found a little figurine that's part of some monster themed game. But it has a gimmick, it's sorta like if you combined a "Homie" figure with a skeleton. Producing a... yup, you guessed it, "Skelehomie". I have no idea what the games about but there were 2 other figures, 1 was a slimey monster the other was some sorta bug/beast looking guy. Skelehomie was the only intresting one though. Found it for 2 bucks at the local Gamestop, I didn't buy it though, I gots no use for a Skelehomie.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. S @ 09/13/2004 10:10 PM EST

Murdoc_Destrocto, "Skeleton Warriors" was the name of the show.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0108928/
www.bigredtoybox.com/cgi-bin/toynfo.pl?skeletonindex
www.neversoft.com/sw/Welcome.html

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 09/13/2004 11:07 PM EST

To make it more X-E themed, Matt coulda used a Spider-Man paper towel to make the ghost.

Chestnuts roasted by Luap @ 09/13/2004 11:59 PM EST

Speaking of which...

http://www.brawnyman.com/spiderman.html

Chestnuts roasted by Luap @ 09/14/2004 12:01 AM EST

Skeletons -

"You mean the Golden Girls?"

Mwahahahaaaaaa, Heeeheeeheeee, whooohooohoooo! Hic! heeheeheee.

Mmmmm, Halloween. Pointless ancient British demon-placating ritual, turned into fun plastic-fantastic modern American demon-placating ritual. Wow.

Here's fun idea: hang long strands of thin black sewing-cotton from ceiling all along hallway btw party and the toilets... screams guranteed, especially if hallway is dark. Spider-webs, y'see. If you want screams of sticky anger, tie little knots along lengths of cotton strands, and dab each knot with some honey. Guaranteed to make people angry, sticky and yelling for more. More death, possibly yours, as hired Cleopatra/Redhornydevil costumes must be drycleaned now...

Great fun had by all. Could make little cardboard round ball filled with cheap hard candies to make ghost... rattling is nice scary touch, also can be used as pacifier.

Chestnuts roasted by Eternal Sunshine of the Feckless Mole @ 09/14/2004 03:47 AM EST

Are you ready to dance with the devil? I cant wait to get this party started X-E style.

Chestnuts roasted by pulseczar @ 09/14/2004 06:28 AM EST

THanx
P.S. If i had the chance to nail any of the golden girls it would definatly be the Bea Arther
P.P.S Matt i am asking... no begging you to finish the chia pet fiasco
xoxoxoxo

Chestnuts roasted by Murdoc_again...to @ 09/14/2004 11:21 AM EST

I bought a wireless speaker set-up earlier this year, and am thinking of buying a couple of skull-shaped pails this year and putting the battery-powered speakers in them and hanging them up in the tree by my window. Play a spooky sounds cd and let the noggins sway in the breeze. I might not even wait for All Hallows to do that. Hmmm....

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/14/2004 11:46 AM EST

I wouldn't be caught dead shaking that goofy bastards hand.

Chestnuts roasted by Gomez Addams @ 09/14/2004 12:32 PM EST

the kay bee in the mall near me still has those skeleton warrior figs in their clearence area. a lot of them

Chestnuts roasted by billionsknivez @ 09/14/2004 02:04 PM EST

Hey, Gomez, at least you're still six feet above ground.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 09/14/2004 03:21 PM EST

Aww, I remember making about a dozen of these little tissue ghosts to decorate my house when I was younger. We used to also draw on our big front mirror with black and white shoe polish. It was quite the event.

I first found this site around halloweeen last year, so I look forward to the fun with a special fondness

Chestnuts roasted by Jeeto @ 09/14/2004 04:46 PM EST

Do you put these outside?

What if it rains (or snow)?

Hey, maybe it'll snow early this year so I can make snow ghosts...

I'm too lazy to do this, I buy the little plastic bags at the dollar store, they have ghosts and pumpkins, all printed with faces, and I stuff them with newspaper. Trust me, the stuff inside is scarier than the outside.

The skeleton series from the 1990's... Ally McBeal?

