Even though RED STATE was written pre-weed, I’ve read StonerKev’s first green-induced script (HIT SOMEBODY). As much as I love ClerksKev, StonerKev’s a WAY better writer. Actually, all of StonerKev’s productivity’s through the fucking roof. StonerKev built the SModcast NETWORK!

Did #CopOut for the love, not the $$$. Gave up 83% of my salary cuz I believed. Still do. Glad I did, too – as RED STATE came out of it.

Via @LTfeatures “did you see the EPIX video from your birthday party? http://epx.ms/9Vez2X ” I look like DaveSemenko. AFTER he ate Gretzky.

Via @DailyMarauder “At the @GeekAwards. Movie winner Kev just got MrMoviefone to say the word cock” I was pretty proud of that. Big thanks.

Via @moviefone “Pics from the Geek Awards (& our award to @thatkevinsmith) : http://bit.ly/d5R51K ” I will cherish it always. Thanks, folks!

Via @rockerprod “any new etines shoes coming out soon?” @etniesCulture said they’re making 300 more pair in that style, then changing color.

We’ll drop our contact at Etnies a line to find details on when the next set of 300 will arrive, and what the next color might be — Stay tuned, we’re expecting the next 300 pair to sell just as fast as the first batch.

On Flicks..

Sweet BDay gift from @RyanJReynolds (not GreenLantern RR): #CopOut banner with 1500 opening night tix: http://tinyurl.com/ryanspresenttokev

Via @artvander “Saw #CopOut. SWS has never been funnier.” Made me want to cast him in HIT SOMEBODY. But now he’s circling GOON. *sigh*

Via @Film_2_140 “has SWS read HIT SOMEBODY script yet? Is it Near done” No – been a busy month, so still on pg101. Hence he’s circling GOON.

Via @Film_2_140 “surprised he’s looking at Goon?” Nah: they’re ready to roll. HIT’s not ’til AFTER RedState – so mid-2011 the earliest.

Via @boomertl “goon and HS are very similar” Not from what I’ve been told. At all. Besides: the more hockey flicks, the better. #SellTheGame

Via @thaskizz “will you be acting in Red State or Hit Somebody?” Nah. Those days are over. Rather be in front of a microphone than a camera.

Speaking of #CopOut – SIGNED BD/DVDs! http://www.jayandsilentbob.com/copoutbldvds.html OR http://www.jayandsilentbob.com/copoutdvdsib.html

Via @YourRealDad76 “Am I ever gonna get to play a Jay and Silent Bob video game?” If any VG company had serious interest, I’d be into it…

On Live Appearances…

Via @CJDavis0605 “What’s the good word? Boston show going to be rescheduled?” I’m hearing December 12th. Will confirm that soon…

Via @dselig119 “when will your bday DVD be out?” Not a DVD; an @EpixHD 2 hour special! Peep it here on October 23rd: http://www.epixhd.com/

Via @insidehw “EPIX exclusive comedy special – KevinSmith:TooFatFor40 http://epx.ms/aeRK1i ” For press release/air date, click READ IT.

Via @MikeDuyn “didnt u tell the story of why last movie felt like work at bday Q&A?” Iceberg’s tip, sir. One day. Too soon.

Via @ValShelby “can you do another day where you answer ? 24hrs” Yes: Labor Day – to raise $$$ for http://viewaskew.com/thewaynefoundation

Via @Ptrst “How will that raise money?” I’ll Tweet the donation link all day, keeping a running tally, shaming into giving. #Tweetathon2010

On SModcast and SModcastle…

Via @Qatami “starting a podcast, could you take a pic of your personal recording set-up as example” http://tinyurl.com/WhatSModGearLooksLike

Via @deadpool60169 “Is Malcolm’s Gay Clown Show going to be posted online?” Like most @SModcastle shows, if show sells out, show get posted.

