• Well folks, with just 19 short days ’til Christmas, we’ve done it again with another can’t miss deal from your friends at View Askew and
  Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash – The $5 Jay! Yes indeedy, that’s FIVE STINKIN’ BUCKS for an honest-to-goodness SIGNED Jay inaction figure, direct shipped
  from us. As with the $5 Bob’s, which sold like hotcakes, these WILL NOT LAST LONG. So buy yourself one, buy a few for friends, and get these things
  while you can. Mewes only signed until his hand got tired, and we honestly can’t tell you if that meant 10, 100, or more! Order your signed Jay inaction
  figures for just FIVE DOLLARS now!

• We’ve got some interesting tidbits for ya from Kevin today, so let’s let them roll on without any delay:

• On attending cons this year: “I’ll be going to all the Cons this year, starting with WonderCon, followed by WizardCon Los Angeles, WizardCon Philly, San
  Diego ComiCon, and WizardCon Chicago.” (Editor’s note: This also makes us wonder/hope that the Kevin Smith exclusive figures will also roll out along
  with these cons in ‘05!)
• On Stash West: “Granted, the West Coast Stash is easier to get good guests at, because it’s located in L.A. – where most of the good
  guests are (word has it Quentin was in the other night, and you can be damn skippy I’m gonna hit him up for an in-store the day his mega edition of “Kill
  Bill” Vols. I and II come out), but the East Coast Stash’s got Walt, man. As a regular fixture. Plus, in visiting the East Coast Stash, you can also visit
  actual locations from the flicks. Out here? Not so much.” (Editor’s note: TARANTINO!?!?! Just tell us when to reserve the plane tickets. We’re there.)
• On Stash Comics Mail Order: “It’s coming, actually – as part of this weird, cool promotion that folks here will dig.” (You can also check out a list of
  what Kevin’s been reading HERE along with a nifty new avatar which obviously comes
  from the Degrassi shoot).
• On ticket scalpers for his Toronto gig: “I heard someone bought a ticket for three hundred bucks.”
• On the possibility of a Jersey Girl script book: “Doubtful. Maybe it’ll be published with another screenplay in the future – like the “Clerks/Chasing Amy” screenplay.”
• And finally on future Vulgarthons and screenings in LA: “We were trying to hold a Vulgarthon out here, but none of the theaters in Westwood were helpful.
  The NuArt couldn’t help us out either. So we’re still looking. Other than that, I can’t think of any screenings/Q&A’s coming up in the L.A. area in the near future. ”

There ya have it folks. As always, check in at View Askew’s WWWBoard frequently, as you never know when someone famous might stop by. And all of us
“common folk” that post there are a good lot, too.

• We’ve added some captions to the previous story featuring photos from the Lee signing at the Stash last week. So, feel free to surf
  on back (or scroll down, depending on your current browsing day) to check that out.
• The Carolina Film and Video Festival has confirmed View Askew auteur Vincent Pereira as a judge for 2005. Vincent will probably also give
  a lecture/seminar on filmmaking during one day of the festival, though that has yet to be determined.

The CFVF is the oldest continually running film festival in North or South Carolina. It is an annual production of the film school at the University of
North Carolina-Greensboro. 2005 marks the festival’s 27th anniversary. The festival dates are February 23-26, 2005.

Entries are currently being accepted in a variety of genres. Please see carolinafilmandvideofestival.org for more information on the festival,
including application materials and ticket information. There are thousands of dollars worth of cash prizes for winning films/scripts. Go to
Greensboro and check out some great independent films, or better yet — enter a film of your own for a chance to have it judged by Vincent himself.

• We’ve got a scan of Jason Lee’s Stuff article that we mentioned last week for you now. The article
  covers his skating background.

• Lee is also listed in the new issue of People Magazine (Dec. 13th). He is included in a top ten list of odd celebrity children’s names
  and managed to come in at number two with his son, Pilot Inspektor. The scan of all 10 is right here for ya.
• In case you’re not watching one of the best new shows of the year, “Lost”, perhaps this is more incentive – View Askew fave (and occasional
  cameo-er) Paul Dini is on board writing episodes and backstories for some of the characters. Last week’s episode was a real rush — If you’re not tuning
  in, we suggest you start. Wednesdays on ABC (soon to be followed by the equally awesome Alias!).
• George Carlin will be doing stand up at the Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas on January 15th. Tickets are on sale now.

• And finally today: The new issue of Entertainment Weekly has a small article on how the movie version of the “Da Vinci Code” will be appealing to Catholic
  organizations (like the Opus Dei) in an attempt to not piss them off. The article starts “It’s one thing to arouse the ire of Christian groups with indie
  films like ‘Dogma’ or ‘Priest.'” At the end, EW gets a quote from out old friend, the Catholic League’s Willam Donahue where he says “Why not have a
  disclaimer at the beginning of the movie that this based on a novel [and] does not purport to be fact?” Then he would “have zero problem.”

Wow – Who knew that that was all they had to do with Dogma to stop the protests – Say it’s fiction? Huh. See ya next time…