You know the best part of Kevin Smith. The fact that the guy seems game to just show up in any and all kids TV shows that ask. It’s him, Jack Black and Patton Oswalt who just seem to love to show up on PBS, Nick, Netflix and Disney shows. Sometimes parodying themselves and sometimes just random weird dudes.

I have not listened to his podcast in a couple years but he actually had been trying to take better care of himself. He lost a lot of weight and started getting more exercise.

Kevin Smith: (in hospital) “I’m not even supposed to be here today.”

Sure glad this wasn’t an “RIP, Kevin Smith” article. Hope he makes a full recovery.

Ugh, Nazi pedantry is up there with gun nut pedantry as the worst kind of pedantry.

My initial take was that she wanted to find out why Spencer thinks Jews, blacks & Mexicans are horrible, not that she thought they were horrible. Even after seeing an alternate interpretation, I still think that’s what she meant. But I think she sounds like an airhead.

They’re big on “Of course they aren’t Nazis, Nazism was specific to 1930s German politics and the party was officially disbanded in 1945, there are no Nazis any more!” as the sort of argument they expect will trick people into accepting their bigotry.

And you see, this is what I mean. I’m not used to thinking in this haphazard way.

In my daydreams, Obama walks in, says “How about a nice Hawaiian Punch?” and decks him!

How were the refreshments?

The mindset of everyone in that room it seems.

Whut?!?!? Tarantino is a windbag ass all on his own, @Terry Kiser Permanente:disqus - Rodriguez can, at least, direct an enjoyable movie without talking it to death!

I still love From Dusk till Dawn. I will never forget seeing it in the cinema for the first time when it came out. That opening scene still blows my hair back every time I watch it. Maybe I was just the right age at the time (about 15) to really appreciate it, I dunno.

The El Rey network is so great. I need to watch the movies they put on more, but they also have Lucha Underground which is the breath of fresh air that pro wrestling on TV has needed for years.

In Rebel Without a Crew, the big break he was looking for was hoping El Mariachi would be direct-to-video and on cable, so I think he just enjoys making silly shit. He clearly loves the production side of filmmaking more than telling a great story. He definitely seems more secure with his own level of success than…

"The whole catalog" is probably a bit of an exaggeration on my part, but it's 250+ movies. They're doling them out slowly, at 1-2 per week, but that's infinitely more than I was getting before. It takes me back to the heady days of watching USA's Kung Fu Theater as a 12 year old.

"Once Upon a Time in Mexico" is pretty awesome. It's his verison of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and its a fun, over-the-top shoot-em-up epic. Plus, it's got Johnny Depp in one of his most flat out entertaining roles ever.

It's been awhile since I connected with a Rodriguez movie in any way, but he has my endless support and thanks for licensing the entire Shaw Brothers catalog and putting 'em on the El Rey network.

All of the Viewaskeniverse films get Smith cred for me, but especially "Chasing Amy" and "Dogma." And "Zach and Miri Make a Porno" was pretty good too.

Fuck it, I'm going to own it and say that I still unironically enjoy pretty much all of Smith's films, with the exception of Tusk, Cop Out and Jersey Girl.