The @SModcastle exists because of @CamelToad. Thank him by supporting his pair of Friday Night shows: http://smodcastle.com/tickets.html

Via @Coreyranes “You should have NHL 10 tournament again” Coming soon to @SModcastle, via Lit101 guy: http://www.smodcastle.com/tickets.html

Via @JayMewes “Coming home next week. recording HIGHLANDS: http://www.smodcastle.com/tickets.html ” Mewes is PERMANENT Highlands 3D cohost!

@shawnwrites “what cartoons can we expect on Saturday? Old? New? Both?” This week, it’s all @Starktoons action! But in the future, we wanna open it up to submissions: if you’re an animator who wants to see their stuff on screen, contact @SModcastle or @CamelToad.

On Comics…

Via @JackBauer2417 “ever consider becoming full-time Batman writer?” Been asked, but I can’t keep to a schedule. I’m content w/ CACO & GYRE.

Via @RChazzChute “Just read Gyre #6. Delicious! Thanks! When’s volume 2?” Starts in Jan. GYRE Hardcover is just in time for Christmas: 12/8.

Via @Dedlok “by christmas meaning december-ish?” Yes – right around time of CACOPHONY soft cover. GYRE hardcover will have extras…

Via @JakeGalliher “went to Comic shop to pick up GYRE 1-6 couldn’t find 2,3″ I’m your pusher: http://www.jayandsilentbob.com/comicbooks.html

All the tweets you can handle for free by following @ThatKevinSmith.

Via @thecolecash “How is “Red State” coming along?” Dave & I storyboarded for a few hours today. Found this amazing actress for Cheyenne…

Via @filmthreat “Where’s RedState being filmed?” California, sir. Up Whittier way. 80% of it shoots behind maximum security walls. #srsly

Via @sonic43 “Did you decide if RedState was shooting digital or film” Last I heard from @ThatDavidKlein, RED will be shot on a @RedCamera.

Via @Billy3152 “spot for hockey guys Leary or Sandler in Hit Somebody?” Massive cast, but I’m looking to surround Seann w/ CANADIAN actors.

Via @njosnavelin714 “You really believe HitSomebody’ll be the best film you ever make” 100 pages in, before we shoot a frame, it already is.

Via @StephanieClark_ “when do you start shooting for Hit Somebody?” Hopefully mid-2011. So let’s stop talking about it. Getting blue balls.

Via @SansomJam “Hit Somebody a comedy or something akin to The Wrestler?” It’s funny, but I don’t know if I’d call it a comedy. s’like GUMP.

Via @cmatthes1 “MCM mode of #CopOut gives me hope for the new BluRay extras” It’s pretty entertaining. Watched opening w/crowd & it crushed.

Via @bigstunz “Walt killed it in latest Smodcast” He CRUSHED PrimaNocta TELL’EM LIVE. Ask @BryAndWalt to put that 1 up on Friday. Pure gold.

Me & @SMosier sang FAMILY TIES & this dude mixed it into TIE’s opening credits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5LIs5W5JpM&feature=related

Via @MasterBruceSHH “Just read Gyre #6. Best ish so far. kudos for the last twist” Walt & I have been waiting a year for that splash page…

Via @denmark116 “How long do we wait for volume 2?” GYRE Vol. 2 starts up after the first of the year. And it’s a MUCH more familiar Bats…

Via @pcraig20 “how long the Green Hornet run is going to be” 10 issues. Then, I start begging @jimlee00 to do HORNET/BATMAN crossover mini.

Via @jace1013 “looks like #CopOut did well: http://bit.ly/9R3DyO #1 on every list” Congrats to the Movie Formerly Known As A Couple of Dicks

Via @lunchboxfett “When can we hear SModcastle opening night?” Not for awhile. Lots of banked shows to get up first: Philly, Billings, SF…

Via @dimmke “Can you stop making movies & just do #SModcast every day” Working on it, sir. Once we’re done with HIT SOMEBODY, s’possible…

@omfgitzjay “Will WYSMC be on SModcast Network?” No: to be a part of SModcast.com you’ve gotta know me REALLY well. Wanna know why? SModcast.com isn’t just weekly podcasts by me & my friends; it’s actually a more ambitious, ongoing project: SMod’s my autobiography.

