On-line dentist referral service SmileWorks has partnered with the new Stuart Little movie, I suppose to promote going to the dentist to kids. (I also notice that the IMDb Stuart Little page has ads for the Stuart Little movie as both of its banner ads. Stuart Little is the topmost ad on every page, it seems.) Kinda reminds me of when Beloved "sponsored" a program on PBS, and in the sponsor space they just played the trailer...

Leave it to Lisa to beat me to the Salon story on Scott Dikkers mentioning the new Jim's Journal Treasury (gimme!). I'm particularly delighted to hear that Dikkers was fully aware of the philosophical nature of his own comic. I always wondered how Scott actually felt about the strip , especially considering his more abrasive humorist interests, but I never bothered to hunt for articles or interviews. I'm also delighted that the Treasury has additional token material so those of us that own all four [sic, see below] books have an exc use to get this one.

--And it wasn't until I noticed the Amazon user review's mention of "all 5 Jim's Journal collections" that I knew there was a fifth. The Onion's Grotesquely Self-Serving Holiday Gift Guide mentions the title: I Feel Like A Grown-Up Now. Why didn't anyone tell me there was a fifth?!?

Of the handful of people I know that know of Jim's Journal (including those I've tried to introduce it to), a very small percentage like it, and none of 'em seem to go on about it like I u sually do. I used to use it as a dating litmus test, but it ended up eliminating too many possibilities. :)

That AV Club Gift Guide mentions Dikkers' film Spaceman. It also mentions a "Jim Anchower screenplay", available "free to the right peo ple".