JosephGiardina

I think Eddy Murphy could play any roll in ANY MOVIE! http://imgur.com/kb76X

This has been really fun but you guys haven't asked me any really juicy questions so I figure why not answer some questions you didn't ask. Like: what is something really embarrassing that happened to you while working as a cartoonist? WOW! what a great question.

I was working at CN on Foster's as a cleanup artist and it was around lunch time. I wasn't very hungry but thought if I walked down the street I would find some restaurant that peaked my interest. After all, It was lunch time and I had just purchased a brand new pair of $10 sunglasses the day before. Cheap sunglasses are the best kind of sunglasses if you ask me.

So I walked, down San Fernando in the heart of Downtown Burbank. I walked past lots of great places to eat but nothing got me hungry, so I walked into the mall and through the food court, still nothing seemed to appeal to me. I walked through the mall and out the other side. I continued down the road passing more and more restaurants. The sun was very bright that day and I thought to myself " Thank goodness I just purchased these fantastic new $10 sunglasses". At this point I was about half a mile from CN when it hit me. It started with a rumble in my belly but it wasn't hunger. No, I was about to poop.

I was about 100 feet from a McDonalds but I feared such a short distance wasn't going to be close enough. I clenched my butt cheeks and moved as fast as I could while walking on my heels trying not to let lose the monster poo. 30 feet, 20 feet, there was the door I could see it, 10 feet, just a few more steps. I made it in the door and scuttled like the penguin to the bathroom. I reached for the door to the men's room but it was locked. I couldn't wait any longer. I looked at the women's bathroom door and in that moment as I contemplated whether or not to use the women's room it happened. I pooped.

At 28 years old I pooped my pants standing in a Mc Donalds. It wasn't just a solid lump, no no no it was full on hotdog water. I did what anyone would do, I cleaned myself up the best I could in the sink of the women's room and then tossed my underwear in the trash. when I was as clean as I could possible be after such a thing I peaked my head out to see if anyone was waiting. Thank God nobody was there, so I ran out of there as fast as I could.

When I was in the clear, out on the sidewalk, I stopped running. As I walked back to CN with my head down, embarrassed of what had just happened, I heard a screech from behind me and a sharp scrape on the back of my head. I turned around in shock to see a giant black bird two inches from my face flapping its wings and screaming at me; SCREEE! SCREEE! I stumbled back and fell to the ground as I tried to defend myself from the bird. While on the ground it made one more attack and I swatted my arms and screamed "Get away from me you stupid bird!". It flew up into a tree and left me alone. I rolled over and got up on one knee, and as I looked down on the sidewalk I saw my brand new sunglasses. They had been crushed from the fall. My brand new $10 Sunglasses had been destroyed.

I walked back to CN, with my head down in disbelief. How could I go on working the rest of the day after such a fiasco. I contemplated making up some excuse to tell my producer but by the time I had gotten to his office door I hadn't come up with anything. So I just flat out said "Ryan, I just pooped my pants and then a bird attacked me... the fucker broke my sunglasses... can I go home?". He just said "yes." and he said it without a smile or smirk, no snicker or snear. In fact he said it without any emotion whatsoever.

sigh... hold on let me plug in my cintiq...

It took about 8 months from pitch to delivery for the 7 min short. I worked a normal 40hr work week through most of the 8 months.

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