Guys:

Vast and numerous reports of the 'Smokin' DVD being impossible to
come by its first week in release. Very excited to hear this. Hope everybody
is enjoying the film, the commentaries, the bonus features, etc. We are
indeed the #1 rented and purchased title in the country as of this moment.
I'll just sit back and enjoy the glow until 'DeJa Vu' hits.

All of the winners should be receiving their free DVD's mit additional swag! Either
today or tomorrow.

Dane and Matthew should be thrilled to know that FINALLY, their winning
posters are being sent out.

JC

Guys:

Grateful that I have such smart, devoted loyalists to this blog. I really
appreciate all the thougts about the tragedy at Virginia Tech. There
is some very powerful, very eloquent writing on this site in regards to
what happened last week. As much as this blog is supposed to be about
movies and 'Smokin' Aces' in particular, we should never lose sight of the
fact that in the end, while film is an art form, it should never supplant those
discussions and forums that deal with real life and real human drama.

My thanks for all your contributions.

JC

The shooting at Virginia Tech is something so profoundly sad that to sit here
and try to quantify and understand it seems utterly superfluous. The damage
that has been done to the friends and familes of the victims will continue to
ferment long after the media has turned its collective gaze to the next burgeoning
tragedy. We can only offer our greatest grief and sympathy. I can't imagine what
those poor people must be going through. The pain that has enveloped them.
I hope it passes just as quickly. I pray it does.

The inevitable knives have come out for the entertainment industry's
role in this horrible ordeal. 'Oldboy' Chan Wook Park's 2003 revenge film has
been cited as probable inspiration for that asswipe's senseless slaughter of thirty-two
innocent souls...and it just doesn't ride. There are sick, deviantly, deeply disturbed
f*cking people roaming this rock and movies HAVE never been and WILL never be
a mitigating factor in extreme acts of hatred and violence. The demons that whispered
to that pathetic piece of shit were working the wheel and grinding the gears long
before 'Oldboy' ever appeared on the 'New Releases' rack.

Don't blame anybody but that lunatic and whatever lack of proper parenting
contributed to his condition:

PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR KIDS. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR UPBRINGING. TRY
TO FOSTER DECENT, LOVING, RESPECTFUL CHILDREN.

The rest will work itself out. I promise. I've got two absolute winners that bear my
last name and NOTHING I ever accomplish or contribute in my time on this earth will
equal what they mean to me. They are my most precious thought at all times.

Other parents, fathers just like me, lost all that on monday.

Children: Young, brilliant, bursting with everything good and new and hopeful, were
cut down. Whatever you believe in. Call it God, call it Nature, call it the Universe.
Please put them in your prayers. Hope that there is a world after this one and that
each and every one of them is at peace.

If you've got kids, give 'em a big hug and hold 'em...you can't do it enough.

JC