Chestnuts roasted by Yzziefrog @ 09/14/2004 05:42 PM EST

i think i might have to bring out the penis costume again....either that or a giant hot dog with 2 pals dressed as condiments.

Chestnuts roasted by 1215 @ 09/14/2004 06:09 PM EST

What is your favorite costume you've ever had?
I remeber being michael jackson in 84 with the glove and all. good times. before he was wacko jacko.

Chestnuts roasted by turkeys can't fly? @ 09/14/2004 06:53 PM EST

Ever fill a latex glove with water? When I lived in Philly we did this every year, we'd make dozens of them and hang them on the porch. Not much trick to it, just get a box of latex doctor's gloves and fill em with room-temp water, tie the "wrists" like balloon ends and string em up. Great ghoulish bloated-corpse feeling walking through a forest of them. The ghosts are cool too though, don't get me wrong.

Chestnuts roasted by Reed @ 09/14/2004 07:49 PM EST

The Munsters kicks the Adams Family's ass. The only thing the Adams have goin for them are good movies. I always loved the Munsters.

Chestnuts roasted by Walks @ 09/14/2004 09:35 PM EST

Lollipops > wadded up flowered paper towels.

ALWAYS!

Chestnuts roasted by Meg @ 09/15/2004 01:17 AM EST

Cyanyde -

My friend has that same thing. Most of the games are awful and there isn't really 76,000... It's like the same 30 repeating.

Chestnuts roasted by RewolfJ @ 09/15/2004 02:12 AM EST

FYI: Halloween X-E is juuuust about done, and looking good. Could probably launch tonight, but it'd be about 70%, and I'd rather wait the extra day or two and give you all the goodies. (speaking of which, it's being launched not just with the spooky design, but with new content...a good amount of it)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/15/2004 10:26 AM EST

Wow matt you must be one busy little bugger : (

Chestnuts roasted by ArcticOrange @ 09/15/2004 03:21 PM EST

Damn Matt. You must be workin' your ass off on the up and coming Halloween motif, because I haven't seen an update for days now. Seems like it's gonna be a real helluva layout. I'm looking forward to it, so don't disappoint me.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 09/15/2004 03:56 PM EST

To Cyanide: those crooks are everywhere now. Check out this thread for more:

http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=121341

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 09/15/2004 05:47 PM EST

Yeh, Mars, I'm seen crooks everyone too, especially at Newpor on the Levee, an entertainment district in Northern Kentucky.

Chestnuts roasted by Beta-Theta @ 09/15/2004 10:41 PM EST

Also, lately, I'm seeing people selling hermit crabs, is that still legal?

Chestnuts roasted by Beta-Theta @ 09/15/2004 10:43 PM EST

Alright, figure someone here will know.

There was a game for the SNES, I think it's name started with G.. it was two players, and you played as ninjas. It was a side scroller kind've like Joe and Mac, but one of the weapons you could use was a pipe.. the tobacco smoking kind. Anyone know the name of this damn game? It's been bugging me for awhile.

Chestnuts roasted by John Dyne @ 09/16/2004 04:01 AM EST

John: You are probably referring to the Ganbare Goemon series of games, released in the West under the title "Legend of the Mystical Ninja".

Chestnuts roasted by Ginrai @ 09/16/2004 07:14 AM EST

I hate that rip-off console they sell on QVC. One is called 'Speed Racer' and uses the Super Out-Run engine.

Chestnuts roasted by AngeFaitore @ 09/16/2004 10:20 AM EST

*yaawwwn* I'm boooored! No new posts! No new chia! :/

What about Halloween Chia? Even just an interlude would be fun. In the vein of "Spiderman Reviews Crayons", which was bloody hilarious. Mmmm.... everyone hanging out and playing silly games, ripping Snake-eye's legs of and saying: "C'mon, then, scream! Ahahaha!" (sorry - watched Once upon a Time in Mexico today. Trippeeeeee). Dunking Cobra Commander in Heman slime pit, all kindsa fun. G'waaan - I know you wanna.

