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Yesterday I wrote about the worst Halloween Candy. Today, I flip things around and write about the best Halloween candy. The following results come me, myself, and I. Feel free to disagree!

10. Nestle Crunch Bars
Nothing like a great crunch to a candy bar. They usually come in one piece that’s dividable, but let’s be honest, we all eat the whole thing at once.

9. Three Musketeers
This is probably the healthiest of the non-healthy candy bars. It’s reminiscent of the old “Milkshake” candy bars of days before.

8. Almond Joy
I’m not a huge coconut fan, but there’s something about chocolate, coconut, and 1 almond that tastes delicious!

7. Twix
After forgotten in the realm of the major candy bars, Twix still tastes like one of the best. The new peanut butter flavor tastes incredible too!

6. Skittles
Had to veer away from chocolate at some point, didn’t I? Some divide them by color, some eat them one by one, and some eat the whole pack at once. No matter your method, this fruit candy is quite satisfying!

5. Butterfinger
A favorite of Bart Simpson and many others. It crumbles when you eat and and can make a mess. It also seems to get stuck in your teeth. Yet there’s something so delicious about a Butterfinger that we can’t pass up.

4. Kit-Kat
“Give me a break, give me a break, break me off a piece of that…” Great taste, and it comes in packs of 2’s and 4’s so you actually feel like you get more than one candy bar in a pack.

3. M&Ms
Their commercials are awesome and they are awesome. Even though they all taste the same, we all have a favorite color anyway.

2. Reese’s Cups
Peanut butter and chocolate. This is classic! It came very close to capturing the top spot but just couldn’t pull it out. Still, this is one of the greatest candies you can find any time of the year.

1. Snickers
Variations have been tried with Snickers, and they’ve all been wonderful! Whether you eat it with almonds, fudge, crunch, dark chocolate, or a weird Transformers add-in, Snickers can always satisfy your hunger. Hungry? Why Wait? Grab a Snickers!

Honorable mentions:

Baby Ruth
Milky Way
Junior Mints
Hershey’s Miniatures
Starbursts
Nerds
Sour Patch Kids

What is the worst Halloween candy? Here is a Top 10 List of the Worst Halloween Candy ever according to Kidzworld.com:

10. Apples
9. Raisins
8. Candy Corn
7. Baked Goods
6. Dum Dum Suckers
5. Toothbrushes
4. Tootsie Rolls
3. Misc. Hard Candy
2. Dusty Jelly Beans
1. Fun-Sized Chocolate

Since I happen to disagree with most of that list, I thought I would make my own:

10. Raisins
Yes, I know they’re healthy, but they also come in box the size of a postage stamp. When kids are craving chocolate and sugar, 10 raisins that have been squished together to make 1 giant size ball of gunk is not too appealing.

9. Candy Corn
Candy Corn can be good, but for some reason, on Halloween it never is. I enjoy eating the pumpkin variations of Candy Corn, and even some Candy Corn that is fresh and right out of the bag tastes good. But for some reason, the Candy Corn you receive on Halloween is always stale, hard, and tastes like rocks.

8. Pennies
Not the candy, the food. Seriously, what am I going to do with 6 pennies?

7. Circus Peanuts
The texture isn’t even describable. I would have to guess that it’s comparable to eating insulation. However, I wouldn’t suggest either for safety reasons.

6. Smarties
These things are like the red-headed stepchild of Sweet Tarts. They’re not tangy, they’re not sour…they just taste like nasty sugar that’s gone bad. Has anyone ever eaten these things and not made that “Eww” face afterward?

5. Black Licorice
WHY do they sell this stuff? Only 4 people in the world have ever liked it, and I’m pretty sure they’re not alive anymore. As if it’s not bad enough, some wise guy decided to make scented black markers smell just like this stuff. Gross!

4. Mary Jane’s
Shares it’s name with marijuana. Both are bad for you. Just say “no.”

3. Dots (or anything that is “supposed” to be chewy)
Throw Dots, Mike and Ike’s, Good and Plenty, and all that “chewy” junk in here. If it’s supposed to be chewy, but Halloween it’s probably not. The only thing worse than eating these things was trying to get them out of my teeth. I tried a toothbrush, floss, a paint scraper, an ice pick, and even a dentist visit and still couldn’t get that gummy stuff out of my teeth. I don’t think they have even flavor…they just stick to every part of you like superglue.

2. Bit-O-Honey
I’ve never met someone who ate honey for the fun of it. So why make a candy that is strictly honey? No chocolate, no nuts, just honey. Bit-O-Blah!

