{"id":1814,"date":"2003-10-05T06:47:42","date_gmt":"2003-10-05T20:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/05\/advice-for-clubbers-and-bouncers\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:24:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:24:32","slug":"advice-for-clubbers-and-bouncers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/05\/advice-for-clubbers-and-bouncers\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice for clubbers and bouncers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7324,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/users\\\/ogremarco&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6417,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.vogueseattle.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13174,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/users\\\/ogremarco\\\/206541.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13175,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/users\\\/ogremarco\\\/205625.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Having DJ&#8217;d for around eight years in Anchorage, and having been a clubgoer for many years both before and after my DJ years, I&#8217;ve worked with and seen a lot of both really good, and really bad people. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/ogremarco\" title=\"Captain Plunderfucker's journal\">Ogre<\/a>, the doorman at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogueseattle.com\/\" title=\"The Vogue\">the Vogue<\/a>, is <em>definitely<\/em> one of the good ones. He&#8217;s just put up two posts that I loved.<\/p>\n<p>First off, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/ogremarco\/206541.html\" title=\"Some thoughts about my job\">what he looks for when hiring bouncers<\/a> (which also explains much of why I&#8217;ve found him to be one of the best bouncers I&#8217;ve met):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I have some hard and fast criteria for the bouncers I hire. Right off the bat i have the three rules:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Talk some serious shit. I&#8217;d rather you never even touch the person you&#8217;re throwing out. This requires a quick wit, an even temper, and a good understanding of how to read people. I had one bouncer who could get people to leave by saying &#8220;Leave.&#8221; and then staring at them and not saying anything, so it&#8217;s not just what you say.\n<p>  And secondly, some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/ogremarco\/205625.html\" title=\"A few messages to some generic customer types\">generic advice for clubgoers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Drunk normal guys looking to score with hot death chicks with no frame of reference:\\<br \/>\n    You suck and should be bludgeoned to death with a street sign.<\/p>\n<p>    Metal guys who think that a fishnet shirt will make them goth: Most of us think you&#8217;re an assclown.\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Much more on each of those links, of course.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having DJ&#8217;d for around eight years in Anchorage, and having been a clubgoer for many years both before and after my DJ years, I&#8217;ve worked with and seen a lot of both really good, and really bad people. Ogre, the doorman at the Vogue, is <em>definitely<\/em> one of the good ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","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=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}