Chestnuts roasted by Eternal Sunshine of the Feckless Mole @ 09/16/2004 11:38 AM EST

mars, cyanide, et al; put these phrases into you fave search engine: NES clones, Famiclones, portable NES. Some of the games are actually ROM hacks of games already on the things. The 64-lookin' doo-hickey is a bootleg Famicom "on a chip", that is what the slot on the bottom is for, Famicom carts. So if you have one, go to you local import game store and go nuts! I have a 3-in-one game that looks like a DDR pad, it has a dance game, Nintendo Pinball (with all refs to N removed), and Tengen's version of Tetris (with Tengen refs removed). But you have to play the last two by stomping on the dance pad. Four AA batteries, plug up the AV cables, and go!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/16/2004 11:59 AM EST

C'mon! Get spooky already! It's killing me!
No pressure Matt, just looking forward to it.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 09/16/2004 01:11 PM EST

I'm just came back from eating at
Wendy's, and there a contest to win a trip to the Nintendo headquarter in the US. Also, their kids meal is Mario-related. I got a small mario plush. I know that Matt is into Nintendo-related items.

I guess I have to wait a little longer for Matt to update

Chestnuts roasted by Beta-Theta @ 09/16/2004 01:29 PM EST

I hope Super-Articlated Spidey and Unicron go Trick-or-Treating. They can both give the finger to the places that give the crap treats. And Monster Planet has places to hide the good chocolate from the Wall-Crawler. "Hey! Galactus gave us pennies!" Unicron's chest panel opens up...

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/16/2004 01:48 PM EST

The spooky hits on Friday night. It's worth the wait.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/16/2004 01:50 PM EST

Gah, I can't wait for it matt...seriously. I have been checking here like every half hour at work. Can you at least give us a hint? Something to whet out appetites?

Chestnuts roasted by Goody @ 09/16/2004 02:07 PM EST

Good to hear, Matt. Keep the good work, and let us know if the spooky gets postponed.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 09/16/2004 02:12 PM EST

Well, for one you can say farewell to X-E Version Ugly. The new design is just a whole lot cleaner. As for content, it'll launch with a bunch of it, but the good stuff really starts this weekend.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/16/2004 02:16 PM EST

I don't think the current design is ugly. I kinda like it with all of its depictions of pop culture items of the past. However, I do look forward to the new layout.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 09/16/2004 02:20 PM EST

New design?!? Spooky hitting?!?! Can't wait to see it. You've apparently been busy, and I've apparently just been busted by my boss mid-post. Oh well, not the first time. Put in a good word for me at Nick.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 09/16/2004 02:39 PM EST

Ah pooh, this weekend Im gonna be stuck in kansas that day. I loathe kansas. LOATHE it. lol

Chestnuts roasted by ArcticOrange @ 09/16/2004 02:41 PM EST

I'd so hit the spooky. In fact, I will. (This is why ghosts have black eyes).

Chestnuts roasted by Niq @ 09/16/2004 02:43 PM EST

It's a dead man's party, who could ask for more?
Every one come and leave your body at the door!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/16/2004 03:22 PM EST

Matt-I've been away, so I don't know if this has been mentioned or not, but if you could have something, ANYTHING about the "Ghostbusters Halloween Special" this year I would be one happy girl! That show rocked. (As did Garfield's Halloween special of course)

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 09/16/2004 04:19 PM EST

It's being covered, MB.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/16/2004 04:31 PM EST

Matt-Aww, man. Wish I still had my Slimer trick-or-treating bucket. That'd be the perfect supplement to the GB Halloween Special article. Ah well. I'm sure it will be a great article nonetheless, and one that I can't wait to read.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 09/16/2004 05:58 PM EST

Hmm... what's the difference between western kiddy arts-and-craft "ghosts" made out of Kleenex and Japanese teruterubozu rain-repelling charms, really? (You can see a better explanation of teruterubozu in the classic Urusei Yatsura episode "A Beautiful Girl Comes With the Rain" (episode 30), and, to use a slightly less obscure anime example, teruterubozu are the things you see bouncing around happily while the "cabbit" Ryo-Ohki patiently waits for her carrot to grow during the few seconds that it's raining in the original ending credits sequence for Tenchi Muyo!.)

