metard MIA

Yeah, luckily, I work for more of a third party company. We do a ton of different things, but set design and movie props are a big part of it. I work with the directors and set people that come here from LA. They really don't even let our crews get on set too much. They have teamsters and unions and big budgets. But I certainly won't miss hearing WTF Channing Tatum "has to have" for his scene. But on our side, it's all honest, hard working people. Talented artists and designers. We are lucky to sit outside of the hollywood bubble. The crews up in Wilmington have to deal with the unions and the teamsters. I always say, sorry you guys had to come all the way down here and they laugh. We are union bro. We don't give a fu**....

Definitely a stressful business though. I don't think people realize how many "no bodies" it really takes to get a major motion picture up and running..... Its a lot of people. thousands. It's a pretty big waste of cash, but hey, america buys into it every time.

 

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^^^

We do work in VA too (based on events in Missouri in this particular case)

 

I don't see the sunilarity in all this... What about Tard!

Zach we will miss all your input!!

 

So much for economizing on the word count.

 

I put these up every where to help find him! Wait that's not Metard

 

Oh yeah, congrats Zach and good luck with whatever choice you make!!

 

Slide on synergistically.

 

congrats man. love hearing about stuff like this! most people will never encounter this type of intersection in there lives. You can't go wrong, it seems no matter which way you go... life gets better!

 

Shelter Cove or the one with the light house?

Either way, its a very aesthetically pleasing island. The town planners, to their credit, did a decent job of ensuring an abundance of trees and greenery to shadow the massive influx of strip malls and industry.

Sunny Daze is gone and there are no "core" surf shops that I know of on the island. There is a surf shop with one board hanging from the ceiling and selling mostly sandals, glasses, and clothing.

I go back periodically. My dad has a condo in Shelter Cove and I have been back a few times but wow has it changed. What amazed me was that massive grocery store chain (Krogers?) that took the place of Piggly Wiggly---pick your 6 beer selection that had at least 100 good beers, and the freshest seafood you'll get from a chain grocery I've ever had! And food was so cheap!

We used to stay in a condo in the Dunes in the early 90s when I was a kiddo. I spent my summer vacas skating the yellow curbs of the Hyatt parking garage (to get out of the sun) on flat days, sponging when it wasnt (tried and failed hustling the old man to get a 6'6" monster into or on top of the family station wagon), and chasing girls on the beach at night.

Fond memories of the island. I will have to eat at your place if/when I go back.

Oh, and something Metard related: where is his icon from? I suspect I am mildly autistic in that I get 7 second song loops stuck in my head for days, and sometimes I actually get his icon stuck in my head.

 

that about sums up my life on the island but it has changed since the 90s big time im trying to relocate fastly with in the next year. the island used to be more untouched and there was way less people.

 

i heard metard got fired from the waffle house and is now a raging meth addict

 

Suniliarity. Can someone please add this to the glossary? I'm not on computer.

 

Tard!!! What happened!! Where are you?!?!!

 

OK does anyone know the skate dude that had 10 years on me (must be mid-to-late 40s now) that worked at piggly wigglys who was missing a tooth or two and asked me, at 14, to go picking mushrooms with him inland in the middle of the night?!?!?

Man HHI has changed quite a bit. What has improved: the chicas in the Palmetto Dunes general store in the back serving lunch. Drop some espanol and they love gringo attention! Portions tripled.

What I could not believe was the drive into the island. It used to be effin bayou swamp squeel-like-a-pig rural from I-95 to the HHI bridge. We used to buy peaches off of this shanty shack on the way into town. Peaches the size of softballs. Well that place got bought out by 1000000 chain stores, 70 golf courses, etc. I did not recognize the approach at all.

Sandblasters where did you live on the island?

 

had i violated parole thats what i would tell 'ya...