The Usual Gang
R. Alex Whitlock
The show in Hailey went quite well. One of the funny things is that were it not for the snow falling outside, it felt - however briefly - like I was back in Texas. Perhaps most telling was that all of the concert stereotypes were there:

The Middle-Aged Guy - He's in his forties. Generally seems like a relatively nice man and not-bad-looking. The problem is that he is in the middle of a war against Father Time and every girl in that bar twenty years his junior is collateral damage of that war. The girls are wanting to dance alone, with their girl_friends, or some boy that might be roughly their age. Instead they're confronted with this forty-something year old guy who starts dancing in front of them so they have to go to the trouble of relocating so that he doesn't get the mistaken impression that they're dancing with him.

The Show-off Pros - Yes, we get it, they can dance. You've taken classes or maybe even taught classes. Hooray for them. Must they really take up half the dance floor so that they can swing dance to a slow slong?

The GNOers - GNO stands for Girl's Night Out. They're a bunch of mostly married women that go out together without their husbands in large part just to prove to themselves that they can have a good time without their significant others. They're generally just one step past their "prime" (or subconsciously see themselves as such) and, like The Middle Aged Guy they spend some time dodging on the dance floor, part of them is just trying to move the hands of time back just a bit to prove that they can still be rockin' little girls.

The Guy/Girl That Looks Like Someone Famous - This time it was Jason Lee.

That Weird Guy Who Always Goes To Shows Alone, Hides Himself in a Corner, and Dances To Himself While He Sings Along - That's me, because God forbid I ever meet someone at one of these things. It's so much easier to make snarky remarks... :)
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