Matt (I think I'm the third): I concur that it's probably Battle of the Planets, the heavily-Americanized-with-toned-down-violence version of the Japanese anime series Ninja Science Team GATCHAMAN, which I recently wrote about when writing about my childhood.

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 09/16/2004 06:19 PM EST

Gin - That's the one, thanks. I knew the 'Goemon' part and was boggling over why the hell I couldn't find it, because I thought that was the start of it. Thanks.

Chestnuts roasted by John Dyne @ 09/16/2004 07:57 PM EST

Guess what, guys? I'm going to the fair this weekend! Yay!
I'll try to win a prize, maybe a Pokemon toy or something XE-related so I can brag on the blog

Chestnuts roasted by AngeFaitore @ 09/16/2004 09:30 PM EST

matt, i keep sending you e-mails about these three bootleg Madballs candle i have that i'll send you, FOR FREE, but you won't respond! (cries)

they even slighty changed the colors and details on them!

Chestnuts roasted by packratshow @ 09/16/2004 09:41 PM EST

Hooray for Bootlegs! lol

Chestnuts roasted by ArcticOrange @ 09/16/2004 09:51 PM EST

Finally, some words from Matt. Friday it is.

Chestnuts roasted by Beta-Theta @ 09/16/2004 11:00 PM EST

Now I'm just posting for no reason other than the fact that I felt like posting. Matt's putting up the Halloween stuff tomorrow, and I happen to have no classers tomorrow. Hmmm...well...I guess I'll just hit the gym (and yes, I do actually work out).

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 09/17/2004 12:31 AM EST

I'm sooo ready for Halloween.

I was at Target today and picked up some decorations, including a spiderweb candle holder, and a wrought iron looking basket with witches, moons, bats, and stuff on it. Pretty cool.

Anyhow, speaking of Target, and being slightly off topic, I inadvertantly walked down the Spiderman toy ailse, and as I look to my left, there they were -

Spidey Wall Crawlers.

$5.98 FOR ONE! What the?! I was about to go hunt down someone and ask why they weren't 2 bucks, like Matt's were! But, I didn't. I just scoffed, and after looking at the only 2 they had (they had the evil guy from the new movie - he was neon green) I moved on.

Maybe one day I'll find them stuck in a clearance bin somewhere for 2 bucks. Hopefully they'll still be gooey.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 09/17/2004 12:54 AM EST

I just wet my pants in fear

Chestnuts roasted by gaz @ 09/17/2004 07:29 AM EST

I wet your pants in fear, too.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/17/2004 11:21 AM EST

Nice to hear that the Ghostbusters Halloween Special is getting a nod this year. I knew Matt wouldn't let me down!

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 09/17/2004 01:18 PM EST

It's Friday! I wet my pants in anticipation.
OK, I admit it. I just have control issues.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 09/17/2004 01:20 PM EST

Anybody know what this is?

Picture

Chestnuts roasted by Goolump @ 09/17/2004 01:22 PM EST

Fuck

http://home.twcny.rr.com/goolump/monster.jpg

Chestnuts roasted by Goolump @ 09/17/2004 01:23 PM EST

why am i banned from posting? really wierd...

Chestnuts roasted by re-ree @ 09/17/2004 01:27 PM EST

Goolump: I don't know but its eerily compelling....I want one.

Chestnuts roasted by Reed @ 09/17/2004 01:38 PM EST

It says Tonka on the bottom, but no year. I've had for +10. Scares the hell out of my cat, too.

Chestnuts roasted by Goolump @ 09/17/2004 01:41 PM EST

Woo. Just finished reading about a odd clown-related incident on Fark. I'm not scared of clowns, but seeing a couple hundred Ronald McDonald dolls lined up on a rural road late at night might just do it for me. Matt's We'en stuff can't start too soon for me. "I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks, I do, I do, I do...."

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/17/2004 01:44 PM EST

Gnarly-Bull?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/17/2004 01:46 PM EST

Did you make that up, or is that really what it's called?

Sounds cool anyway.

