• Kevin has made a few announcements regarding plans for Stash Bash 2. Keep in mind all of this stuff is likely to happen but isn’t exactly set in stone yet. First off, the event will be pushed back ONE WEEK to Octber 5, 2003. No additional entries are being accepted due to the date change, though. Hopefully those that are chosen can still make it on that date.
  Approximately 10,000 essays were received, and of those, around 300 will be chosen. These 300 will NOT be permitted to bring a guest. So, it’ll be you and you alone. The plan is to allow just 30 people into the store per hour, to keep it as a small, intimate affair, and ensure plenty of space and time to chat with all the guests in attendance. A 10-hour day is planned, and we imagine those that are chosen will be informed of their chosen “hour”. Sounds like a great way to run things, similar to the group system used for the first Stash Bash, however on a much smaller, more conversation-friendly scale.
  We expect all of this stuff will be made “official” soon enough, until then, we wanted to give you the heads-up. Once folks start to get their invitations, we’ll start talking more seriously about gatherings the evening before the event and during the day. Naturally, with a Sunday event, we assume a lot of folks might be looking for a place to party and crash on Saturday night. Stay tuned.

• Ya gotta love it when Kevin hits the boards to answer questions, especially when said questions actually manage to get some new information out of the guy. He was in a particularly informative mood today, with some hints of many things to come. Here’s a summary:

• All the features from the original Clerks DVD will hopefully be included on the 10th anniversary Clerks DVD. The set will street in October/November 2004.
• Kevin on another yet unnamed project: “A pretty fun/silly one that oughta make a lot of folks happy – most of all me.”
• The only View Askew production yet to see a DVD release, “Big Helium Dog”, apparently has something happening with it.
• Kevin hopes to visit the UK for a live Q&A session in the next two months.
• The official Jersey Girl theatrical poster will be out “hopefully by Christmas”.
• Phil Benson and Laura Greenlee, who Kevin has worked with on past films, will work with Kevin on Fletch Won. A producer to fill the shoes of the vacationing Scott Mosier has yet to be announced.
• IF Kevin and View Askew attend the Wizardworld Dallas Comicon, there’s apparently an exlcusive inaction figure that will be available that we “wouldn’t believe”…

We’ll keep you posted as we fill in more of the blanks. Until then, there’s some stuff to think about.

• Chris Bailey (of “Clerks: The Cartoon” fame) is scheduled to appear at California State University at Northridge (CSUN), ADC 300, Purple Crit Room, on September 16th @ 3:00pm. The event is being sponsored by the CSUN art dept, and the flyer highlights the fact that Chris is currently directing the computer animation for the “Garfield” film.
  There was no mention of tickets or this being a student-only affair, so we’re sure Chris would love to see some Clerks fans in attendance. No info at their site yet, but the info comes to us from a student who promises to feed us more info as he learns more. Here’s a map of the campus in case you need to find your way around. Enjoy. And tell Chris you love his nifty News Askew logo that you see at the top of this ‘ol page.
• Today’s Film Threat quote comes from Chasing Amy: “That chick could be a bigger disease carrier than the monkey in Outbreak.”
• Clerks will be up on the big screen as a midnight movie at Ohio University’s Athena on October 3rd and 4th.