• Our top e-mail submission today regarded a series near and dear to Kevin’s heart, Degrassi Jr. High. On Friday the 24th, a Canadian teen talkshow called Jonovision had a cast reunion. An e-mail from Kevin was mentioned, where he told the cast to make more movies and that he’d love to see more of them. The Canoe website’s also got a small piece on the reunion. Check it out HERE.
• Previews magazine is advertising new new View Askew shirts: One is a new another Bluntman and Chronic shirt and the other is a black RST Video shirt. Both are 17.95. We assume the Stash will offer them soon.
• Interestingly enough…A very old piece…But the Random House dictionary has a daily feature where the explain the origin of a word: Wanna know where “Brodie” comes from?
• UK’s Popcorn website has posted a new interview with Kevin. It’s on multiple pages and full of photos, so we’re not going to attempt to rip a local copy for the site or anything. You can check it out at their site HERE though.
• Matt Damon‘s followup to Dogma, “The Talented Mr. Ripley”, is opening to some very good reviews as well as 5 Golden Globe Nominations. E! Online sat down to chat with Matty about things. Check it out HERE.
• Finally today, we’ve added a new poll, not really Askew related, but just something of personal interest. By the way, last week’s poll had by FAR the most OVERWHELMING results of any poll in this site’s history. An INCREDIBLE majority of you would rather see the Dogma DVD delayed a few months to give Kevin, Vincent, & Co. time to put together a jam-packed release, rather than a speedy April release that’s now planned. Are you listening, Columbia/Tristar?

• Hey all! Hope you got a lot of nice stuff for Xmas. You can definitely tell it’s winter here in Central PA. While we didn’t see any of the white stuff all weekend, it sure felt like it could start up any minute. Temps were FRIGID. Is it Spring yet???

So, here comes the REALLY fun week. Enjoy it, folks, cuz you’ll only see it once in your lifetime. Stores will be crazy with folks stockpiling water, canned goods, batteries, and the like, all preparing for the worst. It’s not every day that you see those first TWO digits of the calendar year changing. What a neat time to be alive. Just think, it’s only ever happened once before in recorded history. Wow. Anyway, hopefully you’ve all got some sort of plans for New Years Eve, whether it be slaving away at your jobs to monitor the Y2K changeover, out partying up a storm, sitting comfortably at home watching Dick Clark from your couch, or cowering in a corner with a loaded shotgun prepared to defend your life (though we’d advise against that last one). 5 days to go. It’s gonna be cool, but man, we’ll be happy when it’s finally over.

It’s nice to be back home at News Askew, though. As the Real World Seattle marathon plays on good ‘ol MTV (that big slap scene is coming up, the drama), it seems like a good time to get caught up on e-mail and site stuff. Not TOO much to report due to the news basically stopping over the holiday weekend. Dogma finally showed up in its first foreign market overseas in the UK today, and early reports are extremely positive. We’ve got some more press over at Dogma RC relating to this release (some Film Unlimited interviews, to be exact, courtesy of Simon). In addition to that, JUST a few more newsbites as we coast back into another work week (yep, we’re each back at work, until the 31st). Rock and roll: