Waiting for Superpowers

Well, my physical therapist hit the wrong button on his machine (the "H-Wave") or it was in fact, as he said, shorted out that day (though not on the day his supervisor was using it, a week later), and I got the full voltage. Into nodes on my back. Very bad. I told him later after I calmed down from screaming that maybe he'd cured my depression. He didn't get the joke.

Anyway, I think I'm entitled to get a superpower from the experience. X-ray vision at least. But it's been almost two weeks and NOTHING. No super nothing. I've been revisiting that question posed on This American Life-- inivisibility or the power to fly?-- and I just keep thinking Wonder Woman had it the best. An invisible plane.

Due to this tendonitis I've been trying to stay off the computer, but I had to blog today because I found a note intended to inform a blog I think I wrote a few years ago, about supervillains. Make of it what you will. The question apparently was: is George W. Bush a supervillain, or just a bad president?


Here are my notes:

Is G.W. a supervillain--

1. mask
no

2. armor
Dick Army

3. cape
no

4. refers to self in 3rd p.
probably

5. has own country
yes

6. style
not really

7. despair
yes, helpless-seeming

8. fallability
yes

9. ignorance
yes

10. degree
yes [he did finish college eventually, yes?]

11. adaptable
no

12.
creative
no

13. delusions
yes

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That's a -- let's see-- 8 out of 13! Good for you George, you're almost a supervillain! In particular I think you need to get some style and a cape.