[Rhodes22-list] New Career

[Michael D. Weisner]

Brad,

OK, you got me.  It watched the video.

Mike

From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com> Sunday, July 08, 2007 9:17 AM
> It is hard to decide when to change careers, especially when your 
> avocation
> is your vocation.  But sometimes, you just know when the right time has
> come.  I'm not sure what being a "mister"  pays but with some sacrifices,
> we'll get by.  Brad
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> Jul. 02, 2007
> Copyright (c) Las Vegas Review-Journal
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> *MIST OPPORTUNITY: JUST A DAY AT THE BEACH*
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> *James Bond never had it so good in Las Vegas, but our squirt reporter
> performs like a drip*
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> Breast misting is a delicate art. You don't want to go straight for them.
> You need to pretend you're equally intrigued by other exposed areas of the
> body.
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> "I try and go everywhere," said Travis Emmons during my training. "No
> concentration."
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> As the "mood director" at Tao Beach, which opened on May 5 at The 
> Venetian,
> it's Emmons' responsibility to stroll the deck in search of 
> sun-worshippers
> who are insufficiently moistened. On a searing June afternoon, about 20 of
> them were attractive women who won't be sporting tan lines until August.
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> "It's not that big of a deal," said the 22-year-old with a mullet haircut
> and a case of SPF 50 sunscreen. "I'm born and raised here, so I've known
> about these European-style pools. This just happens to be one.
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> "It's not why I took the position or anything."
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> Emmons, a Western High School graduate who hopes to own his own nightclub
> one day, said his main job is "just to make sure everybody has a good 
> time."
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> That's why he lent me his party hat.
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> "*Nobody* else gets to wear the hat," he explained.
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> For Emmons, misting topless babes may not be a big deal. For me, it's more
> action than I've seen at one time in my entire life.
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> "It feels so good," said one, who refused to give her name, as I put my
> Misty Mate personal mister to work. Mood directors fill it with 16 ounces 
> of
> the ice melt-off from a cooler behind the bar.
>
> This sure beats the hot-tar roofing I did recently.
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> "Oh, please," the woman continued, cupping the underside of her breasts to
> prop them up.
>
> This is more graphic than some of the adult films I've ordered in hotel
> rooms (I mean that *my friends* tell me they've ordered).
>
> Mist works because of a process called evaporative cooling. (Please enjoy
> the science lesson. I think we both could use some cooling off.)
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> "When that fine droplet of water comes in contact with your skin, heat
> transfers from your skin to that water," explained Dr. Lawrence Tirri,
> professor of biochemistry at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Then 
> the
> water evaporates and cools your skin."
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> It's the same process that makes both sweat, and swamp coolers, work.
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> "But I don't think you're going to feel any more than 5 or 6 degrees of
> difference," Tirri said.
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> Come to think of it, neither sweat nor swamp coolers work all that well
> either.
>
> "Come on, let me show you," Emmons said, motioning toward the entrance, 
> away
> from the deck. This occurred after he answered a two-way radio call
> requesting that he "run a table."
>
> "When people get to the front door, I introduce myself and introduce them 
> to
> the waitress," he explained. "I'll tell them about all the amenities. Then 
> I
> check on them and make sure they're happy."
>
> I wasn't budging. Although aerosolizing water for the chilling of breast
> skin is not a mood director's only responsibility, I informed Emmons that 
> I
> required a much more thorough understanding of its intricacies before 
> moving
> on. Weeks of research, possibly, lay ahead.
>
> I approached Kayla, 28, of Huntington Beach, Calif., by the pool. At
> Oceanside High School on Long Island, N.Y., this voluptuous blonde would 
> not
> have looked at me. On this 105-degree Sunday, however, there was longing 
> in
> her eyes (in addition to blue contact lenses).
>
> "I already told you -- misting is not a big part of my job," Emmons said,
> growing annoyed at my narrow focus. "It's mostly hosting and promotion."
>
> Emmons was hired by Tao Beach after busing tables at Jet at The Mirage 
> last
> year.
>
> "But, by day, I promoted the club," he said earlier. "I'd hit the streets
> and try to meet people. And in that, I learned a lot about different ways 
> to
> spark conversations casually."
>
> The most essential requirement for a mood director, Emmons said, is being
> "someone who everybody likes."
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> This has never been a specialty of mine.
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> "What the (expletive)?" asked the guy seated under an umbrella at day bed
> No. 50, directly *behind* Kayla.
>
> The last straw for my misting career began when I could not adequately 
> reach
> Kayla -- even after pumping up the Misty Mate for added pressure. There is
> another way to increase its range, which Emmons showed me earlier, and
> that's to render the device itself topless. When the attachment that
> distributes mist in all directions is removed, the pressure increases to
> near Bellagio-fountain strength.
>
> However, this move is for professionals only.
>
> "Dude, you soaked those guys!" Emmons said. (Mis-misting, by the way, is 
> one
> of the only ways guys can get misted at Tao Beach.)
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> Umbrella people are never to be misted, much less hosed down.
>
> "I'll take my party hat back," Emmons said.
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> One week after my stint, Tao Beach's co-owners decided to require tops on
> all female sunbathers.
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> Watch video of Levitan as a mood director at
> www.reviewjournal.com/video/fearandloafing.html. Fear and Loafing appears
> Mondays in the Living section. Levitan's previous adventures are posted at
> fearandloafing.com.
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