Why Spiderman is the coolest.

A few months ago, I started sporting a Spiderman watch to work. It started out as kind of a joke. I had left my regular watch behind at my mom's, so I just ran to WalMart and picked up the cheapest watch they had to offer. It was either Hello Kitty, Barbie, Spiderman, or WWE wrestling. Obviously, Spiderman wins this battle.
Since then, I've gotten a lot of comments at work on my watch. Ranging from the small children who think it is cool that I have a Spiderman watch (one little boy and I compared watches...he had one too) to the adults who ask if it belongs to my son (true story). My boss even likes to get it on it and give me crap. We were selling a Spiderman Easter basket at work, and he told me I should buy it. It's gone now though. Apparently some small child felt like they needed to have it.

So, here lately I've been trying to compile a list of reasons why Spiderman is the coolest superhero. Here's the top 3.

1. He's a little nerdy. Let's face it, Peter Parker is the nerd of the superhero group. Bruce Wayne is the rich, popular dude. Clark Kent is the smart, handsome guy. And Peter Parker is the nerd. Awesome.

2. He doesn't require anything fancy to use his powers. Batman has his fancy tool belt and Batmobile. Spiderman just has his spandex suit (makes his keester* look awfully nice) and his web-flinging wrists and sticky climbing fingers. Awesome times 2.

3. His photography. I think this is what I like about Peter Parker the most. He has a job as a photographer. Taking pictures of Spiderman. Which boils down to taking pictures of himself. Triple awesome.

Taylor's nephew and I share the same birthday. My goal is to eventually get him into Spiderman and Harry Potter so we can have fun themed birthday parties (last year we had a Cars themed party and the year before that it was Spongebob). I figure right now it will be easier to get him into Spiderman and then work up to Harry. Taylor told me he tried to get him to watch Spiderman on tv once and he called it "stupid". But then he got a Spiderman motorcycle toy thing for Easter, so it's all up in the air right now.


*Have you seen the interview Andrew Garfield did on Ellen?! If not, you should check it out. He talks about his "keester" in his Spidey suit.