This is my 10,000th Tweet. I’m using it to thank all y’all for following. You’ve given me enough juice to jump start the Act 2. Many thanks.

Our particular favorite Twitter highlight from the last week is a run that Kevin did on historical photos and posts back on July 20 and 21. If you didn’t see it, go back and seek out this stream. Tons of great photos and links in there.

“I’m right now on Page 81 of the script. It’s big. I mean big in terms of long; it spans a life. We go from 1950 to 1980, and Seann William Scott is going to be my guy, the guy that plays the lead. It’s based on the song that Warren Zevon recorded that Mitch Albom wrote the lyrics to. (The song is on “My Ride’s Here,” Zevon’s 2002 album.) …

We’re shooting in Detroit, too. I reached Warren’s estate about the song, and they said, “You’ve got to talk to Mitch Albom because Mitch Albom controls that song.” I said, ” ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ Mitch Albom?” So I got in touch with Mitch first by e-mail, and then he came to New York while I was there shooting “Cop Out.”

So he came and we hung out for about two hours, went downstairs and ate at the Ritz-Carlton down in Battery Park. At the end of it, he goes: “I gotta tell you, man, I felt like it was important to be face to face with you if I was gonna hand over the song. It’s a big deal.” He was like: “I don’t know how else to explain it, and I know there’s business deals and stuff later on. But I just feel like I wanted to see your face and to hear you talk about it.”

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“…A lot of (the film) is going to take place in the ’70s. Detroit looks like it stopped in the ’70s, so we literally don’t have to set-decorate or set-design. We just turn on the camera and there’s an old building. It’s a great place and hopefully we’ll do it justice.

It’s almost like, for me, the closest parallel to it is “Forrest Gump” and not in terms of we’re gonna have all these amazing special effects in it. It’s just you follow one very simple person in a life that just touches everything throughout history and the sport, so it’s kinda like that. It’s ambitious, we’re not gonna be as good as “Forrest Gump,” but it’s ambitious.

It’s funny, but it’s not the comedy that I do. Like right now, honestly it’s still PG-13, there’s no cursing in it.”

“Hit Somebody” is planned to shoot following the completion of “Red State”, which goes in front of cameras in August.

Opening night of the Toronto Film Festival: SCORE! A HOCKEY MUSICAL. Peep the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53UnxbugTOA

Via @PhoenixKahuna “is there a time limit for the b-day q&a?” Nope. Expect at least 4 hours of show: http://tinyurl.com/ItWas40YearsAgoToday

Via @e2thej “WideningGyre sounds a little bit naughty” Wanna know HOW naughty? Cum to our panel: http://viewaskew.com/events/comikev2010

Remember the Alamo: http://yfrog.com/jyib2nj Houston, you have a problem. Or rather, you’re GONNA: http://tinyurl.com/DirtyBoysTalkingDirty

The sentiment was really more that I always thought I had 10 flicks in me. Never said they’d be good; just said felt I had 10 to write.

QUEBEC! I’m coming to you this week! My promise: I will NOT do bad impressions of your accents! http://seekevinsmithsweat.com #JustForLaffs

Via @gavinlarkins “will we ever get full story about what happened” Nah. But Mos & I are gonna do live Z&M commentary track in October…

Via @TheMattDenton “How much money do you/View Askew spend on whimsy domains?” Not tons, but we DO own www.pillowpants.com amongst others.

@biaxident “HitSomebody might have competition http://bit.ly/cRndua” HIT’s 2 years away & a different story altogether. Another flick called THE GOON happening too. S’all good: MORE hockey flicks > Less. HIT unaffected. But I’m in for SCORE; sounds like GLEE on ice.

