• Here it is, in all its glory! Plenty of mirror sites so things are working nice and fast. Click any of the stills above to watch the full trailer!

Some great gags here, but the beauty is that the way it’s cut together, none of the gags are ruined for you, and there’s NO plot giveaways here, either. Truly an excellent trailer, and one you can watch safely without ruining anything about this excellent flick. Get watching!

New ONLINE-ONLY “CLERKS II” TRAILER Debuts Tonight!

• It’s a big night, folks — Kevin has revealed that he will debut his internet-only trailer for Clerks II online, TONIGHT! Get ready to share your opinions and see some fun, uncut clips from the new film. This trailer represents the way that Kevin would like to sell the film to the fans — It’s going to be more “inside” than the more mass-audience friendly piece which is tied up with Scary Movie 4 later this month. Once it’s available tonight, expect some massive slowdowns on the servers for a while here (happens every time), but please check here, View Askew, and the official Clerks 2 site for mirrors. Also, if anyone grabs a copy and wants to help out with hosting it up as well, let us know and we’ll post your mirror link here as well (should take the strain off our servers for a while and let more folks see it).

Get ready, folks — More finished footage from Clerks II is mere hours away from gracing your desktop! See ya back here real soon!

“Wall-Rats”

• Ah, the joy of being a background extra. We’re no strangers to the task, lucky enough to have walk-by scenes in both Dogma and Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. So, in this latest edition of “Train Wreck”, you’ll meet two NEW background extras, who got camera time just for showing up and lurking around the Mooby’s set! Dang! That coulda been US walking by those doors outside! Watch it all go down with QuickTime video or your Ipod at the official Clerks 2 website.

• A must-see stop for any fan making the trip to California has to be the amazing Westwood Stash. One of the coolest comic book stores in the world in both style and substance, the store features one of the largest collections of authetic View Askew props anywhere. You can pick up all your favorite books, and, of course, all of the cool swag that’s sold at the online store. Televsion program “Attack of the Show” on the G4 network ran an excellent piece on the store, featuring glimpses at the famous folks that often appear there, as well as some of the cool stuff that you can see there. We’ve got a copy of the segment for your viewing pleasure! Check it out. But trust us — Video doesn’t do the store justice. Make sure to visit the stores in person when you’re in town!

• Some good quotes from Jason Lee is this new article from the New Zealand Herald:

…Enjoying the security that comes with a weekly TV show, he says, “Sometimes it’s a 14-hour day, and that can be hard because I’m in almost every scene.

“But this is the first time I’ve had steady work and a steady income. I’m very comfortable.”

Lee hasn’t let success change his life. “I’m not the next ‘It guy’. I certainly don’t have women throwing themselves at me.

“I’m not your typical Hollywood actor who is very aware of what you can get being semi-well-known,” he says.

“Even if I were single, I wouldn’t be hanging out in the VIP lounge at the Viper Room dating various random models every week. That’s just not my style.”

The former professional skateboarder lives in Los Angeles and divorced actress Carmen Llewellyn Lee after six years of marriage.

He is now engaged to artist/photographer Beth Riesgraf and they have a 2-year-old son.

In spite of Lee’s down-to-earth manner, he has topped the list of celebrities who give their offspring the kind of special names sure to cement their childhood in ridicule and undoubted resentment towards their parents.

Forget Apple, Tallulah Belle, or Kyd. Lee’s son is infamous for having the most unusual name in Hollywood: Pilot Inspektor Riesgraf-Lee.

“His mom came up with the name, Pilot. She just came up with it one day and I said, ‘I love it. Yeah!’ ” As for Inspektor, he says, “A friend of ours suggested it. I said, ‘God, I love that name! If my name were Inspektor as a kid, I would have been the coolest kid at school.’ So, we made that his middle name.”

Good intentions aside, perhaps Lee will one day add that to his list of things to rectify.

Lee subscribes to that particularly Hollywood religion of Scientology. “I know that Scientology gets a bad rap, but it has got me through some rough times with friends, family and even my ex-wife.

“Carmen used to be a pretty heavy druggie and Scientology worked wonders for her.”

How does Lee feel about karma?

“For me, it’s probably more the idea of if I keep kicking a telephone pole, eventually my foot is going to start hurting.

“If I do enough of something there’s going to be an inevitable reaction to it.”

He smiles. “I don’t know if that’s karma, but that’s life.”

And what might be on his own karmic list?

“In my own life, If I had a list, I would add things like when I was a teenager I let my friend drink and drive.

“He got pulled over and was taken to jail. Those kinds of things you do in life that you look back on when you are older and ask yourself, ‘What the hell was I thinking?’ ”

• Kevin is thanked in the end credits of a new independent film titled “For Catherine”.
• An show titled “What Hollywood Taught us about Sex” is airing on the E! network, and it features a segment on lesbianism and “Chasing Amy”. Kevin appears in a short blurb as well, in a clip that looks to be from around the time of Amy’s release.