• Regular visitors to Auctions Askew have probably already seen these items, but here’s the latest Auctions Askew stuff that YOU can own — We’re a few days late on this, so bidding is well underway. If you’re interested, get over there NOW!They’ve got rare signed posters as well as some other small memorabilia this week. There’s still time to get your bid in. Good luck to ya.

There’s also an ex-Auctions Askew item up for sale at eBay right now — It’s a damn cool one too, we might add. We can’t verify the autheticity, but the guy who’s selling it seems sincere enough for sure. Anyway, it’s the “Alyssa Jones” banner from the comic-con at the end of Chasing Amy. The bidding on that one’s starting at just $25.00, someone’s gonna get a DEAL! Check that out as well.

• We’re happy to report that Kevin took some time before starting “Jersey Girl” to head into Atlanta, Georgia this past Sunday to record a brand new episode of Roadside Attractions for “The Tonight Show”. No word yet on an airdate, but they usually turn these things around rather quickly. Heck, maybe Kevin can sit down with Jay after the clip and chat about “Jersey Girl”! We’ll keep ya posted.

• JoBlo.com’s Dreamcatcher San Diego Con coverage is apparently also stacked with View Askew references.

• A company called RCV is releasing some rather barren View Askew DVDs in Europe — Jay & Bob and Chasing Amy have some basic features as this site indicates. Time to track down those region-free DVD players and nab yourself some Region 1 discs, folks!
• Check the last panel of this new webtoon, “Drawing The Line” for a classic Clerks reference. We hear there’s more on the way.
• Speaking of cartoons, apparently there’s some View Askew fans at the U.S. Air Force Academy. This little toon appeared in “E-Dodo”, their net-based underground newspaper. Guess the jokes are a little inside, though.

• Thanks again to all who took a shot at the big prize for being hit number 10 million. Our winner Seth is from Virginia, and will be awarded a FEATURED walk-on role in Kevin’s upcoming “Jersey Girl”. Nicely done, Seth. He’s been a longtime fan (since Clerks) and is geniunely excited about the prize. We hope to have more contests like this in the future, so keep coming back, and thanks again for making 10 million possible.

• Something Awful yet again had a View Askew-related parody on their site recently — This time, Mooby shows up in a rather funny mock CD-cover.
• A fansite for comedy group “The State” (who had a hilarious show on MTV quite a few years back) conducted a survey about the show’s fans, and in the “Favorite movies” portion, all movies from the Askewniverse were ranked (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma are all in the top 10).
• We hear that you can pre-order that Spider-Man boxed set (with the Kevin/Stan Lee DVD inside) for as low as $39.98 at places like Walmart.com, etc.
• If you’re following the Daredevil-related news, Joblo ran an excellent piece on the panel in San Diego recently, that’s even got a couple View Askew references in it:

You can also find a window static of the new DareDevil movie logo up for sale at Ebay. Buy at your own risk, as always, we just mention ’em as we see ’em.

• Speaking of ebay, wow — If you’ve got some CRAZY deep pockets, you might want to put a bid in on the ORIGINAL cover artwork for Spidey/Black Cat #1. It’s already over $2,000 and still not even reached its reserve price. Could make a fantastic collector’s item for someone out there though. Check it out!

• Here’s a scan from Request magazine (not the best quality we’re afraid) on Jason Lee’s upcoming flick, “A Guy Thing”. Click it for the larger version.

• And finally today, here’s a well-drawn piece of Clerks: The Cartoon/Star Wars fan art. Catch ya next time!

10,000,000.

• First off, thanks to ALL of you for making this most incredible milestone possible. In just over 5 years (we started this site back in May of 1997), News Askew has now celebrated over 10 million visits. That’s quite a number. We’ve been keeping close track of the count since day one, and we’re happy to say that it’s always been on the upswing for us, and, as always, YOU make this site possible. So we again must thank you all for your continued support, for spreading the word, and for being the best bunch of fans out there. We never dreamed we’d get this far.

As most of you know, we had a prize at stake for this milestone as well – A featured walk-on role in Kevin Smith’s upcoming “Jersey Girl”. We’re happy to report that we have a confirmed winner to the contest, by the name of Seth Bedwell. We’re waiting to confirm his acceptance of the prize, but if he takes it, the walk-on is his.

The counter did run up pretty fast at the end there, and it was rolled back for any massive cheating throughout the contest. At the end, however, the coutner just went up THAT fast due to the massive amount of folks attempting to hit the magic number.

But don’t fret — If you didn’t win, check the story just below this one for details on how you can still get your mug in the movie.

Again, thanks to ALL of you for playing, and thanks for making News Askew more popular than ever. We’re hoping to be here for many millions more, and hope you’ll stick around (even though the free prizes have gone away for a while). More news later!

• That’s right folks, it’s the time you’ve been waiting for!!! The extras casting call for Jersey Girl has arrived! And because you’re a loyal fan who reads this website, we want YOU to have a shot at seeing your mug in the flick. Here’s the full details on this exciting opportunity:

Get those letters in the mail NOW, folks — We wanna see a TON Of News Askew readers in “Jersey Girl”. We’ve done this a couple of times ourselves, and the experience is always a blast. Good luck to you all.

• We’re in the process of checking out the test pressing DVD of Vulgar — It’s got a nice chunk of 12 deleted scenes on here, and the best transfer of the film we’ve ever seen. One thing to beware — We do have the RATED version (the unrated should be arriving tomorrow) and this one does NOT have the commentary track available (likely because there’d be gaps where the cut stuff was). So, if for some silly reason you were gonna buy the RATED version of the disc, DON’T! You’ll miss out. “Judge Not” is in place, you’ll be happy to hear, and the Dogma doc never looked better. Get those preorders in for VULGAR now at the Stash, and watch for a full review right here very soon.

• This site features a new photo of Kevin visting the Banana Museum in Washington state. We assume this had to take place for one of his recent Roadside Attractions bits for Leno.
• An Australian release of Spiderman on DVD will also include a packaged version of Stan Lee’s Mutants, Monsters & Marvels (which Kev appears in throughout). It’s a 4-disc gift set, though, so be prepared to pay a hefty price!
• More Linda Fiorentino news, seems that she truly is a tough person to work with. We’d been reading that she opted out of Men In Black II, now Variety reports this news – They didn’t WANT her back!

• The debut feature from director Jeff Anderson, “Now You Know”, has been accepted to its first major film festival — The San Diego Int’l Film Festival (www.sdff.org) screened over 500 films and selected 24 features for the festival (and another 30 or so film shorts), and we’re happy to report that one of the selected was NYK. The majority of screenings will be held at the Pacific Gaslamp 15 Theater, in the heart of the Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego from September 18-22nd. NYK will screen on Friday the 20th of September at 8:00pm. Jeff Anderson will be there as well as several other cast members from the film. Celebrities, filmmakers and festival guests will be staying at the Westgate Hotel, but there are tons of reasonable hotels throughout that area.

The festival has an expected attendance of more than 15,000, so it should be quite an event. There will be several parties every night, and they’d love to see plenty of View Askew fans in attendance. Mark your calendars! We’ll have more info on this as the event gets closer.