• Kevin’s on a Top 10 List of great things to come from Jersey in the August issue of Blender magazine. Page 168. If someone’s got a scan,
  we’ll run them all for ya.
• Another wonderful reason to hit the San Diego con: Film Threat’s first feature comedy, “My Big Fat Independent Movie”, contains spoofs of indie films like Memento,
  Swingers, Pulp Fiction, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Amelie, Run Lola Run, Pi, and features Paget Brewster, Clint Howard, JASON MEWES, Bob Odenkirk, Julie
  Strain, and more. Sounds like a fun
  one!
• Will Smith’s Jersey Girl cameo comes up in this piece
  that ran in the Orlando Sentinel this weekend. Here’s the snippet:

• Jay & Bob get a quick name drop in this article on online comic creator
  Justin Peterson.

• You want new swag? Do ya? Well, we gots it for ya right here. How about 3 brand new View Askew posters to covers those ugly walls of
  yours? These appear in the latest Diamond Previews, and thus aren’t ready for
  order from us yet, but coming VERY SOON:

Dress-up those drab walls of your parent’s post-modern decorated living room with your choice of three new colorful poster selections.

* Clerks French Poster measures 24” x 36” and provides a new level of culture to your walls. Dialogue from the movie Clerks never looked so important.

* Mallrats: Soar Poster measures 30” x 24” and provides some much need focus and inspiration. Set your sights high… the worse you can do is crash and burn!

* Nails Promotional Poster measures 24” x34” and drives home an important point. The Nails Cigarette campaign will soon be going nationwide with it’s unique “Truth in advertising” rarely seen displayed by a tobacco company.

CLERKS FRENCH-Poster 24×36……….$6.95

MALLRATS: SOAR-Poster 30×24……….$6.95

NAILS PROMO-Poster 24×34……….$6.95

We’ll let ya know when you can get your paws on ‘em.

• “I Love The 90’s” continues to air on VH-1 all this week and weekend, featuring Jay & Silent Bob prominently through each episdoe. Kevin
  made his first appearance as himself in the 1993 episode, talking about the X-Files.
• PROJECT GREENLIGHT was nominated for an Outstanding Reality Program Emmy this morning. We hope they win. Congrats to all involved!
• Affleck has exited from “Glory Road”, the project that
  was to star him as a college basketball coach.
• Damon talks Kevin in an interview found at Dark Horizons today. There’s also a reference to
  his and Ben’s next, possible, project…with Ben directing? That could be interesting:

• Scott Kramer’s tribute to Clerks and Kevin Smith, “CHASING KEVIN”, will be playing at the Comic Con International Independent Film Festival on Saturday,
  July 24. More info can be found HERE. Scott will be at the screening for a little Q&A following it. Be
  there!
• Seems that the September 7th DVD release date appears to be getting even more crowded. Save your pennies now! The long-awaited Rounders
  Special Edition DVD, featuring View Askew alum Matt Damon is slated for release on the same day as the Clerks X & Jersey Girl DVDs. Sounds like they have
  some cool stuff on there, too.
• Here’s the August updates as of 7/14/2004 for August viewdates of the heinously-cut Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back on Comedy Central:

• Hey Kansas! We’ve got another chance for you to see Jersey Girl on the big screen. The summer movie series at the restored art deco theatre in
  Hutchinson will be showing the film in August. Tickets are 5 bucks.

• It’s the Battle of the Shanne(o)ns! On July 19th, Mallrats alum Shannen Doherty and J&SBSB alum Shannon Elizabeth will be on Game Show Network’s “Celebrity Blackjack”. It airs at 10 PM. Check their website for more info. That Shannon Hamilton guy is too busy winning other tournys to play in this one, we gather.
• If you’re interested in the latest going on with the seemingly unfilmable Superman project, E! Online has the latest. We STILL wish they’d take another look at Kev’s script.
• Check out a new Matt Damon interview in audio format here with a few View Askew references (as well as a Dogma link in the related articles section). NPR’s got it!
• Is Kevin’s popular female fashion accessory choice influencing girls across the nation? It did for this one, apparently.
• And finally today: In Entertainment Weekly, Frankie Muniz answer this question:

We’d just like to mention this for the record: We believe that the first disc to do this was MALLRATS: SE, many years ago. Just cuz we like knowing we’re on the cutting edge with DVDs. Right? See ya next time…

• Kevin was kind enough to drop us some images of what the currently closed, but coming soon, West Coast Stash will look like. Yep, it’s
  official, the building’s bought and now some familiar faces are lining the windows, enticing you with what’s to come and staking claim on the Los Angeles
  comic book industry. This will be THE place to get your books in the L.A. area, and of course, ALL of your favorite View Askew swag. Anyone lucky enough
  to have attended our stash here on the east coast can attest to the fact that a visit to the store is like a View Askew museum, full of amazing props and
  one-of-a-kind relics from the films you just can’t see anywhere else. Stash West has tons of that coolness in store for you. The new shop is located IN
  Westwood, ON Westwood, across from Chilis. No firm set opening date has yet been established, but you can bet we’ll let you know when that is, and we
  expect a BIIIG party’s gonna be held to celebrate it, too. We’ll keep ya posted, of course.

