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So I found out from Aaron (Mr. Dark) last night that the meat-head and stripper contingent that were thankfully missing from the last Sin City weren't there because they are boycotting the night. Why? Because they weren't allowed to jump the line after "having attended since the very first night". An interesting claim to make to one of the promoters. I checked back in the gallery, knowing that they first showed up the month before Jim posted the first pictures of them. That puts their first attendance at the 16th month Sin City was running. Even more amusing given how many people who have remarked on how pleasant their absence was, they feel that by their failing to show up the night fill fail, that their presence is what makes the event.

Not being above using my website to further my own interests, I have decided to play against their vanity and self-importance and "assist" their boycott by removing all the pictures of them. With any luck at all they will notice and it will strengthen their resolve not to show up anymore. One can only hope.

Date: 2004-07-12 06:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] opulence-9.livejournal.com
ooooooooooooh feeding soemone there own medicine - I like!

Date: 2004-07-12 06:22 pm (UTC)

Date: 2004-07-12 06:32 pm (UTC)

Date: 2004-07-12 07:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dream-king.livejournal.com
Speaking of first nights, is there a list anywhere of who was at the very first Sin City? I remeber, I was there, you, Trish, Mr. Dark and his lady, Reive, Nick and Sandi,.;. who else was there?

The best available list.

Date: 2004-07-12 08:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarrick.livejournal.com
There is no list, but looking back at the pictures I can verify that Graeme ([livejournal.com profile] g_ram), Lori ([livejournal.com profile] lori_monster), Chistine and Michael ([livejournal.com profile] strawberrygrl23 and [livejournal.com profile] saturn_13), Chris and Dave ([livejournal.com profile] sovietnimrod and his wife "Bug"), Elaine ([livejournal.com profile] valerian) and Seth ([livejournal.com profile] seth1334), Daevina and Isaac of course ([livejournal.com profile] lady_maleficent and [livejournal.com profile] cheekydevil), Jennifer was in the dungeon, Velvet Jenn ([livejournal.com profile] saturnina), Captain Ron ([livejournal.com profile] newbie604, someone named Dave ("DJ Blue"), Nancy ([livejournal.com profile] einspein), and Andra the stilt-dancer. There were, a few other people there that I don't recall, but there were only about 30 odd people there that first night and this has 24 of them accounted for. The meat-heads and strippers were most definitely *not* there and didn't start coming until well over a year later.

Re: The best available list.

Date: 2004-07-12 08:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] evilyn13.livejournal.com
I think if the strippers were there they would have been even more annoying, at least in a crowd of 300 people you don't see them as much.

Re: The best available list.

Date: 2004-07-12 08:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarrick.livejournal.com
Precisely. Around the time they did start coming there was much discussion about how lame it was. If I went back in my journal and/or e-mail to that time I could probably find some posts and comments about it.

Clearly I am a digital pack-rat.

Re: The best available list.

Date: 2004-07-12 09:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dream-king.livejournal.com
You say "pack rat",
I say "fun items to share for when one of us goes into politics".

Re: The best available list.

Date: 2004-07-13 01:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sovietnimrod.livejournal.com
Yeah, if Bug and I were there at that first night (which I believe we were), I certainly don't recall there being any strippers of any sorts.

Re: The best available list.

Date: 2004-07-13 01:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sovietnimrod.livejournal.com
OK I just checked my diary and I can confirm that we were indeed there for the grand opening on May 12, 2001. Bug, Lorimonster and myself met up with Saturn13 and Strawberry Girl at their apartment before all making our way there.

Re: The best available list.

Date: 2004-07-13 01:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cheekydevil.livejournal.com
30? I don't think so ... we didn't crack 200 - let alone 300 - for at least six or seven months, but it most certainly was over 100 the first time out ....

Re: The best available list.

Date: 2004-07-13 07:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarrick.livejournal.com
I stand corrected. Still that's about ΒΌ of the people attending the first night accounted for.

Re: The best available list.

Date: 2004-07-13 07:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kitsune-13.livejournal.com
we have only missed three Sin City's since it's inception:
1. On Honeymoon in Cuba
2. In Hospital with Appendicitus/post op from Surgery
3. Bronchil Pneumonia a few years ago.

I'm glad the fucking meat monkeys won't be coming back..who needs to be around certain assholes if you don't have to??

Date: 2004-07-13 01:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cheekydevil.livejournal.com
Well, I'm pretty sure I'd be included on that list.

Date: 2004-07-13 02:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cheekydevil.livejournal.com
Yeah, those guys are pretty funny. Typical bar stars who think they can push people around and that 'the bar belongs to them' for whatever reason. The one fella came up into the booth so many times and hassled me to play 'Fuck You Like An Animal' that it would get tense, fast, as he just wouldn't take anything other than instant compliance as an insult to his crowd, which the night apparently 'owed' big time for some reason.

They consistently tried to jump the line and cried bloody murder if we told 'em first come, first serve and explained that most of the people in line were long time regulars too. It was one of that group that picked one of the very few fights in the place with Richard on the dancefloor. They also would threaten to 'shut us down' if we didn't jump and escort them in past the line.

A couple of times we basically put them on probation and told them they weren't welcome back for a few months unless they smartened up, but otherwise if they behaved, we all just want to have fun here.

And this is just the shit you guys HEAR about. Sometimes I'm not sure people are aware of just how much pain-in-the-ass bullshit Aaron and I go through on an average Sin City .... we've got LOTS more stories just like this one.

Ahhh the Bar-star

Date: 2004-07-13 01:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mediavictim.livejournal.com
I have an idea about what happens when I don't like what is going on at SIN CITY ....I dont go. But the idea that you can 'boycot' an event means that you must have a REALLY high opinion of yourself.

You want to jump the line?
WORK THERE,
VOLUNTEER THERE
SPONSOR IT
BE IT'S OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER
SPIN MUSIC THERE
CREATE AN INSTALLATION

....unless you're one of the farm hands ...you're one of the cattle. Prize pigs eat from the same trough as the rest of the livestock.

Granted I have jumped lines before ..but only becasue I was friends with the bouncer. Mind you I also never go to bars with lines anymore anyway.

Re: Ahhh the Bar-star

Date: 2004-07-13 03:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarrick.livejournal.com
This is how people turn out when schools pass idiots rather than "injure their self-esteem". We end up with a world full of self-important morons.

Date: 2004-07-13 04:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mediavictim.livejournal.com
Sometimes I wonder though if that is any worse than being smart with low self esteem...

Perhaps I seek the bliss that only the truly thickheaded and ignorant can hope to achieve.


"As intelligence goes up..happieness often goes down..look I made a graph...I make lots of graphs"~lisa simpson
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