… and if anyone was confused as to why a newbie was offering his services, it’s because Bryan here is my SO (some of you L.A. dopers may remember him from the Dopefest at Ye Olde King’s Head). He actually knows quite a bit of L.A. history and knows of interesting places to go that aren’t always the big tourist destinations.
Just as long as you come pick me up from work at 4, right baby? 
Speaking of, I still have no idea if I have a ride from the airport tomorrow (4:08-ish.) Did I miss something or should I take this as a subtle hint? 
I checked our (Strainger’s, Padeye’s & mine) flight and it hasn’t been cancelled or postponed, so we’ll be flying in as scheduled (well, provided that we acutally leave Phoenix on time).
Hey, last I heard there was a really cool museum (The Museum of Death, IIRC) in Hollywood that was fairly new. If anyone else is interested in death and torture, let me know and I’ll find out the details ;).
The cell phone list has been sent out. If anybody regrets horribly not sending in their number before now, you have until 4:30 pacific time to send it in, and I will add you and resend the list.
Of course baby! I might even give a tour of Paseo Colorado while I’m out there!
The people who actually live in the tourist trap are always the last to know anything about it…if you get info about this, please tell ME about it. Sounds wonderfully sick and fun, my kinda place.
And ** JustPlainBryan ** if you do any tours of Hollywood, don’t miss the spot by the Rock n Roll Ralphs where my name has been in cement since 1966.
stoid
This is gonna be great!!
And I, for one, am in awe, and greatly appreciative, of Shayna’s efforts on our behalf. A Jillion thanks to you, dear!!!
And appreciative nods to Mercutio, Sue Dunhym and slackergirl for helping with the details.
And anybody else I’ve forgotten who’s helped.
Oh yeah, wasn’t there some guy making name tags?
Well, I found the website: http://museumofdeath.com/ (oddly enough :p).
However, I’m not sure if it’s currently open or not.
But the information page still lists hours and entrance fees. I’ve tried calling the number a couple times, but it’s been busy. Damn.
Ok. The excitement is palpable. I am dying waiting for Friday to come so we can get the party started. So. I will look well past Friday. All the way to after the party. I am going to post some predicitions of what the DTF(DopeToberFest [as coined by Demo]) threads will be titled.
“DTF ate my dingo!”
“Clog boy attacks five, details at 11”
“DTF + Vegas = A very special Doper wedding”
followed up by
“DTF + Reno = A very special Doper Divorce”
“I came for the booze. I stayed for the anallingus.”
“Is that my hand down your pants, or is that your hand down my pants?”
“Adams, party of 60. Yes, we do have room, I hope you don’t mind the roof. Its a good view.”
“Redondo Beach? Oh. I was at the El Torito in Hermosa.” (Merc starts that one.)
“Huge Hostess cupcake devours five, details at 10”
“How I spent my weekend in LA or I have enough alcohol in my system to pickle a chubby infant.”
Ok. I should probably do work or something.
pat
I had some weirdness with my flights too.
The other day my husband was asking all kinds of questions, and I looked at my tickets to see what time I had to leave tomorrow. I noticed that my connecting flight was coming into JFK and leaving from LaGuardia. I called the crackhead at Yahoo Travel, and she was like “Yup, JFK then LaGuardia.” and I was all “Um, no.” and then she said she’d try to fix it. After about an hour, she comes back and says it’s all taken care of and now I’ll be connecting in Chicago, and my flight home would remain the same, since I was flying into and out of JFK. I had to go pick up my new tickets, so I went last night. While the girl was looking me up in the computer, she tells me that American is no longer flying into JFK, so she’ll have to change my return flight too. That kind of surprised me, since no one contacted me about that at all. I asked her when I would have found out, and she said probably when I went to board a flight that no longer exsisted. Nice.
Check your tickets folks! 
Rose
See you all tomorrow! Woo!
Just remember the three most important factors of a DopeFest: Pictures, pictures, pictures.
Take lots. Post all. That way those of us who won’t be there to get drunk with you can at least laugh at how drunk you look.
Ow, it hurts, it hurts! You can’t make me laugh that hard, Pat. You’ll kill me next time.
Does anyone know if Fran, Alex and Silver made it into town? I think they were all supposed to be getting in today.
The next 12 hours is going to kill me. I hate waiting!
OK, so is Coldfire’s title just plain “Nazi,” or is there something else to it? I want to get it right, of course…
Esprix
God, I wish I weren’t pinching pennies right now; I’d love to be there.
Y’all have fun, but not too much.
Fran and Alex are supposed to be at the hotel around 9 or 10. I have no clue what time silver and Caldazar planned to leave to get here.
Last chance to get cell phone numbers - I have two more people to add now. If you’d like to make it on the list you’ve got about 45 minutes til the final one goes out.
“Nazi Clog Bastard”, if you please.
My goodness, it’s 1:25 local time here. At approximately 05:00, a taxi will stop outside my door to take me to the train station, where I catch the first train to Schiphol (the airport). Upon arrival at Schiphol, I check in, wait for one hour and fifteen minutes, then fly to Milan in one hour and forty minutes. In Milan, I meet up with Spiny Norman at the transfer desk. We’ll check in, and get on the plane to LAX about 90 minutes later. The Milan-LAX leg will take… 12 hours.
And I can’t sleep on planes [sub][sup]unless I’m drunk as a skunk[/sup][/sub].
And I have a case of the flu, I’m afraid (which means 300 Italians and one Dane will get it too…).
And I still have to pack my bag.
And I haven’t slept yet.
And I’m very tired.
But HEY! Tomorrow night, I shall be dopin’ in Cali!
(I’m sure my sleep schedule will turn to normal during the weekend. Yeah, right. :))
Clog Boy signing off - see you in a bit!
Just wanted to stick my head in and seethe with jealousy at you all! Heh, seriously though, have a wonderful, safe time gang. And hug each other lots for me, k?
Rasa, if it makes you feel any better, I can whine about how much we wish you were there about every 45 minutes or so. How’s that?