# Jan 6 NYC Dopefest: Official Countdown(Linked! Don't Delete!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 16, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929 "2000-12-16T19:37:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/21 "2000-12-18T00:15:53Z")
**Opal** , you’re one sick cookie…I love it! ---
**Author:** ![PattyCake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@PattyCake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PattyCake)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/22 "2000-12-18T02:25:20Z")
Wow, nothing like coming across a thread in which people are discussing your own marital infidelity! Not sure if I want to come to a party where everyone thinks I’m a tramp… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/23 "2000-12-18T02:40:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cajun Man \* > \*\ ***Opal** , you’re one sick cookie…I love it! > \*\* Hey, it’s a cool place! (Here is our waiter from last time: [http://fathom.org/opalcat/diary/waiter2.jpg](http://fathom.org/opalcat/diary/waiter2.jpg) ) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/24 "2000-12-18T03:10:04Z")
Mmmmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/25 "2000-12-18T03:46:34Z")
My VCR is broken dammit! [sup]_tries to think of a non-lame attempt to get people to try out his new triple tufted mattress_[/sup] Details on the Museum tour yet? …Must be the way I [type my posts](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=51323) or something, I sure am coming off all wrong… (I know I just set myself up for something, I just don’t know what yet…) Is Chumleys the place for the night or do we have secondary establishments selected? I just remember the last two dopefests I’ve been at we travelled a bit from one to the other, and [La Nouvelle Justine](http://www.lanouvellejustine.com) _is_ a lot of fun with a large group our size as **Opal** suggested. Just Curious. ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/26 "2000-12-18T03:51:02Z")
I hate to do this, but I might not be able to come. ☹ I’m traveling for New Years (and there’s no way in hell I’m missing what I have planned ;)) and I don’t know if I can press my boss to get two weekends in a row off. Plus, it’s the big Winter Sale. I might still show up, if there’s a miracle. Keep your fingers crossed. ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/27 "2000-12-18T04:04:55Z")
\*_Little Nemo_—Forbidden Planet is still open. I was just in there today, and they show no signs of closing or even relocating. They seem to no longer stock Dan Clowes’ work, so I’m not too happy with them at the moment, but I did find some wonderful old Robert Crumb stuff that has Frosty the Snowman as a Marxist revolutionary. I guess I can’t stay mad at them. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/28 "2000-12-18T04:22:44Z")
> [@](#): > > But Rosebud has a secret of her own to reveal . . . She’s a sled? I’m glad to hear Forbidden Planet is still a going concern. I had no particular reason to think otherwise except I haven’t been there in about ten years and these things happen. ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/29 "2000-12-18T04:50:06Z")
Nemo, They’ve moved at least once - up the block, from 12th to 13th, and it wasn’t as big last time I was there (that was a while, though) ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/30 "2000-12-18T04:57:36Z")
**soulsling** - so how IS that mattress? 😉 I may or may not be up for the museum tour…depends on when I can drag my lazy butt into NY. (Who knew I was only 3 hours away! Seemed like a HELL of a lot longer on those high school trips…) ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/31 "2000-12-18T13:56:28Z")
I checked with the hotel right down the block from my apartment. Their rates are $130 for a regular room and $150 for a suite. It’s a sort-of-funky older building that probably hasn’t been modernized in a while, but seems like a cool place to stay. It’s on West 72nd Street, less than a block from Central Park. It’s on the same block as the Dakota, the famous apartment building in which many celebrities live and in front of which John Lennon got shot. It’s very convenient to Lincoln Center and the Museum of Natural History, among other things. Hotel Olcott, 27 West 72nd Street, New York, NY 10023 212-877-4200, fax 212-580-0511 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/32 "2000-12-18T14:16:28Z")
How close is that hotel to Chumleys? Oh, and the Nouvelle Justine thing was a suggestion for something to do later in the evening, after dinner. It’s way too expensive to do our dinner at! YIkes! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/33 "2000-12-18T14:21:46Z")
As a newbie do I need to bring the goat? Is one goat really enough for about 40 people? Do they serve cheese fries? ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/34 "2000-12-18T14:28:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Little Nemo \* > **She’s a sled?** Nope, it’s worse than that. Only one of the twins is mine. I’m thinking Bobbi Sue Jo Bob if it’s a girl, and Jed if it’s a boy. p.s. to Zebra-- just IMO, we might need two goats, depending on their size and agility. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/35 "2000-12-18T14:45:18Z")
We just reserved a room at the Hotel Olcott for the night of the 6th. We’d love to have people over for a nightcap after the festivities are over for the day… but people have to bring the booze if that is what ya want. Turns out it’s a weekly hotel, but they did have room for a one-nighter like us 🙂 We’re probably taking the train up… the three of us totals $382 round trip… if that falls through, we’ll drive. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/36 "2000-12-18T14:52:24Z")
I haven’t been inside Forbidden Planet in years, but I understand from a pal in the SF line of the biz that they’ve pretty well cleaned out their book section and now concentrate mostly on toys… …er, um, “collectables.” ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/37 "2000-12-18T15:35:49Z")
**Ukelele Ike** —Yeah, you’re right about Forbidden Planet: it’s increasingly a high-end toy store, and most of their fare is in the superhero line. If you’re interested in comics that aren’t so mainstream, I can name better places to go. Forbidden Planet isn’t the kind of place you can find back issues (or even the latest issue) of _Murder Can Be Fun_ or _Beer Frame_, but you can find _Geeksville_ or Robert Crumb reprints there. They’re dealing in manga lately, plus they’ve got a nice selection of back issues of _Mad_. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/38 "2000-12-18T16:45:18Z")
Sign MerrySquirrels and I up for the museum tour, if you please! Which musuem are we going to, btw? Is there any consensus? MR ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/39 "2000-12-18T16:50:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\*I haven’t been inside Forbidden Planet in years, but I understand from a pal in the SF line of the biz that they’ve pretty well cleaned out their book section and now concentrate mostly on toys… \*\* I’m really sorry to hear this. I haven’t been there in years, either, but I spent a _significant_ portion of my youth taking the train into the City and going to Forbidden Planet for my serious SF jonses. Too bad. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929/40 "2000-12-18T17:17:57Z")
Well if Forbidden Planet has turned into Toys-r-Us can someone recommend another good science fiction bookstore in the city? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-nyc-dopefest-official-countdown-linked-dont-delete/45929.md?page=3)