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Author Topic: Your Job: The Movie  (Read 178159 times)

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2640 on: April 30, 2013, 02:34:34 PM »

Or you can go to the hospital and get stitches so your wounds heal properly, because fuck that guy.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2641 on: April 30, 2013, 02:36:02 PM »

I'm pretty sure we all know I was being sarcastic to highlight the stupidity of the co-worker, right?
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2642 on: April 30, 2013, 02:41:10 PM »

FWIW, I actually wasn't sure either. I mean, I was like 60% sure you were being sarcastic, but it was a "I... I think he's being sarcastic? Right?" kind of sure.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2643 on: April 30, 2013, 02:49:08 PM »

I have a nasty scar on my middle finger on my left hand and have permanent nerve damage from having to duct tape my hand together after smashing it with the metal front door on the way out of the house for work at a point in my life when I had to decide between eating and going to the doctor on a work day. Moreover my mom is alive because of medical treatment over the span of 10 years. Trust me when I say that if you can go to the doctor to get medical treatment, I believe you should.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2644 on: April 30, 2013, 03:52:24 PM »

You know what I'd do.

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2645 on: April 30, 2013, 04:28:34 PM »

He could get like a mini chainsaw attached to the tip of the finger. Then when another co-worker suggest you ignore the extreme pain and disfigurement, he could just gouge him in the eye with it.

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2646 on: April 30, 2013, 04:29:30 PM »

"Well, I would have, but it was your mom's favorite finger."
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2647 on: April 30, 2013, 04:32:47 PM »

He could get like a mini chainsaw attached to the tip of the finger. Then when another co-worker suggest you ignore the extreme pain and disfigurement, he could just gouge him in the eye with it.

Hold the line.  Hey, Tim, I just had the best idea for a movie!
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2648 on: May 01, 2013, 11:26:04 AM »

More fun today. Nothing too bad, I just went to a warehouse to help prepare for two events: one for the NRA, and one for Glenn Beck.

Living in Texas is magical.

EDIT: oh hey I just saw those very conventions on the national morning news.

mother fucker.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2649 on: May 02, 2013, 03:10:54 PM »

Interviews! I have one tomorrow at a local private university, and one on Tuesday at a startup that makes educational software. The university job is a contract-to-hire position, and pays a bit more, but the startup job is a straight hire. So we'll see how things go!
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2650 on: May 10, 2013, 02:52:15 PM »

I got the university job! I'll be a project manager in their IT department. I start on the 20th. So...I guess I'll get a couple week's worth of unemployment, right? Is that how it works?
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2651 on: May 16, 2013, 10:37:44 AM »

I feel like I've reached a point where I'm actually sickened by, rather than proud of, any personal display of actual competence.  There's an omnipresent* voice in my head now screaming "Stop that, you idiot, they'll just make you do more work!"

* At this exact point while typing this out a manager from some other department showed up at my desk and asked me to demo some airside software to a customer despite the fact that I am not a customer rep and do not work on airside software.  I'm just the de facto guy for this now because literally every other person involved would rather sit and bullshit than get it done.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2652 on: May 16, 2013, 01:45:06 PM »

I met Kevin Smith today, and my general like of his work mixed with my desire to hit him for batman's year-one-urine-retcon turned into a really weird neutrality.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2653 on: May 18, 2013, 12:51:23 AM »

Good thing you never read the Spider-Man/Black Cat story he wrote. Then the neutrality would have been lost and you definitely would have hit him.

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2654 on: May 18, 2013, 03:54:40 AM »

Yeah, I was gonna say, the peeing-his-pants thing is annoying but it's not even the worst thing Smith wrote in that miniseries; I'd have to go with the ending for that "honor".

Spider-Man/Black Cat was horrifying.  I mean, legitimately disturbing in the same way that Neonomicon was legitimately disturbing, but without Neonomicon's big ideas and structural cleverness.

And speaking of Alan Moore, Moore himself has pointed out how terrible it was when Kevin Smith brought back Stanley of Stanley and his Monster as a child-sacrificing Satanist.  I like to imagine Kevin Smith's reaction on reading that.  "Alan Moore read one of my comics! :8D: ...and says I'm everything that's wrong with comics. :oh:"

I still like Kevin Smith.  He's great at writing banter, and characters who seem like real people (for definitions of "real people" where everybody talks exactly like Kevin Smith).  He's a FANTASTIC raconteur and the true stories he tells are genuine and heartfelt; the one about Jay's years of addiction, in particular, was possibly the most affecting thing I've ever read on a blog.

And I think that speaks a lot to his weaknesses as well as his strengths.  He's a great example of the "write what you know" cliche -- when he's writing about overgrown man-children arguing about Star Wars or comic books, he's hard to beat.  But put him into something action- or story-driven and he flounders.

I'm probably the same way.  I picture the kind of comic book I would write, given the opportunity, and I come up with something that looks a lot like American Splendor (in fact, I've got a script around here somewhere called Thad Goes to the ER which I wrote for my uncle to draw -- maybe we'll get around to that someday).  I like to read about capes and tights, but my storytelling strengths lie in, as I believe Kazz once put it, "some zany anecdote about back home".

It's not that he's INHERENTLY bad at the shared-superhero-universe stuff -- I actually thought his Green Arrow run was great right up until that Stanley and his Monster nonsense.

Also, I've got a copy of Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters & Marvels sitting on my desk still in its shrink wrap; my wife bought it at the dollar store, mostly as a joke.  And this brings up another of those things about Smith that grates on me: his total, unquestioning belief in Stan Lee's string of "How I Created Everything All By Myself and Am Great" tall tales.  (Hey, that was another Alan Moore reference.)

Exhibit A is, of course, Mallrats.  For another example, check out this article from ComicsAlliance featuring a 1998 Wizard article where Smith says he never really got why people like Jack Kirby so much.

(And I seldom say this, but scroll down to the comments section, where Jimmy Palmiotti explains that after the interview he convinced Kevin Smith of the error of his ways.)

Anyway.  All this to say, I still like Kevin Smith, and most of his movies, and...about half of his comics?  I'm trying to do the math here.  Four Clerks comics, four Jay and Silent Bob comics, a Bluntman and Chronic OGN that's structured like it's four individual issues, the first ten issues of Green Arrow, about half of Cacophony...?  You know, when I start actually listing them out, he's got a better batting average than I would have thought, though his good comics are definitely tilted toward his creator-owned movie universe stuff.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2655 on: May 18, 2013, 04:52:18 AM »

So basically he writes terrible comics but writes good comics about comics.

Something something RPG about RPG players.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2656 on: May 18, 2013, 05:03:07 AM »

He did also manage to put a great name on one of the universe's lamest villains.

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2657 on: May 20, 2013, 12:41:47 PM »

Working at a university is a bit weird. This is about what I felt like going to get a coffee at the campus cafe:

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2658 on: May 20, 2013, 01:43:50 PM »

They can smell your fear.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2659 on: May 20, 2013, 04:21:13 PM »

Ran into a friend from college at work today.  I knew she worked for the company but didn't realize we worked at the same location.  (Last I talked to her she was at the Scottsdale one.)  So that's one lady from high school and another from college.  Small world.

(And, paradoxically, big building; today's the first time I've ever actually seen either one of them there in the six weeks I've been working there.)
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