Smallville

12:25 a.m.

Today I moved big slabs of concrete around for my grandma. Apparently a friend of hers had some - big concrete slabs, I mean - and my grandma couldn't resist taking them, what with all the uses big concrete slabs present on a daily basis. I had to go get these things from her friend's house and haul them out into the deep boonies - out by Lake Palestine, which, if you live in Tyler, you'll realize is kind of out there. From there I had to haul them down and dump them in strategic places in her backyard.

I inquired what all the concrete was for. I mean, that just seems like a logical questions. Her reply was priceless: "I don't know yet."

What the....obviously you must have an idea, otherwise you wouldn't be so specific about where I need to put each and every one of these 100+ pound slabs (I came to the conclusion that they had to weigh more than 100 pounds because I had to move a few 80 pound bags of concrete powder too, and these slabs definitely weighed more), so let's stop being coy and tell me, because if I'm going to break my back I should at least know what I'm doing it for.

The back of my neck wasn't thanking me for the sunlight abuse I was treating it too, as well.

Since she had completely missed my birthday my grandma told me that I could have any one of the "paintings that are just sitting in her studio and probably won't get hung up" so I couldn't really be too annoyed at the work when I realized I was going to walk home with a piece of art for little more than a song and back-breaking physical labor. She even had the perfect painting for me, too. It was buried under a bunch of larger paintings of countryside landscapes and ramshackle huts (she does so love to paint a good old fashioned ramshackle hut), but it was worth the dig - it was a still life of a violin and some other knick-knacks on a table. I'm a sucker for knick-knack still life paintings, I have to admit.

I'm starting to enjoy this Smallville show. I had never really watched it too much in the beginning because I've honestly never been much of a Superman fan, but I'm quickly realizing that there's more to this show than just a superhero license. It's another low-budget Buffy the Vampire Slayer sort of show, but unlike other wannabes, this one has succeeded in actually catching my attention. It has interesting characters (with the exception of Clark Kent himself, who is so bland that I want to hit him with a Kryptonite stick until he shows some genuine emotion that isn't some kind of hurt puppy-dog look), the dialogue is actually intelligent for a show of this caliber, and the cute girls definitely don't hurt.

And Lex Lutor is so cool it makes you hurt. He is by and far my favorite character so far. If I thought I could gain one tenth the coolness of Lex by shaving my head, I'd do it right now. But alas, I'm all too aware that my baldness wouldn't enhance a damn thing about myself except maybe my odd-shaped head.

This is me as Lex Luthor:

And this is me as Clark Kent:

The difference is very, very clear. Clark Kent is a whiny little bitch. Lex Luthor is an introspective and cool individual.

Clark Kent totally deserves this Lana girl, because she's every bit as boring and sad as he is, except she doesn't have superpowers to balance it out. Chloe is both hotter and cooler in terms of personality - she works for the newspaper Lana. She's a journalism geek. She's better than you and I predict she's going to end up with Clark later on as this series progresses just because you're too dumb to realize when you could be riding on some super-cock instead of serving coffee to high-schoolers who talk incessantly about whatever melodrama they're currently engaged in. And then, you know what? Chloe is going to dump him. After using him to satisfy her super-needs. And then Clark is going to cry and ruin his favorite blue tights.

Ha ha ha ha! I think I may have written the best show ever. Only thing that could make it better is if Lex Luthor walks in on Clark crying into his tights and calls him a pussy.

*writes that in* Genius.

Anyway, my point is that I am enjoying Smallville. Thanks for listening.

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