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Check out two snazzy new t-shirts, now for sale at the Stash, inspired by Clerks II — Randal’s “Count Cockula” tee, and Elias’s “RoboChrist” tee.
Catch the outstanding episode of ICONS: Kevin Smith, re-airing on Saturday, August 5th at 7:30pm and Sunday, August 6th at 5:30pm and 11:30pm only on G4 TV. One of the best retrospectives we’ve seen in a while.
The IMDB’s home page has a photo of Kevin in their “born today” frame on the front page. Happy Birthday, Kevin!
Will Ferrell, in character as Ricky Bobby (promoting his new film), was interviewed by NASCAR.COM and had this fun bit of business to say:

NASCAR.COM: … Umm yeah, moving on. Talladega Nights premiered this weekend. What were your thoughts on seeing your life story on the big screen?

Ricky Bobby: I don’t get out to the movies that much, but Bluntman and Chronic was blunt-tastic.

Still cleaning out some leftover Clerks II stuff from the files here: Today, some scans from local Philadelphia area papers on the flick, from the Inquirer and the Intelligencer — These came to us from none other than Chris’s GRANDMOTHER. How ’bout that huh?
The residents of the town of Canberra, Australia have something interesting going on: A petition they’ve started, trying to get Kevin Smith to come to their town. When word that the man is visiting Australia very soon for the Clerks II premiere broke out, the folks of Australia’s capital city thought, why not try and get him to visit? Check out the story on their website! You can also find a mention of the campaign in the Daily Telegraph this week (a Sydney based newspaper with a readership of 1,009,00), and in a short movie called “Comic Clerks” that was filmed for the campaign, uploaded to YouTube. We hope the folks will keep us posted, perhaps Kevin can stop by if he can work it into his schedule!

A website called Boxerjam.com put featured Kevin’s name in a word puzzle on their site today (for his birthday, perhaps?) Shots above.
The latest editon of MovieWeb’s “An Open Letter” column features a kind open letter to Kevin.
Kudos to Kevin Dilmore, writer of a new Star Trek novel, who appeared wearing a snazzy piece of clothing during a signing at Comic-Con.
And finally today, fans of the Clerks Cartoon may find this one fun.Bear is driving boat? How can that be? See ya next time!

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