• Does Amazon.Com know something that we don’t, or are they just guessing? They’ve now got Chasing Amy listed for a June 13th DVD street date, for a MSRP of 39.99, and they’re offering a 33% discount ($29.99 their price). Sounds too soon for us, so we don’t hold much faith in the date. Just wanted to let you know, though.

• Faber and Faber, the UK publishers of the Clerks and Chasing Amy joint screenplays, have just released the “Clerks” screenplay on its own. Nothing new, in fact, the dedication at the front is the short “For Joey..” for some reason. We hear it’s a very nice little book for £5 quid. You can get it for £4 at amazon.co.uk.
• Wow, we’re starting to feel like the ONLY ones who haven’t seen Lee in the Cameron Crowe flick! Two more reviews appear over at AICN today, but these look to contain some major spoilers for the film, so be careful!

• The Independent Spirit Awards aired on IFC and Bravo yesterday. Unfortunately Dogma, which was up for Best Original Screenplay, was edged out by “Election”. Election is a well-written flick, but we can’t help but think Dogma’s writing was quite better. But then again, we may be biased. Still, damn shame. Election also took the awards for best picture and director, so there were obviously some huge fans of the flick amongst the voters. That sort of explains why Dogma lost the screenplay nod.

Jason Lee was on hand to present the “Blair Witch Project” with the award for best movie under $500,000. Also, in a montage of movies honored in the awards, they showed the “Salsa Shark” clip of Clerks. That’s about all that happened Askew-related at this year’s show.

While we’re on the topic, in case ya didn’t see it, IFC does have an interview with Kevin online HERE.

• Hey folks…We’ve got a couple tidbits for ya today, but again nothing major. Things have been quite slow in the realm of Askew as they’re likely trying to figure out what to do with the Clerks Cartoon as well as getting things lined up for the next flick. We expect some major news in the next couple of weeks, perhaps Kevin will even leak some stuff out at one of his upcoming public appearances, so if ya attend, be sure and ask him! If you see a skipped day here and there around the site, it’s not because we’re not around, we just tend to take days off when there’s nothing to talk about. Plus it allows us time to catch up on some other stuff we’ve got to work on.

Anyway, here’s today’s update. Enjoy the Oscars tonight, where we expect “American Beauty” to do a much-deserved sweep among a lot of the major categories. There really are some good flicks in the running this year, and some wonderful nominees, though we can wish that Dogma was at least in the running for screenplay. Oh well, can’t win ‘em all.

Be sure to vote in the new poll topic this week, as well, which we’ve finally changed. Let’s rock: