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MY DAD AND HOW HE MADE ME LIE TO THE CLERGY If he was still with us here in the land of the living, today would’ve been my Dad’s 78th Birthday. This photo, taken at the party after Harley’s baptism, perfectly sums up the dynamic of our relationship: we looked at stuff together in silence. [...]

I’ve been around 44 years now, and I’ve been a round boy for most of those years as well. I always imagined thinner people were happier than me – but after losing 80 pounds, I can’t say that I’m any happier than I was as a fat-ass. I’m not complaining, mind you: I just imagined [...]

There’ve been a few movie websites reporting I might’ve been involved in a BATMAN v SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE misinformation campaign, at the behest of Warner Brothers, director Zack Snyder and producer Chuck Roven. The idea was that everything I’ve ever said about the forthcoming big screen team-up of the World’s Finest is a carefully [...]

15 YEARS AGO TODAY, Jennifer Schwalbach and I took the worst wedding photo ever at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, California. We were in the midst of the DOGMA mix, staying on the property. I had come home from the sound stage and an already way-pregnant Jenny said “It’s so beautiful up here. If we [...]

If you listen to the EDUMACATION podcast, you’ll remember that episode 20 (Part 2 of the Christmas eps) consisted of another dopey conversation that resulted in a screenplay – a’la SModcast and TUSK. I was goofing around with Mr. Edumacation himself, Professor Andy McElfresh, when we accidentally brainstormed a Christmas horror anthology that would eschew [...]

In this picture above, from the set of MALLRATS – the guy in glasses on my right? The guy who kinda looks like my beardless Dad (and kinda was)? That’s the producer Jim Jacks. 20 years ago, Jim Jacks saw CLERKS at Sundance and introduced himself to me at the Fest-ending awards ceremony. We talked [...]

Every once in awhile, some prepuce on Twitter will suggest that I’ve become a lazy stoner who doesn’t do anything anymore. I get it: prior to TUSK, I hadn’t made a flick in 3 years. And since the flicks are how most folks came to know me, if there are no new films, I’m not [...]

UPDATE: So I spent 24 hour feverishly writing another script based on an episode of SModcast – this time SModcast # 52: The (C)Rapture. I got about 20 pages in when I realized there was no way to write this inexpensively as a feature film. Everything was requiring too many effects that I could never [...]

The non-buried lead: I’m writing this new flick based on another episode of SModcast from 2008. Also: I talk about my future in filmmaking. If you feel brevity is the soul of wit, you can stop reading now. If you like to read, here we go… On the most recent episode of SModcast, I talked [...]

And if you like women, NEVER call them “cunts”. Or get vulgar with them at all. And if you like me or my stuff at all, then NEVER express yourself to ANYONE – woman or man – in misogynistic terms. This is important to me. Even before I was married and had a daughter, this [...]