• Here ya go, folks! With much thanks to Will for his encoding expertise, we’re proud to present last night’s edition of Roadside Attractions with Kevin Smith from The Tonight Show! In this first edition, Kevin visits some famous sites in the New York area. He also does a brief walk out appearance with Jay Leno himself to introduce and wrap up the short. Pick your flavor below, keep in mind the 128k versions are of course better quality but will take a bit longer to download:

We’ll keep you posted on when the next edition will air. From the sound of things, it won’t be long, as Leno usually likes to air his new feature segments fairly close to one another.

• Magazines like Video Business and Billboard are running a nice pullout ad for Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back’s video release, complete with a JSBSB Door Hanger (like those “do not disturb” things they have at hotels). Kevin as Silent Bob on one side with a SSSSHHHHH! and Jay on the other with his fist Empire logo thing going. They’re pretty cool, and apparently will be distributed en masse across college campuses nationwide very soon. Look for them. Given the fact they’re being marketed towards colleges, though, it’s a shame they didn’t put some funnier dialogue on them, making Jay’s the loud side and Bob’s the quiet side. Still, a cool item to look for. Screener copies and posters for the film are now hitting video stores as well, so everything is on the track for both the VHS and DVD release on February 26, 2002. We’re still looking for a preview copy of the DVD to review for the website, so if anyone out there in the biz can provide one, please let us know!

• Again, we normally don’t run ebay auctions unless there’s some cool rare items there, and these are two you might want to check out – Some rare Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back UK promotional posters. Check each of them out HERE and HERE.
• This site features an article on Ben Affleck as being a great choice for Daredevil. The author has posted pictures of Ben in various action poses along side of Daredevil, showing the similarities.
• Here’s an update from Diamond Previews on the Mallrats DVD release in the UK:

• Sadly, or maybe this is an honor, the Clerks cartoon has now made the “Museum of E-Failure”, a collection of snapshots of websites that aren’t updated or for no-longer existing shows, products, etc. Check that out HERE.
• Howard Kaylan of classic group “The Turtles” plugs all five of Kevin’s films in the latest edition of Eddie’s Media Corner (#10) on the official Turtles website. There’s also a mention in the previous edition (#9), where he says “Smith is a genius, and I do believe that if I could ever just sit down for an hour or two with Jay and Silent Bob, we could solve all the problems of the universe.”
• And finally today, the film “Wild Bill and Gore Strike Back” featuring our ex-pres and vice pres, appearing the theMadblast website, features some Jay & Bob references after the first minute or so. You’ll need Flash installed to check it out. Catch ya later…