Chestnuts roasted by Goolump @ 09/17/2004 01:57 PM EST

Yeah, looks like something out of Rock Lords' Rock Narlies to me. A good big one.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/17/2004 02:00 PM EST

I spend 3 days in a gym full of people waiting for hurricane Ivan to hit (which it didn't, it missed us) and nothing has changed here? Wow.

Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 09/17/2004 02:00 PM EST

Holy hell, thanks Matt!

Apparently I own the King of Evil Narlies.

Chestnuts roasted by Goolump @ 09/17/2004 02:04 PM EST

Man I can't believe I went for so long before discovering this site...it's like the mecca for all things I think are cool.

Looking forward to the spookiness with great gusto.

Chestnuts roasted by Reed @ 09/17/2004 04:24 PM EST

I came for the Pop Culture, and stayed for the Postings.

The only site with a two-Peep minimum.

Try the hand-tossed Chia Salad.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/17/2004 05:04 PM EST

Well...It's Friday...Haven't seen an update yet...Where's my spooky reading fix?

Guess I'll have to go read Judge Parker again...

Chestnuts roasted by Hammer @ 09/17/2004 05:19 PM EST

At least you didn't have to take test in physilogy today.

Chestnuts roasted by Beta-Theta @ 09/17/2004 05:35 PM EST

or physiology, for that matter

Chestnuts roasted by Shelby @ 09/17/2004 06:03 PM EST

could you maybe fire up the links to last years halloween extravamundo commercials?

Chestnuts roasted by Bebop @ 09/17/2004 08:38 PM EST

Spelling Nazi!

Chestnuts roasted by J @ 09/17/2004 08:46 PM EST

Okay, Okay I made a spelling error, I had hard day today.

Chestnuts roasted by Beta-Theta @ 09/17/2004 10:30 PM EST

Co bra la la la la la la la, (cough) Chia plot.

Chestnuts roasted by Ciziten from Cobra-La @ 09/17/2004 10:32 PM EST

My mom lived down the street from Gwynne as a kid. Really. At least that's what she always told me. According to IMDB, though, he "lived a quiet life in suburban Bedford, New York, and...in a renovated farmhouse in rural Taneytown, Maryland" which seems to invalidate Mom's tale. Somebody has some explaining to do.

It's 8:40 PST and still no spooky, but the anticipation is sweet. I have the feeling I won't be the only one hanging in the blog all evening.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 09/17/2004 11:43 PM EST

You'll be up raal late to catch it, but tonight's the night.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/17/2004 11:45 PM EST

Alvin & His Chipmunks Are Back
www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040915c.php

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 09/18/2004 12:12 AM EST

GAH! Why are they bringing back the Chipmunks? Leave them in the 20th centuary. Jesus, are corperations that desperate for money?

Chestnuts roasted by Psuedo Bohemian @ 09/18/2004 12:24 AM EST

You know what I just saw at work (I work at TRU) tonight that made me shake my head with utter disdain?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00026FX6S/qid=1095484930/sr=1-22/ref=sr_1_22/002-3382118-6500028?v=glance&s=toys

(Sorry if that doesn't show up as a link, I'm not sure if this thing works on html or codes, and I'm too lazy to find out. )

But, yeah ...just look at that. I mean, yeah, it's good to get kids excersizing, if this would even *do* that, but the most disturbing part of it is that it sings "Let's get Physical" ... Yeah, that old song (who sang that? Olivia Newton John?) talking about sex, with the half naked men in the video. What the hell?! I wanted to take them off the shelf...

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 09/18/2004 01:32 AM EST

Well now I have to stay up

And just like that, the high I get from Halloween-y anticipation comes crashng down. From ME's link: Much like what Fox recently did with "Garfield: The Movie," the role of Dave Seville, the Chipmunks' adoptive father, will be live-action, whilst the Chipmunks - Alvin, Simon and Theodore - are to be computer-animated.

More chilling words have never been written. Seems somehow fitting, given the season.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 09/18/2004 01:48 AM EST

Just got back home, thought I'd kill some time by goin bowling

Still waitin' on the spookification, but one thing I do know is that it'll be worth it. I'll be with ya all night Matt!

