I was really hoping the Caps could go all the way this year, but artist Aleksandr Reut has jinxed them into a literal oblivion with Washington Capitals — We are the Champions!, a 40″ x 32″ oil painting on canvas that may or may not serve as the cover to an NHL Choose Your Own Adventure Book reading “the Caps have died, the end” on every page. The painting is currently available on eBay with a starting bid of $5,000, so if you’re a Good Samaritan type with five grand to spare, please buy this, put it in a trashcan and dropkick it into the f**king sun.

Here’s a better look at the painting. On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, Alex Ovechkin sat on a throne of blood! What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of evil! Sidney Crosby is like the buzzing of flies to him!

My favorite part is either Bruce Boudreau as a hobbit/Gandalf ultimate mash-up or Barack Obama off in the background dressed like a pilgrim. I also love how the artist only has those 65 x 85 Yahoo Sports player photos for reference, so no matter what he paints the players are always looking directly at you.

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A lot of people are pretty sure that the woman in this image on the left is the same as the woman on the right, but I’m not sure that I buy it. For one thing, I don’t know how Tebow’s original “girlfriend” could get by without the “support” required for those “enormous cans.” But the faces look very similar. I can’t tell. Peruse the evidence for yourselves. Go ahead, I’ll wait. –FanIQ, via Neyrot [NSFW]. As also seen on Tim Teblog

I believe it was the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu that coined the expression, “From doing one thing well, do many things well.” What he meant was that one should take the discipline, passion and craftsmanship one utilizes in his primary trade and apply that to other areas of one’s life. I’m pretty sure he didn’t mean painting art, jogging on a treadmill, and playing ping-pong all at the same time. Or maybe he did. Those Chinese are a wacky bunch.

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