1. Peanut Butter Kisses (The black and orange wrapped peanut butter junk)
These things are almost famous for being disgusting! No one is quite sure what they are. They say peanut butter, but I’d beg to differ. When I was younger my parents tried to keep me from eating them. They told me bad people might unwrap them and put razor blades in them and wrap them back up. I don’t think they really believed that. I think they just wanted to keep me from eating the nastiest stuff ever.

Honorable Mentions:

Peeps
This is an Easter candy; not a Halloween candy. But at any time, it’s still fake marshmallows coated in sugar. They’re really just a heart attack in a box.

Gospel Tracts
Even as a Christian kid, I hated getting tracts in my bag that said “Halloween is Satanic! Turn or burn!!!” If you really wanted to get my attention you’d put a verse of Scripture on a Snickers bar.

Unlabeled Hard Candy
If you were ever skeptical about this stuff, good! It seems like old people always carry this kind of candy in their pocket. Maybe the lack of a label is supposed to surprise us, but tasting rotten butterscotch or expired strawberry isn’t exactly on my list of great things.

Did that commercial offend you? Many people are answering “Yes.”

DirecTV has started using famous clips from movies to promote their products. Using movies such as Alien, King Kong, and Back to the Future, the ads appear to be an exact scene from the movie, but during the scene one of the characters steps “out of character” and gives a brief promo for the satellite company.

An NBC affiliate in the Dallas-Fort Worth area had this (sarcastic comment) to say: Indeed, Spade could be at home with DirecTV. Instead, he’s with the ghost of his famous friend, who died as a result of a drug problem that almost certainly stemmed from massive insecurities, and making a (bad) fat joke about him. HILARIOUS!

Here’s what The Consumerist had to say: Is anyone else skeeved out over the DirecTV ad?…It’s bizarre that Spade, a close pal of Farley’s went along with this. He and DirecTV must have miscalculated the ad as a tribute to a great movie moment rather than a disturbing, insensitive money grab.

What do you think? Are you offended by the commercial? Is David Spade exploiting Chris Farley? Is this “too soon?” Or is this a fitting tribute to a late actor and comedy from 1995?

Not pictured: My plunger

This is awesome! And perfect relaxation music for a Friday. He was 10 years old when he did this.

Earlier today, I was doing some research on Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy) for an article I’m writing. Without a doubt, MacFarlane has a huge influence over teenagers and young adults. They got me thinking: Who are the most influential celebrities? In other words, what celebrities have the most input/influence over the development and shaping of our culture?

One publication named Zac Efron as the most influential celebrity. I tend to disagree.

Here are some people who I think make that list (in no particular order):

Seth MacFarlane
Beyonce
Lorne Michaels (SNL)
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
Ashton Kutcher
J.J. Abrams
Stephenie Meyer
Barack Obama
Bono
Oprah
Simon Cowell
Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone (Twitter)
Tiger Woods
Miley Cyrus
Michael Jordan
Steve Jobs
Judd Apatow
Kanye West
Michael Jackson

If you think of more, please feel free to comment and add your own list. I’m very curious to see the results. I’m not instituting a “Vote for your Favorite Celebrity.” Instead, I want to see what factors make someone so influential. Is it talent, skill, ability, being in the right place at the right time, being born into wealth, etc?

This video has been on YouTube since 2006 so I know I’m a little slow in discovering it. But I found it hilarious and had to post it on here!

By now we’ve all heard about Balloon Boy. Every station is playing the story…over and over and over and over. When new details emerge, we hear those over and over and over and over.

Despite the story being a hoax, somewhere the crazy family behind the fiasco has to be smiling.

They did this for a publicity stunt. What has happened? They got publicity! Even though the story sounded fishy to begin with, the media jumped all over it. They were being interviewed by Wolf Blitzer before the smoke had even settled.

However, thanks to that interview, we now have valuable information that says the story was made up.

But for that family, you can’t buy this kind of publicity. Their appearances on Wifeswap didn’t generate a fraction of this. This morning, Mike Glenn, the Senior Pastor at Brentwood Baptist in Nashville, TN wrote on Twitter: I know it says a lot the Balloon family went to extremes to get their fifteen minutes. What does it say about us that we gave it to them?

Pastor Glenn is exactly right! We’ve made these people celebrities. At first they had our pity, then they had our shame, and honestly now they’re back to having our pity again, just in a different sort of way.

We love our celebrities and wanna be celebrities, don’t we? It doesn’t matter if they’re pure, true, crooked, crazy, or deceiving. As long as they stir up some sort of emotion in us, we either love them or love to hate them.

A friend and I have started reading and discussing books. So far we have read A Mind for God by James Emery White and we are about to finish What’s So Great About Christianity? by Dinesh D’Souza.

The next book we are reading is The Shack by William P. Young. Our goal is to read the book and compare its ideas, thoughts, presentations, claims, etc to the truth of Scripture.

Have you read The Shack? What were your thoughts about it?