Ireland 2016

[Greg]

How about a video? No butts were harmed in the making of this video.

[Drunk Monk]

Not yakety sax?

[Drunk Monk]

I've been invited to a set visit for Into the Badlands.  They are filming just outside of Dublin.  They are paying for travel, food and lodging for three days.  I'm planning to extend my trip as I have some vacation days I must burn and I've never been to Dublin.  The Guinness Storehouse is one of my bucket-list pilgrimages, as is the Hill of TARA.  

I leave next week.  We are trying to sort out having my family follow for T-Day vacation.  

I AM OFFICIALLY FREAKING OUT NOW.  

[cranefly]

Wow.

Just "Wow."

[Greg]

I think you need to get them to spring for a photographer as well.

Good luck. Have fun. I don't need the cool photo from you once you get in the Storehouse.

What hotel are you staying in? Where is the shooting location?

Maybe I should continue this via email . . . .

[Drunk Monk]

Honestly, I have no idea.  They approached me about this a month ago and I told them, sure, I'd love to go but my company won't fund the trip with our 25th coming up this year.  Then they came back and asked if I was available if they paid, to which I said 'yes' of course.  I should know more soon...especially since I leave next Monday.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

We're all coming with you. We're not coming back.

[Drunk Monk]

...wish I could afford a longer stay...like four years.  Frankly, I can't really afford this trip.  That's what credit cards are for.

[Greg]

I've actually looked into living in Ireland. You have to show you have an income of $50k a year per spouse.

[Drunk Monk]

It doesn't matter.  I can't afford a single spouse at that rate.  

[Greg]

Don't get me started. I have work to do.

[Drunk Monk]

okay, well I've just signed a $1m NDA, so I won't be able to share the set visit stuff until after MAR 9. I have a hunch what this might be about.

[Drunk Monk]

I am shamefully underexposed to Irish Lit.  KB gifted me Ulysses many many years ago, but I never got far in it.  I thought about bringing it along for the plane ride, but it's too damn thick, a clothbound edition.  And it would be weird to read that as I read the Don Quixote KB gifted me with my Spain trip.  KB just prognosticated my 2016 Euro trips - and that must have been 30 years ago or so.  

Greg made some recommendations.  Stacy went out and got a bunch of books with a store credit she had - travel, some JJ, some Yeats.  I think I'm going to take JJ's Portrait along for the flight.

[Greg]

I hear Ulysses is a tough read. How about Trinity, by Uris? Or Portrait of an Artist by Joyce which is supposed to be easier to read.

Twice I have mistakenly ended up in Dublin on Bloom's day. it was odd. Although taking the Ulysses tour of Dublin is quite the thing.

Everyone is underexposed to Irish Lit. But you have read Gulliver's Travels, right?

[Drunk Monk]

Or Portrait of an Artist by Joyce which is supposed to be easier to read.

That's what I meant by Portrait by JJ.  I'm reading that.

Although taking the Ulysses tour of Dublin is quite the thing.

Good tip.  Although I wonder if it would be worth it having not read it.

Everyone is underexposed to Irish Lit. But you have read Gulliver's Travels, right?

YES!  Loved that.  Didn't realize that was Irish.  I also read Stoker's Dracula but that was so long ago.  And I gifted Tara Le Fanu's Carmilla as she was into the web series - that's short but she loaned it out to her bf, so I may read it upon my return.