LOS ANGELES @BryAndWalt fans! WTF?! Only 60/200 Improv sold & show’s a week from today! If you want it posted… http://tinyurl.com/tellemla

Follow @ThatKevinSmith, as you know the dude’s twitter-fu is faster than our web-fu. Get the tweets up to the second!

OPENING FUCKING NIGHT of the FIRST PODCASTING THEATER IN HISTORY! Tell your grandkids you were there! http://smodcastle.com

Via @JohnJulitz “Any plans for a fourth Evening With” We’re shooting the birthday show next month: http://tinyurl.com/ItWas40YearsAgoToday

Via @SansomJam “RED STATE casting announcements?” I’ll likely spill all at the annual Hall H panel: http://viewaskew.com/events/comikev2010

Via @xHeatsink “what happened to the people’s studio?” When we sell RED STATE, I’m putting 100k into the kitty to kick open the doors.

Via @MosEisley08 “Based on what you’ve done of Hit Somebody script, what kind of rating you going for?” Unintentionally, it’s a PG13 so far.

Via @traviswycoff “heard you on kevin&bean yesterday, funny shit” Gonna be on K&B again ComiCon week, Friday morning, AT the Con.

Via @AVShomerx “15yrs on Mallrats. need extended cut BluRay” Hear that, @UniversalPics? I know it’s no CHARLIE ST.CLOUD, but show it love…

Via @Doubl3Dos3 “How come you aren’t on the Widening Gyre Panel at SDCC?” Too Fat to Panel. *sigh* (I’ll be there: Thursday, 12:30, Room 4).

The Montreal Gazette wins paper of the day: they let me mix references to the Habs and sodomy: http://bit.ly/cd8nZS

Follow @ThatKevinSmith for lots more.

In other news, Kevin reveals a big international “Evening With” in Syndey for early August, and more on SModcast and the castle, which may soon be the ONLY place on the planet to catch live SModcast. Read on:

Prisoners of AUSTRALIA! I am coming to set you free! Meet me at the SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE on 8/8! http://tinyurl.com/KevComesToTheLandDownUnder

Via @1973z “any chance of a visit to Perth?” Sydney only this time around. The OPERA HOUSE! When I get home, we start shooting RED STATE.

Via @Accidental_Rob “Any big plans for your 40th b’day?” It involves a stage. And some cameras. http://tinyurl.com/ItWas40YearsAgoToday

Via @BazTinkOTheRink “Mosier working on Red State or is he doing his own thing” His own thing, sir. Which includes SModcast, naturally.

Via @LynchAtLarge “any chance of a cameo by @JimNorton in Red State” No, but I want him to play a Glenn Hall-like goalie in HIT SOMEBODY.

@RetroDLC “Have you ever thought about using digital cameras (EG: Red) exclusively?” @ThatDavidKlein & I visited the Red Studio & our eyes & boners popped at the portability & better-than-film look. That camera is fucking magic. AND poetic: Red Cameras for #RedState.

@evilneuro ” yet your candy ass is on the front cover: http://www.amazon.com/Cop-Rock-Your-Glock-Blu-ray/dp/B002ZG970G ” When you see the BluRay, you’ll know why: I’m literally the third lead in the BluRay version of #CopOut . It’s like the flick was blended with Q&A.

Last night at the Improv, #LIVEnudeSMOD crushed it! Mostly because I sat on it, but still. Come & see for yourself: http://livenudesmod.com

This Saturday night in PROVINCETOWN, I’m getting feted. Or fisted. Can’t remember which. But when in Rome, I say… http://shar.es/mk8qf



Inch by inch, a Twitter-fueled stoner whimsy is made flesh! Behold! http://tinyurl.com/ScaleSModcastleWalls YOU! Follow @SModcastle

Thanks to the live Kevin Smith Twitter feed for these…Hit it up for a lot more.

