X-Entertainment.com Closes, Dinosaur Dracula Coming Soon

I’m a month late post­ing about this, but if I hadn’t had a burn­ing need to re-visit this in-depth arti­cle on Tur­tle Pies today I might have got­ten this news even later than I did:

Matt from X-Entertainment , one of the old­est and best web­sites in the his­tory of ever, has decided to close up shop . As he writes in his lat­est post:

Try this anal­ogy on. It’s a bad one, but try it on any­way.

Let’s say X-E is my car. It’s been a great car. I’ve got­ten a lot of miles out of this car, and it’s taken me to won­der­ful places. But it’s also grown really, really worn, and it’s finally hit a point where it makes more sense to buy some­thing new than to con­tinue putting money/effort into this one.

For the past decade or so, X-Entertainment has been my go-to source for fond remem­brances of all things awe­some from my child­hood. Matt’s site, though a bit rough around the edges and at times hard to nav­i­gate, is like a vir­tual museum of ‘80s pop cul­ture, old toys, cult films, dis­con­tin­ued foods and other lov­ingly curated nuggets of nostalgia.

Just look at some of the things he has in his office:

If you’ve ever thought, “Hey, I won­der if there’s any­body out there who remem­bers __________”, Matt was your guy. And he prob­a­bly wrote a ridicu­lously detailed essay about it. Even though I will never sup­port his assess­ment that The Worst Witch is the most dis­turb­ing movie ever , I love what Matt does and what he’s built over the years.  It’s sites like X-Entertainment that inspired me to start blog­ging in the first place.

What’s Next?

Now Matt is embark­ing on a new jour­ney into nerd­stal­gia with a new web­site that he describes will be  “a ter­rific site, filled with weird and won­der­ful things. Plus what­ever ran­dom crap I find in the clear­ance sec­tion on Ama­zon.” How’s that for a pro­mo­tional teaser?  What­ever Matt has in store for the new ven­ture, it’s name is moth­er­fuck­ing Dinosaur Drac­ula ! If that’s not enough of a rea­son to visit, I don’t know what is.

DinosaurDracula.com will (hope­fully) be launch­ing in June. Until then you can get your nerd on by fol­low­ing Matt on Twit­ter , Tum­blr , and Face­book .

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