9:10 WPYX, Albany
9:20 WRMFWest Palm
9:30 WDCG, Raleigh
9:40 KTBZ, Houston
9:50, KKRW, Houston
10:00 WSTR, Atlanta, GA
10:10 KLZR, Kansas City
10:30 WXLP, Quad Cities, IA
10:40 KDKB, Phoenix
10:50WFNX, Boston
11:00 WRTT, Birmingham
11:10 KRZR, Fresno
11:20 KKLS, Sioux Falls
11:30 CIJK, Halifax, NS
11:40 KUFO, Portland
11:50 ALICE, San Francisco
12:00 KFAT, Anchorage

All times are EST. If we catch wind of these appearances appearing online, we’ll let you know — If any of the tech-savvy capture an MP3, let us know and we’ll throw it up here for the archives.

Signing starts at 7:00 PM officially. We suggest lining up early — This is a very accessible place in a huge city, so showing up even at the crack of dawn when the store opens isn’t a bad idea if you want to be among the first in line. Otherwise, take your chances with what’s likely to be a very long line, though a fun one — Camping out with Kevin Smith fans for the day is always a blast.

Now, from the sound of this writing, you MIGHT be able to bring a book that you bought elsewhere, but we can’t be sure. Most of the time, when a bookstore hosts a signing, it’s with the idea you’ll buy a copy from them. Since they’re allowing either of the recent books to be signed, if you’ve got one, but not the other, we figure bringing one, and buying the other is a good idea as well. Heck, you gotta have both anyway — Why not get BOTH signed in person by Kevin Smith himself? Watch the official View Askew site page for this event as we figure if any changes happen, they’ll show there as well.

Thanks to scooper Robb for the photos above — Click to expand, and enjoy. Right now, Kevin’s upcoming gigs are all back to the traditional Q&A format, though we’ll of course let you know when your next chance to catch Scott and Kev live on a stage might be.

• Crave Online gives the book a glowing review. Here’s a snippet:

  “…Unabashedly raw and completely unapologetic, Kevin Smith pushes the low-brow humor to an all-time high with his Mosier chats.

  A few random Smodquotes:

  – “I’m the kind of guy you want to cut open like a f*****g Tauntaun and sleep inside of!”

  – “If you’re too old to believe in Santa, you can’t believe in magic…. or Jesus.”

  – ” I could eat that. It tastes like pee, but I’ll eat it…”

  – “Better a gay Batman than no Batman at all.”

  If you don’t laugh out loud while reading this book, you’re either illiterate or Kathie Lee Gifford is your brand of humor. The easily-offended certainly need not apply. If you’ve seen Smith’s films, you should know precisely what to expect from a man who’s already sold millions of copies of a book where he recounts his morning bowel movements in excruciating detail.”

• GeeksOfDoom.com runs their own exclusive excerpt from the book, and offers up 3 chances to win your own copy. Their bits come from SModcast #54: “SModder’s Day”.
• Finally, MTV News refers to the man as “Funny, Rauchy and Cool” during a recent 60 minute interview they conducted.

More SModcast press as it comes in — This has all been fantastic exposure for Kevin’s work, appearances, the book, and of course, the SModcast show itself. As they march towards historic episode #100, we can’t help but guess of what might be planned. With Kevin touring the nation, it might even just be another standard episode, and you know what – that’s just fine with us. Thanks for the continued free entertainment, guys — And congrats on the book.

• Via @PHazy87 “how is editing of the new flick going?” We’re down to 1:44. I’ll show the studio near end of October, then start testing it.
• Dear @jimmyfallon, Thanks 4 putting me on TV last night. But fair’s fair: next time, I wear the blindfold and YOU shove balls into MY mouth.
• Via @hudo59 “any plans to come to australia for a evening with? big following down here” Waiting for opening at Sydney Opera House. Serious.
• Granted, I worship at the Varadi St. Temple, but this is the best piece I’ve read about Gretzky’s stepping down: http://bit.ly/10mX2c

Read it all, including a 6-tweet congratulatory message to Alyssa Milano, more appearance details, and the aftermath of Kevin’s stint in goal today, here at News Askew and of course, instantaneously via the magic of Twitter.

