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Confession: We've been missing Ben Affleck a little bit. When a tabloid favorite like 'Ffleck drops out of the headlines for a while, we always jump to the worst conclusions: some kind of disastrous backyard whirlpool accident that will only be discovered by the pool boy days later, a three-week bender at the Palms, or a secret location shoot for Gigli 2 with the entire original cast. Luckily, a reader spotted him this morning at a WeHo Coffee Bean, just bein' Affleck. We just wish that our spotter's Hollywood training hadn't prevented us from finding out what had Ben so excited. Sobriety? The recent Red Sox resurgence? A big victory on his "Eating Babies for Kerry" tour? We suppose we'll never know.

Saw Ben Affleck this morning at the Sunset Plaza Coffee Bean. He was in line behind me. Looked great; would've expected him to look like the disheveled mess that won the poker tournament at Commerce, but he was clean-shaven and looked thinner that I would've expected him to look. Was chatting it up with a friend in line with that booming voice of his. I think he bellowed out something like "Now THAT'S what I'm talking about!" Could've been referring to the pastry counter for all I know, but I've been trained to avoid eye contact with celebs in my work; something to the effect of a "do not feed or harass the animals" mindset.