Confirmation of Geek-dom

I cried watching Smallville last night. Granted I was exhausted and my hormones definitely are a little on the PMS-y side, but a cheesy superhero TV show shouldn't reduce me to headache inducing tears.

I suppose the fact that I was laughing the whole time I was crying says a lot about the kind of person I am.

Micro Evolution, The Process of

This is my dog Buckley and he is exceptional. Now I know that all dog owners are supposed to say that their dog is something special and wonderful, but Buckley really is. He will let you pick him up from his hind legs and he much give a grunt, but that is about it. Then when you put him down he'll give you a look of: "Why in the world did you feel the need to do that?"

Buckley possesses a near human character. I attribute this development to what I call his "Knob of Knowledge". On the top of Buckley's skull he has a protrusion which makes a lovely lump (highlighted by the red arrow). I am more than certain that this bump has given him just enough cranial capacity to surpass most other dogs in terms of sensitivity and human emotions.

Yes. The Knob of Knowledge makes Professor William F. Buckley You'resuchagoodboy (his full name) pure bred American dog (mutt) superior to most of his canine counterparts.

You know. Sometimes even I can't tell when I am joking.

Why so serious?

To continue with the superhero theme of my posting lately, I saw The Dark Night today as a birthday present from that man in my life (and of course he came, too). I am not going to part from what most people are saying in that it was a-freaking-mazing. As my friend Ben would put it - this film scored a Very Yes. However, I am going to say that I felt like a good part of soul had been sucked out by the end of it. The final product was similar to my emotional reaction after seeing Children of Men (I'm all about catharsis, but this is just ridiculous).

Christian Bale looked good without a shirt (as expected), Michael Caine wins awards for possibly being the coolest person on the face of the planet, and I liked Maggie Gyllenhaal just fine as a replacement for Katie Holmes.

Now my obligatory Heath Ledger comment. Yes. He was fantastic. Yes. I think he deserves some sort of award for his performance (not just because he's dead, but because he kicked some serious bat-butt). However - I think that his makeup artist deserves just as many awards because, seriously, his makeup was flawless. Actually - it was full of flaws, but that is what makes it so hard to achieve. That perfect balance between purposefully smeared and looks like it has actually worn off is hard to achieve. Whoever you are - you have my utmost respect.

Oh. And the random Cillian Murphy moment... what was that?

It's a bird! It's a plane! ...

So I have achieved new levels of geek status. On Saturday I became the proud owner of the first four seasons of Smallville. As if this wasn't enough to secure my geek-dom, I bought them for about 40% of their retail price off of a deal I found on Craigslist (not just for creepers anymore).

Now. I know that Smallville isn't exactly the best of television, but I absolutely love this show. I love the characters. I love the cheesy special effects (a car blows up or crashes nearly every episode). I love the fact that everyone in the cast is unreasonably beautiful.

I'm sure that some psychologists would tie my undying love of this show to my childhood obsession with Superman (hey. even I might tie it to that) but regardless of why I love this show despite its many shortcomings, I do. I like knowing that the bad guy always loses. I like that it is set in Kansas. I like that the people, despite being ridiculously good looking, have problems and issues in their lives.

I just love this show.

So don't call me for awhile. I intend to hide myself away with my obsession until I am ready to go buy season five.

Survey says...!

On a scale from one to one hundred (using the average scoring method of one equaling infinitesimal and one hundred being epic) how tragic would it be if the following happened to you:

1.) Your computer crashed and you lost all of your files.
2.) You were in a car accident. Your car is totalled, but you are completely fine.
3.) You had a dream in which you were obsessed with the Jonas Brothers.

Take your time. Think it over. I know what my answers would be.