# Festival of the Dope Persuasion (Bay Area) Nov. 3rd **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 10, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253 "2007-10-10T19:17:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/81 "2007-10-29T19:08:33Z")
I’ll try to not be dead. I just am in the middle of moving out of SOMA hell into lower haight. The apartment is on the third floor and I collect old and rare books so its going to be way more manual labor than this rich bitch is used to. I also forgot that I have to prove that I exist and am not a sock or a troll so okay the carnival freak drunk lobster is back on. No one answered how i’m supposed to find you assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/82 "2007-10-29T19:13:59Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] I’ll try to not be dead. I just am in the middle of moving out of SOMA hell into lower haight. [/quote] See you at Molotov’s! > [@](#): > > No one answered how i’m supposed to find you assholes. Look for a guy in a Giants hat (me) and a guy who looks like Hal Sparks (Demo), and a guy who looks like a young Donald Sutherland (Dunawake). ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/83 "2007-10-29T19:44:56Z")
[QUOTE=Troy McClure SF] See you at Molotov’s! [/QUOTE] You go there a lot? I am moving like five feet away from that place. I saw it for the first time when I was looking at the apartment and thought “that’s a wonderful name for a bar” ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/84 "2007-10-29T19:46:50Z")
Chances look increasingly slim that we’ll be braving the city for y’all, so I’m glad I didn’t try and firmly confirm. Party on without us, though. ---
**Author:** ![qubed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f07891/32.png) [@qubed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qubed)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/85 "2007-10-29T20:37:54Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] I’ll try to not be dead. I just am in the middle of moving out of SOMA hell into lower haight. The apartment is on the third floor and I collect old and rare books so its going to be way more manual labor than this rich bitch is used to. I also forgot that I have to prove that I exist and am not a sock or a troll so okay the carnival freak drunk lobster is back on. No one answered how i’m supposed to find you assholes. [/QUOTE] As a denizen of of SOMA, I take offense. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/86 "2007-10-29T20:42:38Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] You go there a lot? I am moving like five feet away from that place. I saw it for the first time when I was looking at the apartment and thought “that’s a wonderful name for a bar” [/QUOTE] If I weren’t so close to Lucky 13, I’d be at Molotov’s all the time; I love it. ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/87 "2007-10-29T20:45:15Z")
**Cometothedarkside** is a nerd, **alanak** is surely mistaken about SOMA, and **troy mcclure** clearly has a drinking problem ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/88 "2007-10-29T21:26:09Z")
[QUOTE=ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies] Chances look increasingly slim that we’ll be braving the city for y’all, so I’m glad I didn’t try and firmly confirm. Party on without us, though. [/QUOTE] Ditto. Have fun! ---
**Author:** ![Dunawake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dunawake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunawake)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/89 "2007-10-29T22:35:36Z")
[QUOTE=Troy McClure SF] See you at Molotov’s! Look for a guy in a Giants hat (me) and a guy who looks like Hal Sparks (Demo), and a guy who looks like a young Donald Sutherland (Dunawake). [/QUOTE] Heh. Oddly enough, the only other time I’ve been compared to a celebrity it was to Kiefer. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/90 "2007-10-29T22:57:36Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] **Cometothedarkside** is a nerd, **alanak** is surely mistaken about SOMA, and **troy mcclure** clearly has a drinking problem [/QUOTE] Nerdiness does not preclude hanging out at a bar with people from teh intarwebs. I will be in attendance, for example. I’d say you have to be a little nerdy to even have found this message board in the first place. Perhaps you haven’t admitted it to yourself yet. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/91 "2007-10-30T00:20:45Z")
[QUOTE=Dunawake] Heh. Oddly enough, the only other time I’ve been compared to a celebrity it was to Kiefer. [/QUOTE] Kiefer was my first thought, but I definitely see more Donald. ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/92 "2007-10-30T01:51:39Z")
[QUOTE=Troy McClure SF] Kiefer was my first thought, but I definitely see more Donald. [/QUOTE] Wait until Saturday for this. Then we can all argue whether he looks more like Kiefer and Donald until the sun comes up. I’ll have visuals prepared. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/93 "2007-10-30T02:11:15Z")
[QUOTE=ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies] Chances look increasingly slim that we’ll be braving the city for y’all, so I’m glad I didn’t try and firmly confirm. Party on without us, though. [/QUOTE] Weak! You’d better have at least as good an excuse as you did for the last Dopefest you pussed out on. Although, “We can’t make it, we have to butcher a steer,” is going to be hard to top. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/94 "2007-10-30T02:33:43Z")
Well, in all fairness, we didn’t have to deal with anything more than the average grocery store customer. Everything was cut and wrapped and already frozen by the time I saw it. We did have to deal with some 200 lbs of cowflesh at once, though. We later learned that it had been a young bull. I just got a tentative “maybe…” out of my better half, who is blasting away on the couch in this, her 3rd day of being addicted to Psychonauts. So it does seem to be a bit more hopeful than previously described. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/95 "2007-10-31T16:06:21Z")
Ok, it seems that I will forever be having to choose between attending a DopeFest and visiting my Mom up in Humboldt. Last weekend I had wanted to go, but she was in Oregon attending a big birthday bash for the guy who used to shoe our horses (the oddest things prompt my mom to drive across state lines, though she did apparently win $250 at a casino along the way. Go Mom!). And since I just eeked into the White Elephant exchange by the skin of my teethe, I’m dying to go root out something totally bizarre from the piles of flotsam and jetsam that my family has gathered through the eons. I’m sorry! ☹ :o Next time… ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/96 "2007-11-02T01:53:57Z")
Bump. **lobstermobster** , can you confirm that there won’t be any bounce castles? Thanks. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/97 "2007-11-02T04:08:04Z")
What do you have against bouncy castles? I can attest that bouncy castles go very well with beer. ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/98 "2007-11-02T05:51:53Z")
[QUOTE=blondebear] Bump. **lobstermobster** , can you confirm that there won’t be any bounce castles? Thanks. 😛 [/QUOTE] there will be NO bounce castles in a mile radius. ---
**Author:** ![qubed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f07891/32.png) [@qubed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qubed)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/99 "2007-11-02T07:05:49Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] there will be NO bounce castles in a mile radius. [/QUOTE] what about snuggle castles? ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253/100 "2007-11-02T08:04:06Z")
There’s a small but finite chance that I may show up. My buddy says I can crash at his house, although I’m pushing my luck as I kind of use it as a hotel. And look, it’s my 1000th post! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festival-of-the-dope-persuasion-bay-area-nov-3rd/422253.md?page=6)