Opal, you’re one sick cookie…I love it!
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… 
Hey, it’s a cool place! (Here is our waiter from last time: http://fathom.org/opalcat/diary/waiter2.jpg )
Mmmmmmm…
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 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 is a lot of fun with a large group our size as Opal suggested. Just Curious.
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.
*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.
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.
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)
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…)
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
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!
As a newbie do I need to bring the goat?
Is one goat really enough for about 40 people?
Do they serve cheese fries?
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Sign MerrySquirrels and I up for the museum tour, if you please!
Which musuem are we going to, btw? Is there any consensus?
MR
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.
Well if Forbidden Planet has turned into Toys-r-Us can someone recommend another good science fiction bookstore in the city?