Twitter is one of my favourite things these days. I love that there’s an instant way to broadcast out to anyone eho’s interested enough to follow you, and I’ve been able to keep up with friends, colleagues and people I think are just awesome.

I’ve limited myself to following 50 people, simply because otherwise I’d have forty million tweets to slog through every morning. Hence, picking these 50 people can get to be tricky, and I’ve almost nailed the list…

…but Kevin Smith has got to go. I’m done with him.

Let me clear on the outset: I was a huge fan. Just absolutely die hard. I’ve bought Clerks three times for Chrissakes. Joined the View Askew message board a few days after it started. Treasure a limited edition DVD slipcase from his online store that a dear friend was kind enough to send me. No trip to the states would be complete to me without coming home with a new Kevin Smith-related DVD. I have a ton of photos from the time I visited Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash in Los Angeles. I can’t help but answer the phone without saying “What, what do you want?” in that Randal-esque voice from Clerks.

So, yeah. Fan. Superfan!

Hell I even made a comic about him once and was stoked that it ran on his official news site!

But lately he’s changed for the worse and I really can’t support him any more.

I first noticed it in his Smodcast, which is usually hilarious, but lately all the episodes were just about how he all he’s done lately is sit around the house and smoke pot and watch TV. And so were his blog posts. And so were his twitter posts. And so was his latest movie, couched with high school humour about vibrators and pornography.

Zack & Miri isn’t a Kevin Smith movie, really. It’s a Seth Rogen movie…or at least a movie about how much Kevin Smith wants to be Seth Rogen. See, Seth Rogen is Kevin Smith ten years younger, more popular and able to make movies that connect with audiences that by and large spend their time sitting around watching movies while smoking pot. I really think Kevin Smith’s downfall is meeting Seth Rogen, to be honest. Smith was smart and clever and really on the ball before Rogen came along and loused everything up. Prove me wrong.

This isn’t a rant about the evils of drugs. I’m not anti-drugs by the way, I’m just anti having to listen to boring people. And unless you’re stoned as well, pot smokers are the most boring people on the freakin’ planet to talk to.

And Lord is Kevin Smith boring! I just don’t really want to listen / read / watch the adventures of someone who doesn’t DO anything. The idea behind being an entertainer is to DO things. How on Earth does his wife put up with him? I would have kicked him out ages ago. It’s like being at a bar where everyone’s wasted but you’re a designated driver and you’re bored out of your mind just waiting for your friends to call it a night.

Dear Kevin: Please give up the pot. It’s making you duller than a worn out shoe. Maybe you can make a movie I’m halfway interested in again too, or at the very least start posting tweets that are more than:

1) Neglected my wife and kid again today, really don’t like them much
2) Smoked pot and watched TV
3) Some random NHL baloney nobody cares about
4) Man, I love pot
5) Decided to mix up things a bit by watching TV and smoking pot twice as much as usual

Snore.

Oh yeah this has nothing to do with Plant-Man but hey not everything in life is you know!

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