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  • As promised, Kevin and Scott deliver SModcast #81 fresh to the net today, with the episode now available for your exclusive listening pleasure via Quick Stop Entertainment:

      SModcast 81: Satan’s Dookie. –

      In which our heroes throw their support behind the controversial PreCrime Bureau.

    The SMod is super-sized this week, too, running in at a hefty 1:11. Grab it, and enjoy some early week entertainment from Smith and Mosier.

  • “Clerks” shows up in Entertainment Weekly’s Popwatch Quote of the Day today:

      “All those innocent contractors brought in to do the job were killed — casualties of a war they had nothing to do with. All right, look: you’re a roofer, some juicy government contract comes your way. You got a wife and kids, the two-story in suburbia. This is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. Along come these left-wing militants that blast everything within a three-mile radius with their lasers. You didn’t ask for that. You have no personal politics. You’re just trying to scrape out a living.” — Randal (Jeff Anderson), on why the destruction of the second Death Star was unfair, in Clerks.

    Surf on over to watch the clip.

  • A game design contest at last week’s Game Developers Conference inspired one developer to consider using “Zack & Miri Make a Portal” as his entry. The idea didn’t pan out as licensing two different intellectual properties would have been too cost-prohibitive. Too bad – You know you’d have played.
  • Director David Wain has some nice things to say about “Zack And Miri Make a Porno” and Elizabeth Banks on his commentary track for the recently released “Role Models”:

      “It [Role Models] came out the same time as Zack and Miri Make a Porno, which is, to me, a wonderful lead performance from Elizabeth Banks and if you haven’t seen it, I would highly recommend it.”

    We’ve been fans of Wain’s work since way back in “The State” days, so very cool to hear that.

  • Pop Culture and movie fansite “Bag of Mad Bastads” catches up with the Bluray release of “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” and scores the flick a solid BUY IT rating.