Chestnuts roasted by Chilipeppers @ 09/18/2004 02:22 AM EST

I'm here, don't you worry. Still gonna be a while but it'll be WORTH blah.bbllah.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/18/2004 02:28 AM EST

^Awesome So we're talking a new article everyday for 45 days? W00tness

Chestnuts roasted by Chilipeppers @ 09/18/2004 02:40 AM EST

Yehup. Short articles, but yes.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/18/2004 02:41 AM EST

Hey, short articles are still articles in my opinion. Besides, this being one of my favorite websites, I just like to see updates, no matter the size.

Chestnuts roasted by Chilipeppers @ 09/18/2004 02:54 AM EST

This is the last post before the next. Thank you.

Chestnuts roasted by NEO @ 09/18/2004 02:55 AM EST

Almost 4 am here... Still no spooky?

Chestnuts roasted by Cuddles @ 09/18/2004 03:50 AM EST

T-minus...

Well, soon.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/18/2004 03:51 AM EST

Must....see...spooky...before...sleep

Chestnuts roasted by Chilipeppers @ 09/18/2004 03:57 AM EST

Oooh, spooky stickers added to the trapperkeeper!

Chestnuts roasted by Chilipeppers @ 09/18/2004 04:20 AM EST

Hmmm. There's late, and then there's late. Besides, I think Chilipeppers is going to beat me when it comes to the 'oooh ooooh, it's up!' post, so I guess I'll retire from the update watching and get some sleep. Maybe if I had a specific T-Minus...

Isn't it like, morning over there by now? I hope you didn't lose your beauty sleep just for little old us.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 09/18/2004 04:57 AM EST

Well a buddy popped on Aim, so I maintained the vigil for as long as I could, but it's blatantly Not Friday Night Anymore and X-Entertainment still isn't spooky yet. I'm throwing in the towel. Update Watcher out. Holla.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 09/18/2004 06:08 AM EST

Im excited now with the little Super Mario Bros. ghosts!!!

Chestnuts roasted by pulseczar @ 09/18/2004 06:12 AM EST

I'm not still up because I'm waiting for the update. I'm still up because I cannot sleep. And no, it is not sleep lost over the new update. It is sleep lost over a girl whom I've just met today. In terms of physique and personality, she's virtually perfect. The problem? A dormie of mine got to her first, and she seems to be reciprocating. I also kinda like her roommate, but she's too damn shy, and so am I.

Anyway, maybe the new Halloween stuff will brighten my spirits, and perhaps even help me in some sort of odd way. I admit, this site can be quite therapeutic. Thank you, Matt.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 09/18/2004 07:02 AM EST

By the way, I was somewhat drunk tonight (or should I say "last night" when I met these girls, so you'd expect that I would've crashed by now. Apparently, that's not the case.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 09/18/2004 07:05 AM EST

It's Saturday afternoon! Central African Time! That means ::mutters careful calculations:: some time in the morning EST! What happened to Matt? Swallowed by the Gnarlyball? [ ::yells in background:: Oy! Kingklash! Get your gnarlyball Matt-extractor out pronto! ]

Chiiiiia!

I agree: rows of Ronald McDonald clown dolls along rural road bloody creepy. Must think up some sort of S'affriccen counterpart. Mmm, squashed hamburglars, perhaps?

Now I wanna travel to US just to see big Halloween weird and get chocolate... Although I hear that American chocolate not very nice... more easy to class as cheese - or maybe 'tile grout', so will stay in S.A. and try to get job in Nestle factory, although Cadbury soooo much better. If you work for chocolate factory, you can eat as much as you like on the floor, but you can't take any home. Bummer. Nothing beats a Marsbar, though. ::drools::

Dammit, now i'm craving.

Chestnuts roasted by eminentfreakthemighty! @ 09/18/2004 08:42 AM EST

Spooky? Spooookyyyyyyyy???!

Chestnuts roasted by Toshiro @ 09/18/2004 09:10 AM EST

poor Nate.

You want my advice?

good, you're getting it anyways. I say f the stupid twit. You don't need the girls. All you need is a nintendo, a beer, and the love of a good webpage. All of which may be found at x-e.

Spooky, however, is still AWOL...

