The Sand, The Sets, and The Stupidity

Yet again, too much going on in the past couple of weeks to write. Quick recap:

The Sand

So I finished up my week in Myrtle/Surfside Beach, mainly nursing my sunburn and attempting to lose less than ten golf balls per course. Neither was really successful. But, I still managed to get to a few of my favorite Myrtle Beach places.

This place is The Maze. Now, this place started off as a random tourist attraction a few years ago, but since has become a Reilly family proving ground for any newcomers to the family vacation. That means any new boyfriends/girlfriends/spouses must make their way through this exhausting wooden trap. I just do it for fun, but sometimes I wish I could just watch to see the new members of the family reach another dead end wondering if my family was worth this hassle.

No, that is not a giant condom on my head. or a thing for the KKK, although from the road it does look like a Klan Konvention. This is part of Rude Dick's, a restaurant that prides itself on bad service and insulting its customers. It also makes these hats that have a dumb joke to laugh at, especially when your Dad's hat says "Viagra makes my wrist hurt".

I finally started taking photos again! Really happy with how these two and the one up top turned out. The night one is at the Surfside Beach Pier, while the bottom one is a burger I ate that consisted of 2 burgers, two eggs, cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato, two grilled cheeses for buns, and two giant onion rings. Truly an American delicacy.

But now I'm back in...

NEW YORK

The Sets

The end of CollegeHumor's business quarter is coming up soon, so they have been working nonstop to create new sketches to impress the bosses. The picture above is from one of the funnier sketches I have been a part of, "The Greek System Bails Out Greece". Really funny sketch with some of the most entertaining actors I have ever met.
But, the bigger set I was a part of was "The Six Friends of Your Girlfriend". If you are unaware, CollegeHumor has an ongoing series called The Six, a super-stylized series that always shows six things that are common for people to run into. I don't give it the credit it deserves, because they actually are extremely well done and probably have some of the highest production value at CollegeHumor.
But, after a long week of sets, you have to celebrate the weekend with...

The Stupidity

This idiot. Again. We did some cool shit. Like an interactive mind-fuck of a play called Sleep No More.

Those guys in the masks? That is actually the audience, following around the actors through seven floors of 1930's Macbeth. Beyond creepy, but nevertheless breathtaking as a completely unique way of performing. I'm definitely going to it again before the summer ends.

Next, a little bit of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, a cool, young area that truly breeds one thing: hipsters. But good hipsters, like the ones that will offer you a cool new artist to listen to while telling you about the best hole-in-the-wall restaurants. Also, I got some flannel, if you couldn't tell from the pic above.

Also made it to the Gugenheim, which is a famous art museum along the Museum Mile. Cool, abstract art and a photographer who specialized in transition portraits really added to the feel of this architecturally beautiful building.

Finally, Alejandro and I made it to the king of the tourist attractions, The Statue of Liberty.

First off, I didn't plan wearing a shirt with the Statue already on it. Or having the New York state quarter, which also has the Statue on it, in my pocket. I felt idiotic. But whatever, still worth the trip. The Statue is surprisingly small compared to all the hype around it, but still worth it to see a symbol of America that has been around for over 125 years.

Oh, to complete the stupidity, Alejandro tried to have me call a coin flip and ended up spouting off this:

What a winner.