{"id":1620,"date":"2003-08-16T20:25:28","date_gmt":"2003-08-17T10:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/17\/oh-go-ahead-and-point-its-okay\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T14:02:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:02:33","slug":"oh-go-ahead-and-point-its-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/16\/oh-go-ahead-and-point-its-okay\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, go ahead and point, it&#039;s okay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>Much as I enjoy the Vogue, it does have one definite downside &#8212; there is very little ventilation in the club, so it gets incredibly hot on summer nights. Thankfully, the Vogue has a fairly relaxed dress code, so it&#8217;s not at all uncommon for people to lose articles of clothing as the night goes on (so maybe it&#8217;s not that much of a downside after all&#8230;). When this happens, it&#8217;s not at all uncommon to get some odd looks from the &#8220;straights&#8221; (non-regulars) that are at the club, as in many normal clubs, you&#8217;d get kicked out for doffing your shirt midway through the night, so getting the occasional surprised look or getting pointed at is something that I&#8217;m fairly used to.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I&#8217;d taken my shirt off during one of the songs, and once the song was done went outside to get a breath of air. As I walked out, I noticed a couple girls out of the corner of my eye, one of whom was doing a fairly obvious &#8220;oh-there-he-is-look-wait-don&#8217;t-make-it-obvious&#8221; motion to her friend. Being used to this, and rather amused that I&#8217;d caught her, I turned around with a grin and told them, &#8220;Oh, go ahead and point, it&#8217;s okay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What I wasn&#8217;t expecting was to have the girl laugh, then say, &#8220;No, no, wait &#8212; you&#8217;re from Alaska, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Um&#8230;yeah&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re DJ Woody, aren&#8217;t you? From Gig&#8217;s? And that little place up above Chuck-E-Cheese?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Holy shit! Yes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew it! I <em>told<\/em> you it was him! We used to go see you spin at Gig&#8217;s when we were 14 and 15!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just incredible. Shannon and (oh, lord, I hate being brainless&#8230;Jen?) had been club kids back in Anchorage when I was working at Gig&#8217;s, and then later at the Eclipse. They&#8217;d seen me dancing and thought they recognized me, but since I&#8217;ve shaved my head since they&#8217;d seen me last, they weren&#8217;t sure. It wasn&#8217;t until I went outside without my shirt and they saw my tattoo that they were fairly sure, and Jen tried to point me out to Shannon. Apparently they&#8217;re both fairly recent escapees (Jen&#8217;s been here for about five months, Shannon for about one), and are living down in Tacoma.<\/p>\n<p>Too freaking cool. We spent a good amount of time talking outside the club and catching up, I met their friends Kate and (again&#8230;Beth?), and then once the club closed, they headed off for breakfast and I came home. They said they should be back at the Vogue at some point, though, so I should get a chance to run into them again. All sorts of cool.<\/p>\n<p>I love it when stuff like this happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I walked out, I noticed a couple girls out of the corner of my eye, one of whom was doing a fairly obvious &#8216;oh-there-he-is-look-wait-don&#8217;t-make-it-obvious&#8217; motion to her friend. Being used to this, and rather amused that I&#8217;d caught her, I turned around with a grin and told them, &#8216;Oh, go ahead and point, it&#8217;s okay.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2045,2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-djwudi","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}