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TV rots your brain!

The cable dudes came and connected me up to the 'hundreds of channels and nothing' to watch electronic altar.

So today I got to come home and mindlessly flip between the football game (go pats!) and other things like Species... in HD... with nudity! and Smallville. (in HD but there was no nudity)

Now somewhere along the line I watched a couple of episodes of Smallville. I'm not an avid fan, and I sure don't know what has happened through the sum total of the multiple seasons. But, it has moments of extremely well done iconic brilliance. And it has some interesting premises.

Superman going through adolescence and dealing with 'changes to his body'. BRILLIANT (like when he realizes he has xray vision and Lana asks him, "Clark, what are you staring at?' or when he discovers heat vision (which is first tied to his libido!) What are the defining lessons that make a guy say "swell" as an adult, that create a man who stands for "Truth, Justice," (and Brian Singer pointedly points out, No longer the American Way.)

They take some liberties which are ironic if you know the punchline. Like he is afraid of heights. But they do do the visual imagery very well. There's an episode where he has to jump from one building to the next. He is wearing a blue t-shirt and has a red zipper sweater that flaps behind him. They started Lex Luthor and Clark as friends and there is a pretty good episode where there's a kid reading a super hero comic about "two best friends who become mortal enemies, and how one of them goes off to his fortess of (not solitude but some other similar word). The kid is a psychic and has a great discussion with Lex.

Lex - being evil isn't a light switch you turn on. It can happen over time.
Kid - yeah. Be careful Lex.

All of that is pretty good. I guess foreshadowing is easy-peasy when the material is that ingrained into the psyche.

The stuff about the meteorite rocks giving other teens powers... DUMB. (and the fact that anybody else with powers end up swaying to the dark side (some hidden message about absolute power corrupting? probably) (but still DUMB)

So the episode I watched had a guest star of Aqua Man. They made him an easy going surfer dude, and put him in an orange top and green shorts. They're starting to stretch the imagery now (I guess 6 seasons lets you do that)

A.C. Maybe we should start a Junior Lifeguard Association.
Clark - I don't think I'm ready for the J.L.A.
A.C. Stay super, bro...

Just nice to see another guy with super powers who isn't corrupted by evil. (though he is grounded in the DC reality of being another existing character.

There's a great line in American Gods when the protagonist is speaking to the new god 'Media' (not the Greek one).

shadow: what do people sacrifice to you?
media: mostly time, sometimes each other.

Dr Stephanie dressed up like Marge Simpson. She sent me pictures. She mentioned there wasn't a Homer at the party. Someday I'm going to convince her she wants to have a drink with me, or let me cook her a meal that doesn't rhyme with Mac N'Cheese. Or maybe that day won't happen. And I wont' be any worse or better off. (but I did send her a cactus for her birthday because she has due to negligence killed her house warming potted plant I gave her! - something a wee bit more rugged!)

I tried 6 of the 10 combinations for my lost peace corps volunteer. No dice yet. (though strangely enough someone called me back, like after I apologized for it being a wrong number to him... people are strange).

Heh. I was going to say I didn't drink tonight. (because I don't have the bottle of tequila uncorked and next to the computer) but I did have a beer so I'd be somewhat stretching the truth.

For an evening that had me all spun up about the morality tales of the evils of Internet dating (my bank account is twice drained now, so I can't give any more, I'm not like the giving tree, who loves her boy more than life itself). I'm in an ok place. re-finding the bb path- probably. Or winning a victory over a dating site after threatening to report them to the Better Business Bureau probably helped.

I'm looking forward to my birthday (in two weeks!), I'm going to hold court and feast on endless skewers of meat and toast caparinas. (or was that chubacabras?) If anyone's in the neighborhood and wants to come toast a drink and feast on endless skewers of meat (or if you're a vegetarian I'm sure they have nice vegetarian options too) let me know and I can give you more details.

We've made plans for an evening of sake, Japanese beer, and noodles and home made sushi. Going to watch Tokyo Drift, and to play some Mario Kart! (the only way to stay in control, is to lose control!) I also picked up a PlayStation 2 and 2x copies of Guitar Hero. So WATCH OUT. God that game is too good.

I'm going to sleep the good sleep tonight. If I'm lucky, I'll dream of Natasha Henstridge's boobies and not her as some Geiger tricked out monster who wants to kill me.