Chestnuts roasted by Whirred @ 09/18/2004 09:48 AM EST

Well, the trapper keeper changed to pumpkins while I was reading the Blog, so I'm guessing the design is slowly being put up right now.

Chestnuts roasted by SuperRecoome @ 09/18/2004 10:12 AM EST

I think the new site is so spooky satan himself popped out the webpage and ate matt.

or something.

Chestnuts roasted by gaz @ 09/18/2004 10:43 AM EST

I had Boo Berry for breakfast...mmmm. I'm spooky-fortified and ready for X-E Halloween goodness!

Chestnuts roasted by ChesterCopperpot @ 09/18/2004 11:41 AM EST

I had to go to bed, I couldn't stay up any later... saturday morning, still no spookiness

^ChesterCopperpot, you must be a Goonies fan. Me too

^Nate, I know how you feel. I'm involved with a girl right now, and she's got me all crazy insisde. Alot of nights I can't sleep because I can't stop thinking about her

Chestnuts roasted by Chilipeppers @ 09/18/2004 12:13 PM EST

eminentfreakthemighty!: You could always travel to Canada for Hallowe'en; it's pretty much like the United States, but with much better chocolate: Aero! Coffee Crisp! Crispy Crunch! Smarties (the British kind)! Orange Aero! (Actually, I've never seen the small "fun size" versions, the size of chocolate bar most non-rich people give to kids, of Orange Aero sold outside of Britain, just the normal-size bars.)

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 09/18/2004 01:15 PM EST

WHERE THE SPOOKY!?

Chestnuts roasted by Dark Penguin @ 09/18/2004 01:29 PM EST

Spooky? Spooky where are you?

Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 09/18/2004 01:54 PM EST

went to the homepage, still no Spooky. Guess I'll have to read thumb wrestling again (4th time today, *counts* 7th time since getting back to school).

Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 09/18/2004 01:56 PM EST

that's...pretty sad Mara.

Chestnuts roasted by Whirred @ 09/18/2004 02:01 PM EST

You want Spooky? Here's Spooky.

If Casper is the ghost of Richie Rich, Spooky must be the ghost of Richie's cousin, Reggie Van Dough.

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 09/18/2004 02:11 PM EST

Know what I think? This update, aside from the stickers, is a ghost update. It's up, but it's invisible! Now, what I want is a FPS-style GhostBusters game. With upgrades for the Proton Packs, ability to get stronger Traps, and sending Slimer out to scout and/or decoy various spooks. Even unlockable Extreme GB characters plus Louis and Janine. Imagine a 3D modelled Boogyman! Ecto-1 driving mode! Why no-one put one out yet, is a mystery.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash treed by a Terror Dog @ 09/18/2004 02:37 PM EST

Whirred-I can't just forget about her. And thingsd like beer and X-E and other cool stuff can't replace the need for belonging in someone's life, and that person belonging in yours. However, that's not to say that I don't still look forward to the Halloween motif, which is in fact still AWOL

Chilpeppers-Thak you for understanding.

Steve Brandon-Canada does have SOME better stuff (and not just Halloween stuff, for the beer is far better here too). However, I must say that our M&Ms, outdo your smarties.

For those of you who don't know, Smarties are not those chalky little tablets as we know them to be in the US (they're called "Rockets" in Canada). Instead, Smarties are more or less like that of M&Ms. They're chocolate coated with thin hardened sugar and dye, but the chocalte is a bit nastier than M&Ms. I must also say that I like our version of "Smarties" better.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that the US is superior in any way. This is justg an honest and silly opinion about candy. So don't take me personally, Steve. Besides, there are plenty of things that I like better about Canada.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 09/18/2004 03:21 PM EST

Mmmmm. Smarties rule, oreo's taste like cocoa-milkpowder flavoured cardboard. Yuck.

Canadians are just a leetle bit sooper-silly-ous, don't you find? Overheard a conversation t'other day - how patronising can one bunch of people be?

If you haven't tasted Cadbury's flake, you have - not - lived!!!!

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Chestnuts roasted by student loan consolidation @ 11/06/2004 02:59 AM EST