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So I'm at Starbucks (My regular haunt, Common Grounds, is "remodeling"), and I've been coming every day for about two weeks, so the staff has gotten to that "casual barista conversation" point.

Anyway, I'm working on my laptop, with a recent episode of the Daily Show going in the corner, when I laugh out loud at one of the jokes (Andy Samberg explainging how he got inspired to do the "Dick in a Box" video: "Well, I had this penis, and Timberlake came by. He's good at singing..."). One of the baristas asks me if I'm laughing an an email, a show, whatever, and I explain that my job involves some repetitive and tedious tasks that I've gotten so good at cranking out, that I can watch TV at the same time, killing two birds with one stone.

I get up to head outside at this point, further explaining (before I'm out the door) that I wait until I'm home to watch foreign films (not saying "because I can't focus on the subtitles.").

They thought I said "porn films."

Hilarity ensued.

I'm glad I didn't add "Yeah, my girlfriend and I will occasionaly cuddle up on the couch to watch that kind of thing," which I very nearly did.

The woman in this video is Jacqueline Patterson, and she's one of the features subjects in a new Showtime documentary, In Pot We Trust.

Before I watched this documentary, I often spoke of my astonishment that weed is illegal. It's the only illegal drug that you can't overdose on, and that alone made up my mind, in terms of casual conversation. In Pot We Trust discusses medical marijuana in particular. The story of Jacqueline Patterson alone has firmly convinced me that medical marijuana should be legal. It's an astounding documentary, and I highly recommend it.

Note: I currently do not smoke pot, and I'm pretty confident I won't smoke it in the future. I'm not plugging this film in the hopes that I'll be able to get sweet kush delivered with my pizza. I still think everyone should be able to smoke it if they wish.

So I was texting on my Motorola/Verizon V325i the other day, and when I started to type in "september," i got the first four letters in and the autofill function automatically suggested "11" to follow it.

I guess the question is: did the guys who programmed this phone assume that we'd be texting each other about terrorism often enough to need this suggestion? Or were they just assheads?

A Must See. I've been a big fan of Mike Binder since The Mind of the Married Man, so I was expecting a good script. Saying Don Cheadle was good is like saying rain contains water.

Here's the line I never expected to write: Adam Sandler singlehandedly brought me to tears. Not that "I'm a dude" single tear you're usually allowed in extreme cases, but full on emotional shock. Punch Drunk Love impressed me, but this performance left me speechless.

At this rate, he's not too far from winning an Oscar. Seriously.

Just kidding, but it is a guy in a Speedo, so if you're a homophobe, you can pass. Also, if you're at work, and you don't want homophobes at work to start a rumor that you're gay, you can also pass.

Actually, aside from the fact that Japanese humor is so hard for me to fathom that this is rendered funny, I'm posting it for another reason. I actually watch so much TV from so many countries that I saw the judge at the end and thought "Is that Joe from Adam and Joe Go Tokyo?" This essentially means that I want to know if someone from a British show I watched that never aired in the US that was about Japanese culture quirks was now on a YouTube video of a Japanese (Game? Variety? Speedo?) show as a judge, or if it was just someone else that looks like him.

I watch too much TV. Thanks internet.

Seen:

A girl took up four spaces. Four. In a Ford Focus.

(Mental note: go here.)

Heard:

Girl on cell: "Yeah, my teeth are crooked, but my tits are perfect, so it all works out ok."

(No comment. My girlfriend might hit me.)

Seen (on the way home):

A custom truck with old English letters on the back window that said (actual spelling) "Abdnormal."

(Clearly.)