• A guy named Vinny mailed us and let us know that he did a makeup job on Chris Rock for a Rolling Stone layout and had the chance to ask him a quick question about Dogma. He said that he was a “very cool guy, was very high on the script for Dogma, and seems like a fun person to work with.” Just thought you folks might like to know.

• Ok, if you think I’m talking too much about this, just tell me, but now I hear that Nicolas Cage has completely agreed to wearing THREE different costumes throughout the movie to help with toy merchandising, as well as driving some sort of “SuperCar”, which also will be of course created into ANOTHER toy. It really sucks seeing such a great script getting turned into this, especially after waiting so many years for another GOOD Superman movie. Alright, I’m done.

• Ming announced that the dormant Fringe Askew section of the View Askew Webpage is now active! You can now stop by and visit sites dedicated to A Better Place, Big Helium Dog, and Vulgar. All these are independent films that View Askew is producing, so you know they gotta be good. Fringe Askew will keep you up to date on all this kind of stuff, and we’ll do our best to keep you informed on THIS site as well.

• We apologize for the lack of updates today, but promise to make up for it tomorrow. We finally got our hands on a second-hand washer and dryer today and were busy moving it in, hooking it up, and cleaning up the water that the washer spewed all over our basement floor. If anyone lives in the Central PA area and knows how to fix washers, please let me know. For now, guess it’s back to the laundromat for us. Come back tomorrow for some real news.

• Here’s The Latest Casting Announcement from the Dogma world: Alan Rickman!

Things are looking up! If Rickman continues his usual trend, we can assume he’ll be playing a villain of some sort in this one. Then again, stranger things have happened in a Smith film. Keep coming back here for all the latest Dogma casting info.

• We’ve got a neat little addon for you Windows users out there. Now you can have Jay dance around as your mouse cursor, just like you see in our custom Drinks Askew web buttons! Say goodbye to that flipping hourglass or that stupid little running dog and give your desktop some class! Just download this file, move it to your C:WindowsCursors directory, and select it under your Control Panel. Snoogans!

• Here’s some frightening news we snagged from the View Askew WWWBoard:

I’m not sure what’s scarier, Jay with a modem or the thought of Jay walking around with a laptop! But seriously, we’d like to extend our warmest welcomes to him once he hits Cyberspace, and definitely look forward to seeing him on the webboards, visiting our website, and sending us threatening e-mails.

• First they brought you their Clerks Tour, then their custom Bluntman and Chronic figures, now Ralph and Mike have done it again, this time with their “Chasing Amy Tour”! They’ve also added a “Meet Jay” section to their growing credits of Askewniverse members with whom they’ve spoken. You can find a link to their main page in our “Links Askew” section. Congrats, guys! Good job!

• I’ll be honest with you, I’ve never been a big supporter of these, but if you’re into this sort of stuff, a View Askew mailing list has started. This is basically a way for folks to chat Askewness through e-mail messages, which you receive (normally) bunches at a time. Here’s how to get on the list:

If you decide to join the list, let us know how it’s working out. You can e-mail the guy who started this, Skeeve Stevens if you have any questions, I suppose.

• Here’s some info on the upcoming Clerks comic, hot off the presses (The story that is, not the actual issue):

With Kevin doing the writing you can bet these things will be top-notch in quality, and I’m sure they’ll tie together nicely with the current Askewniverse. Plus, it’ll be cool to walk into the Stash and see Clerks and J&SB comics on the shelves. Perhaps Kev will have an in-store signing when the books are released? Time will tell.