• View Askew’s popping up in news all over the country this week, with Jersey Girl still making the news, Liv with child, J-Lo hitched, and of course, the
  return of Jay & Bob in “I Love The 90’s. Let’s run down the mentions for ya:

• “I Love The 90’s” premieres on VH-1 tomorrow, and we promise, you’re gonna love this. VH-1’s series is full of fun and features Kevin and
  Jay throughout, and of course, the return of Jay & Silent Bob! These are NOT to be missed. You can read all about the show
  HERE. In the alphabetical rundown of reasons to watch, Kevin takes the
  “K” category:

  “K: Filmmaker Kevin Smith couldn’t have envisioned the mini-franchise he was about to create when he filmed 1994’s ultra low-budget, black-and-white
  slacker comedy “Clerks.” The film — which features language so profane it initially earned an NC-17 rating — featured bit characters Jay and Silent Bob
  (the latter played by Smith himself), which would be featured in all of the director’s ’90s work (”Mallrats,” “Chasing Amy” and “Dogma”) before finally
  receiving their own starring vehicle: 2001’s “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.”

• Affleck had a few kind words to say about Jen’s recent nuptuals.
• “Jersey Girl” gets a very brief mention in this Star-Ledger article
  on Jersey movies.

• Jay Mewes made his debut on IFC’s new “Ultimate Film Fanatic” show this weekend. It’s reairing throughout this week, so check your local
  listings (a couple are coming up tomorrow night). Of course, Mewes provided the best moments:

The wackiness continues all summer long on IFC!

• Mallrats is mentioned in Wizard Magazine during an article about “Comics’ Greatest Love Triangles.” Click the scan for a look. Kevin is also being
  promoted for next month’s Wizard X. He will be answering the fan letters for that issue. Should be fun! We’ll have it for ya.
• An interesting rumor has surfaced that Eliza Dushku, who read for the Mary Jane part in Spidey, might return in the third film as The
  Black Cat. Just a rumor, folks, but a neat one at that.
• Late last week, on Jeopardy, under the category “Independent Films”, Clerks was the question to the answer which was something to the effect of “Dante and
  Randall’s occupations are the namesake of this 1994 Kevin Smith Movie”. Braianiac record breaking champion Ken Jennings did not get the correct answer,
  but a very cool redhead at the far right did. Take THAT, Ken!
• Just a reminder: Kevin’s scheduled to receive the first ever “DVD Visionary” Award
  from VSDA this Wednesday, July 14th. We’ll have full coverage.

• Here ya go, folks! As promised, a nice look at the print ad that’s going to start running in the trades to tout the Clerks X DVD release! This is the one that’s detailing all the features, and DOES erroneously mention the TV pilot inclusion (again, it ain’t on there). However, the feature list is huge and you can see our good pal O’Halloran is front and center to promote this, the biggest and most ambitious View Askew DVD release yet. Click the image above for a full screen look (and possibly a peek at the packaging, though we’re not sure that’s actually finalized just yet). Enjoy.

• Kevin appeared in the April edition of Classic Gamer magazine in a Celebrity gamers article. He lists his favorite games, including, not surprisingly, NHL ‘95. Kevin’s piece shows up on page 44, right above Roger Ebert. You can actually access the entire issue in downloadable PDF form via their website (Issue #1). We’re putting a scan of Kev’s bit for ya right here tho! We’re easy on ya.
• That Clerks UK screening we mentioned earlier has moved times, so take note: Clerks now happens on Sunday the 11th at 1:00 PM.
• Empire Online has another small blurb, stemming back to Kevin’s UK Jersey Girl promo tour (namely, the Q&A). Nothing really new, but read it HERE if you so desire. And what the heck, come on back here soon and we’ll do this update thing all over again. See ya then.

• Well, it seems that Comedy Central did NOT have a newly edited version of Jay & Bob put together, at least, not in the way we’d hoped.
  Scenes were excised from the film and dialogue muted, for the most part — The alternate takes that were filmed have yet to see the light of day. Perhaps
  if the film ever makes it to even MORE mainstream networks, we’ll get to see some of that other stuff. You never know. But hey, we always enjoy catching
  a glimpse of ourselves on network TV. It’s that narcicism. Jay & Bob airs in butchered form throughout the month on Comedy Central.
• Chicagoland View Askew fans take note: On Sunday, July 25th at 10pm, the Marcus Cinemas at 16350 South LaGrange Road in Orland Park,
  Illinois will be screening “Clerks.” Tickets are only $5.00! Visit their website for more info. Don’t miss out on your
  chance to catch this true classic on the big screen as it celebrates its 10th anniversary.
• This site’s been around for a while, but for those of you still bumming over the loss of the Clerks TV pilot on the Clerks X discs, you
  CAN read more about the ill-fated show HERE. It breaks down the entire episode along with pictures,
  mini-bios of the cast, and then some. Better than nada!
• There’s a small Kevin Smith reference in Chuck Palahniuk’s (author of Fight Club) new book, Stranger Than Fiction. A chapter in which
  Palahniuk praises another author, Amy Hempel, is entitled “Not Chasing Amy”. His stuff’s very fascinating, and definitely worth checking into if you can
  drag yourself away from the tube for a little while.
• Chasing Amy gets brought up in this Salon.com article regarding a book
  on film critic Pauline Kael.
• One of the best reality series of all time makes its Season 2 DVD debut next week – Yep, that’s right, it’s Project Greenlight 2! This
  show is one of the few that we’re actually riveted by whenever it airs, so if you missed its HBO run, do NOT miss this set. Here’s the details:

Greenlight 3 is in process now and should air on Bravo, though no airdates have been set up yet.

• The new interview with Matt Damon is now hitting newsstands in the latest Playboy issue. Subscribers should start receiving their copies
  next week. We’ll get a transcription of anything Askew-related up for ya here.