KEVIN SMITH
silentbobspeaks.com

ANGLE: Diary, comedic op-ed, and plugs for his ''SModcast'' podcasts and live appearances.

HIGH POINT: It's a tie between a happy-birthday greeting for his wife (''From a one-night-stand to my partner and soul mate. You boggle my mind, you fill my heart, you race my blood, you take my breath away'') and a series of e-mails between Smith and a writer from The Clarion-Ledger in Mississippi debating whether Alanis Morissette sang a tune called ''One of Us.'' (Smith was right — she didn't.)

LOW POINT: After famously attacking film critic Joel Siegel for walking out of a Clerks II screening, Smith repents when he discovers that the spat is mentioned in a Siegel obituary.

VERDICT: Smith calls his diary ''My Boring-Ass Life''; it's apropos, given that much of it addresses subjects such as his diet and his man-crush on Bruce Willis. Nonetheless, fans will appreciate his candor. A-