Seafarer,
My introduction to Jay and Silent Bob was in Dogma. I laughed my arse off. Since then I have seen Clerks and an evening with Kevin Smith. It looks like I'll just have to get the entire collection. My mother, a staunch and staid Catholic lady, tried to hide her laughter at Dogma. It is so irreverent, it is bad, and so bad, it is hysterical, at least, to me. My son and I talked about it this morning. I don't know why I love movies like this (or Airplane, or Monty Python, or the Marx Brothers) , but can't stand stuff like Dumb and Dumber and Ace Ventura.
I'm thinking that maybe you aren't so far off-center from some CAS shooters. A bunch of us are just "bozos on the bus."
AnnieLee