Day 6 - favorite super hero and why

I thought I'd get a head start on Day 6 since I know tomorrow will be crazy busy and I really cannot afford to procrastinate on my linguistics paper any more after today. My favorite is and always has Superman. My whole family has had a long-standing love affair with the Man of Steel - ever since I was little I can remember watching Christopher Reeves morph into a superhero with a single swipe of glasses from his chiseled face. We've made many a trip to the Superman Museum in Metropolis, IL, and I remember gazing with awe not only at the giant Superman statue out in front, but also at all the wonderful memorabilia collected inside, especially from the movies and TV shows. We loved "The New Adventures of Lois and Clark" in its time, but no TV memory holds stronger for me than the weekly ritual of "Smallville" in high school. We lived for that show every week, waiting with baited breath until we could belt out "Somebody saaaaaaavvvveeeeee mmmmmeeeeee!" in glorious cacophony together. Of course, since the Tom Welling version of Clark Kent started high school (hah - when he was 20-something) in the same year as I did, I felt a special connection to him and particularly Lana Lang, who Mom always claimed reminded her of me. I seriously took all of my fashion sense from Kristen Kreuk in high school...Andrew and I recently started watching the early episodes on DVD, and he takes great pleasure in pointing out the hairstyles and accessories that I used to emulate.

I'm not sure why Superman has always been so attractive to me...the premise is full of holes, to say the least. I mean, seriously - glasses and a hair part? That's your disguise? But maybe it is this willing suspension of disbelief that I love so much...that, and the fact that Superman will always stand for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. You just can't beat that. Plus, Tom Welling. Superhot.