day seven of my cannabis hiatus...

sanjay: did you know that there are amazing opportunities to be had in the exploitation of emerging third-world countries?
conrad: (to sanjay) there's 300 billionaires in this country and 40 million people living below the poverty line. wake up 7-eleven; this is the fucking third world.
(nancy and conrad leave room)
nancy: how do you know all that stuff?
conrad: the daily show.

-weeds, episode 21

i haven't written in a while. for the past few nights, i really couldn't will myself to write anything meaningful in here. it must've been all the free tv i get online (thanks victor for weeds and scrubs).

not to mention, marc has not been in for two days. so that is two days idly spent online websurfing and watching episodes. and here is my way overdue review of weeds.


weeds (showtime, season three begins august 13 at 10pm) is one of the most real, human tv shows that i have ever seen. granted, i don't watch much tv, but weeds reveals an underground world of drug dealing, politics, business, money, relationships, deception--all conveniently hidden under the delicate guise of a safe, suburban california community cutely named 'agrestic' (agrestic means 'rural'). weeds, created and produced by jenji kohan (writer for sex and the city, gilmore girls, and mad about you), is filled with sass and crass, witty and provocative dialogue. weeds really takes the standard 'american dream' and uncovers an entire side that most choose to ignore in a comedic, sometimes dark, manner. in it's audacity and blunt desire to cross controversial television standards (following showtime's mantra: 'no limits'), weeds does not beat around the bush with issues that other programs may be hesitant to address.

nancy botwin (mary-louise parker, who won the golden globe for best tv series-comedy in 2006, beating the other nominees who were all 'desperate housewives'), is widowed and left with two children. in order to maintain her lifestyle, she decides to deal marijuana and eventually begins growing her own strain (appropriately dubbed by snoop dogg as 'milfweed'). for the rest of the characters, there is celia hodes (elizabeth perkins) who is a self-righteous neighbor who hates her obese daughter (she calls her 'isa-belly'), as well as her cheating husband; doug wilson (hilarious kevin nealon) as nancy's accountant and business adviser, city councilman, and a huge pothead; heylia james (tonye patano) and her nephew conrad (romany malco) as nancy's first marijuana suppliers; and other drug dealers, a DEA agent, nancy's two adorable likable children, etc.

weeds is an adult show with adult subject matter that addresses issues on so many levels. watch season three! mary-kate olsen will be in the majority of this season as a love interest of silas botwin, nancy's oldest son. the upcoming season should be compelling, with or without a dime of sweet cheeba cheeba ;).

anyway, i am leaving work early to catch a bus to dc.

-andy