In other news, more podcast updates, comic updates, and more, in this week’s “Twitter” report:

Via @deadsville “RED STATE…dead or alive?” Very alive. Scripts/offers went out to a pair of actors yesterday. Lead baddie also locked in.


Via @ryanaleczander “What’s gonna be next, Red State or Hit Somebody” RED starts mid-August. Wanna start pre on HIT when I wrap post on RED.

Via @mdesjard16 “Kevin FINALLY coming to Montréal!” And here’s how you see me: http://montreal.hahaha.com/en/shows/artists/kevin-smith

Look who’s back in WIDENING GYRE 6: http://www.viewaskew.com/kevin/lawton.jpg I write, Walt draws, you read: http://tinyurl.com/wideninggyre

My favorite podcast: TELL ‘EM, STEVE-DAVE! Ep13: @BryAndWalt are still trapped at the flea market. VERY funny: http://smodcast.com/stevedave

Via @Tompa83 “Will we see a new @starktoons smodimation tomorrow?” First Monday of each new month, sir. http://www.smodcast.com/smodimations

Get lost in a NEW SMOD! SModcast 118: You Betzler. In which our heroes are no longer live & are coming to get you, Babs. http://smodcast.com

Get the latest up-to-the-second updates at the official Kevin Smith Twitter feed at twitter.com or via your client of choice.

Via @torontoist “The Toronto Underground Cinema Prepares to Rise Up: http://bit.ly/aOyRC8 ” Looks like a great place to SMod…

Via @Anthem85 “please buy a nicer mic for SMods. You get really distorted when laughing/loud” Part of the charm is sounding home-made, sir.

@chefcharming “bottom line, did Cop Out make money?” Only cost 32mil, so we’re all good & WB happy. Home video still ahead, too. But best of all? It led directly to both RED STATE and HIT SOMEBODY money (& lead). Oddly, worst reviewed flick was biggest bucket of win.

Via @Anthem85 “script of HIT? How many pages you in” 52. Wanted Canadian feedback, so I showed some to @MalcolmIngram. Ask him what he said.

Via @hockeynight “Nice to see that you’re including some Canadian compatriots in the process” Hockey Night makes first appearance on page 5.

SModcast114: Highlands – A Peephole History, Pt 1. First chapter in a sporadic, ongoing SMod sub-series. Only at http://www.smodcast.com

There’s a fantastic series of tweets from Kevin recalling his wedding as he celebrates his 11th anniversary that’s worth the trip alone, along with the great before and after pic we posted above.

Wanna BE green while reading my GREEN HORNET? Voila: http://bit.ly/9hZu4t Feel the Hornet’s sting on iPhone/Pod/Pad (sorry: no MaxiPad).

See me swear & sweat LIVE ON THE SUNSET STRIP! Me talking dirty at L.A.’s House of Blues, Friday, May 7th! http://viewaskew.com/events/hob

Via @dvdmike “plans for #CopOut bluray?” I’ve seen it. WB’s giving it MaximumMovieMode treatment (like WATCHMEN or 300). It’s LOADED.

Via @tim_brooks “will you be talking about the flick like z.snyder in watchmen’s max.movie mode?” Nonstop, starting with shield interaction.

A few years back, @SMosier produced an AcademyAwardNominated short film entitled SALIM BABA. Got a sec? http://tinyurl.com/PeepSalimBabaHere

Via @LukasRidge “whats the best thing you’ve ever written?” Could be on page 42 of it now… #HitSomebody

Here there be bickering! TELL ‘EM, STEVE-DAVE #7 is now ready to tickle your aural funny boner! I bow to them. http://smodcast.com/stevedave

Via @bluepoet3 “when does Batman: WG #6 street?” I think they resolicited the book & now it’s closer to June. Long wait, but worth it.

Via @bobbahawk “any chance you’ll be playing Carnegie Hall again? SModcast?” Yes. There was a June offer but we’re gonna wait ’til November.