Everything I know about Italian Renaissance artists, I learned from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Leonardo leads, Donatello does machines. Raphael is cool but rude. Michaelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel and sculpted David, but above all else, he was a party dude.
But they can all learn something from the brilliant if troubled grocery store clerk who took cases and cases of soda and turned them into this brilliant work of art.
This is the coolest thing ever made.
A tip o’ the fez goes to FileFront.com, whence this image came. This is awesome on a number of levels..
1. Mario rules.
2. Soda could not exist without video games, and vice versa, so their marriage here is a profound statement.
3. How the fuck did this get made? I want the boss who said, “yeah, you can spend three hours on the clock dicking around with the soda. Just don’t make a statue of Jar Jar Binks.”
In the wake of the Steven Slater fracas, we asked our writers to chime in on the first roundtable topic in quite some time: What’s the manliest way to quit your job?
JasonB
As much as I love the “Blaze of Glory” idea, I think the manliest way to quit your job is straight up. A professional resignation, without finger pointing or bitching. A simple two week’s notice, active handoff of your current assignments and projects, and a drama free adieu. Especially as you climb a corporate ladder, your personal network really matters more and more, and bridges can accidentally be burned in the least likely places. Don’t screw over your coworkers or your boss, no matter if he is a complete dick and totally deserves it. Walk out on the high road, and you’ll sleep better at night.
Megan While JasonB’s response is professional and most likely the “best” answer, there comes a time when we must stand up for ourselves and just, well, raise our fists against the man…like so:
As Homer Simpson has proven time and time again, it is possible to be forgiven for just about anything, so go ahead, quit with gusto!
theworldofdale
I’m going to agree with Megan in that there are cases where a dignified exit is appropriate. But our good Editor did not choose his staff based on their dignity. In fact, just the opposite. While I could do without his pasty, hairy chest, this guy gets points for creativity and cajones. And he never says a word.
Some bridges are better off burned.
That Guy Named Ed
I always admired the General Manager’s bathroom. Everyone in the trenches had to slum it. But the GM had wallpaper, soothing music, and even a little couch in their bathroom. It seemed unnecessarily gilded considering how cash strapped the company was..
The janitors usually did a bang-up job of locking the GM’s bathroom after cleaning at night, but now and then, they’d forget. And boy, did I roll sevens on my last day. After having a few “happy trails” drinks with some coworkers at the bar next door, I was primed. I snuck back into the office. The GM’s bathroom door: unlocked. My digestive tract: yearning for relief. I absolutely wrecked that toilet and did not flush. It was a Friday night. The cleaning crew didn’t work on the weekend. I’ll always wonder how the GM reacted after my going away present had been left to fester until Monday morning…
maoglone
Of course, JasonB’s “Civilized” and “Professional” job-quitting is probably how I’d handle things in real life, and in a real-world situation, that’s actually what’s manliest. But in fantasy muscle world? Quitting your job would look like this:
Here’s this week’s CotW, which comes from classicgrrl re: this post about OSU:
Thankful to not be living in Columbus anymore. It’s not a bad town, I just cannot stand their University. If you think reading an article is bad, try living there and being forced to breathe this nonsense on a day in, day out basis.
signed,
burned out on the Buckeyes
Thanks, there. We’ll put you in the hopper for the drawing in a couple/few weeks. BOOM.
It’s pretty much impossible for us to end the Comedy MVP series without a look at who could be the 2010 Comedy MVP, right? Yeah, I know the year’s not quite over yet. It’s been hotter than shit though, and I’m pretty much shutting my brain down for the rest of the year–more news on that in a few weeks. At any rate, here are our nominations for 2010 MVP.
David Cross: Bigger and Blackerer. He’s one of the bigger names going right now–still running on the power of Mr. Show and a lil’ show called Arrested Development. As for MVP status, Cross is probably something of a dark horse this year. Nonetheless…
Louis CK: Dude’s starting to hit it out of the park. Over the last couple years, he’s begun to reach his peak–and it’s pretty awesome to watch a comedian of his caliber at his peak. Louie, 30 Rock, and some of the best stand-up going.
Marc Maron: Maron’s a road dog who’s been around for a long time. He does the WTF podcast–where he talks to other comedians he’s known over the years and somehow, he’s slighted just about every one of them in the past, which makes for some of the best listening you’ll come across. Too, they talk comedy shop, which is a really nice look into the ins and outs of the craft of stand-up comedy. But that’s not the point: Marc Maron is fucking funny on just about every level and is pretty damned versatile. Must-watch.
Aaaaand here we are at the almost-current of the Comedy MVP what-have-you. Ready? Go!
2005: Comedians of Comedy, Louis CK: Patton Oswalt put together the Comedians of Comedy tour and it saw release in 2005. We’re talking about a semi-rotating cast of BRILLIANT comics. If you missed this, you missed a lot. Also, Louis CK is awesomer than you think he is.
2006: Sacha Baron Cohen: Borat. Yep.
2007: Zach Galifianakis: Live at the Purple Onion might be one of the best stand-up dvds of the decade. Wow.
2008: Tina Fey, Doug Stanhope: I originally had Tina Fey a bit earlier, but I’d discounted the power of the whole Sarah Palin thing on SNL, which was pretty impressive. Speaking of Sarah Palin, Doug Stanhope almost sorta kinda ran for President in 2008, and would have maybe gotten a quarter of a percent.
2009: Greg Giraldo: Midlife Vices came out in 2009. It is awesome. If you don’t know Greg Giraldo, you’ll probably recognize him as the guy who goes up first at every single Comedy Central roast–which sets the bar pretty damn high for Jeffery Ross. Blecch.
We’ll be back tomorrow with our nominations for the 2010 Comedy MVP. Get ready, chumps.
Of course, I was only half-relieved to find out that they weren’t going to open a water-filled hatch at the amusement park, but rather, it appears they’re going to figuratively flood Kings Island with a “Friends of Liberty Day.” Because nothing says “Liberty” like waiting in line for two hours to ride a roller coaster.
At this point, these Tea Party dudes (and ladies, I guess) have to be worrisome for the Republican Party, don’t they? I’m not particularly into politics, personally, so it could be that I’m getting things mixed up. However, it seems like everything these folks touch turns into a perverted version of itself and that at the end of the day, they just end up looking like racist, jingoistic scumbags who simply don’t want to pay taxes and don’t understand what the implications of these things are. Unless that’s part of the GOP’s grand scheme, getting associated with ‘em can’t be a good thing.
Granted, that might be a bit of an oversimplification, but I feel like I’m close.
I guess, though, if you’ve got a burning problem with people from Central America, people from the Middle East, paying for education and roads, then you might be a friend of liberty. It’s happening on September 4, and I have a feeling there’ll be some awesome protesters there.
Anyone think this warrants a boycott of Kings Island? I haven’t been in over fifteen years, so I’m doing my part.
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