His work on “SNL” was also noticed by cult-film director Kevin Smith, who cast him for an unusual role in his upcoming release, “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.” “That was fun. We just finished shooting that three weeks ago,” Morgan said. “I play a drug dealer that’s in a [labor] union. It’s really funny.”

“Salon’s about-average review of the apparently-fascinating new book about Tim McVeigh, American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & The Oklahoma City Bombing,” siva writes, “contains one particularly jaw-dropping passage, wherein McVeigh justifies the “collateral damage” of the bombing by comparison to the technicians and functionaries of the Empire killed by Luke Skywalker when he blew up the Death Star. An astonishing mix of megalomania, childhood fantasy, and Joseph Campbell-ian aspirations. Or Maybe he just saw Clerks?”

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From the latter link, a college essay on Kevin Smith: “When the characters in Smith’s films are not discussing sex they are likely discussing pop culture, specifically Star Wars movies and comic books. They talk not just about liking a movie or that comic book, but the sociopolitical implications of pop culture that are rarely examined. Randal and Dante spend an entire scene discussing the ramifications of Luke’s destruction of the second Death Star in Return of the Jedi. Since it was still under construction at the time of its explosion, it was likely still being built, and since the Empire simply did not have the manpower to complete a job of such magnitude alone, there must have been independent contractors working on the Death Star. Randal feels these contractors were innocents unfairly caught up in someone else’s politics.”