“(SModcast) is my favorite thing in the world right now,” Smith said. “If that’s taken away by virtue of the fact that … money gets involved, I mean we’ve got enough money from our other jobs, we don’t need money for SModcast. Let’s keep that pure and simple and fun. And you know, I don’t know, there’s something kind of neat about it.”

When he’s not catching up with Mosier, Smith also uses SModcast to showcase other friends and collaborators, such as artist (and manager of Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash in Red Bank) Walt Flanagan and writer-director Bryan Johnson, as well as Smith’s wife, actress Jennifer Schwalbach, and their daughter, Harley Smith.

“People, for the last two years we’ve been doing it, have been like, ‘Hey, bring in Ben Affleck and bring in Alan Rickman (who both co-starred in Smith’s 1999 film ‘Dogma’),'” Smith said. “On the last movie (the upcoming ‘A Couple of Dicks’) we were shooting with Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan and they’re like, ‘Well do a SModcast with them,’ but that’s not the point. It’s not like a fucking late night show, … it’s just two people sitting around talking, and it’s nothing new, it’s not reinventing the wheel, but we just don’t feel the need to bell and whistle it up, because we feel like, and based on all the reaction from the people who listened and wrote in comments over the last two years, we feel like the special effect or the magic is the content of what’s being talked about.”

Speaking with Smith, it becomes clear that he’d gladly give up his day job for a life of SModcast.

“It’s definitely the purest thing I’m involved in. … It’s beautiful, it’s my favorite thing I do right now, way more so than the films. If I could get away with just doing SModcast for a living, I totally would. Unfortunately, like the (‘An Evening with Kevin Smith’) Q & As, the filmmaking side of what I do for a living fuels it.

“Like, without that filmmaking gig I don’t know if I have anything, really, to talk about. That’s not true, I know I have tons to talk about, I just don’t know if anybody gives a shit at that point. So I stay involved in the film thing, you know, because A: it’s my passion (and) B: it’s what I do, it’s my vocation, but for me the best thing we do right now is SModcast, it just kills me, it’s phenomenal. And it all started just because I wanted to hang out with Mosier a little more.”

Kevin Smith is getting so good at his public speaking ventures, it’s become a second career for him at this point. Hell, he could retire as a director and just tour around the country with his modified stand-up act, entertaining people across the country. You should know that Smith is a talented writer so he’s combined that skill with his gift of gab for the book “Shootin’ the Shit With Kevin Smith” which is out in stores as we speak.

In freewheeling conversations with his friend and producer Scott Mosier (as heard on their top-rated podcast, known as SModcast), we discover — to pick just four random examples of the riches therein — the genesis of Stalin’s Monkey Soldier army, the horrifying tale of Kevin vs. Steak Tartare, how to make bukkake eggs, and how Kevin was once willing to let Alanis Morissette get mugged…

We’ve got an exclusive excerpt from the book below, a conversation titled “Little Outhouse on the Prairie.” I’d like to think we’ve covered a wide range of topics here on JoBlo.com in the 11-something years since we’ve been up-and-running, but I think this is the first time we’ve had a discussion on using a corn cob to wipe your ass on the site.

You can read said passage at JoBlo, or in your very own copy of “Shootin’ The Sh*t with Kevin Smith”, which should be on your nightstand or bookshelf right now, dang it. Get yourself
a signed copy from the Stash.

Fallon’s official site lists Kev as well, so we’re pretty sure this is gospel. Get the popcorn ready and set up those Tivos! Kevin on LATE night where the harbor is a little less safe as far as what’s allowed to be said on TV should be a blast. If you record it, don’t forget this is TECHNICALLY Saturday that Kev will be on, as the time will be 12:35 AM EST/PST.

“Toronto Uh-Oh: it sucks, but I have to cancel and re-schedule Thursday’s T-Dot press and Indigo signing. DICKS is close to the point when I can turn it over to other for temp mix and prep for test in Nov while I go on tour. Edit needs 24 hours of undivided attention.”

Kevin currently predicts he’ll return in late October or early November to sign your books, and hopes to ALSO bring a Q&A into the mix as an added bonus for your patience. We’ll keep ya posted of course.