# Los Angeles Dopefest - Friday, November 2nd **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278 "2007-10-27T23:30:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/1 "2007-10-27T23:30:48Z")
Would anyone be interested? ---
**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:** [October 27, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/2 "2007-10-27T23:38:02Z")
I was going to suggest an L.A. Dopefest by public transport. In any case, can we make it somewhere near Union Station? That way anyone near a subway station or Metrolink, and in my case Amtrak doesn’t have to drive. I’d like to try to make it in any case though. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/3 "2007-10-27T23:49:53Z")
I’m up for it, as long as it isn’t in BFE (since I am, in fact, traveling from BFE). ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/4 "2007-10-27T23:53:21Z")
Date depending, of course, **Spiny Norman** and I would come. Location’s not an obstacle. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/5 "2007-10-27T23:53:58Z")
We’d be up for one, especially if the San Gabriel Valley is the location. Pasadena I’ll drive to - Downtown LA I won’t. Because I’ll match BFEs with **Queen Bruin** any day. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/6 "2007-10-28T00:04:14Z")
I’m carless and live in Hollywood. Anything reachable by public transport is good. As far as food, there’s an excellent (and moderately priced) Indian place a few blocks from Sunset and La Brea, but I’m open to ideas. Edit: if (relative) BFE is the location of choice, I’ll happily put in for gas with anyone kind and not as vehicularly challenged. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/7 "2007-10-28T00:23:56Z")
[QUOTE=Paladud] I’m carless and live in Hollywood. Anything reachable by public transport is good. As far as food, there’s an excellent (and moderately priced) Indian place a few blocks from Sunset and La Brea, but I’m open to ideas. Edit: if (relative) BFE is the location of choice, I’ll happily put in for gas with anyone kind and not as vehicularly challenged. [/QUOTE] It’s not gas so much as the time. I commute 150-200 miles a day (I live next to an onion farm outside of Lancaster and go to UCLA, plus I rideshare with my husband downtown once a week). I didn’t go to the last Dopefest in Costa Mesa simply because I just couldn’t face the drive. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/8 "2007-10-28T00:30:26Z")
Depending on when it is I am way up for one. After that anywhere is fine by me. [QUOTE=silenus] We’d be up for one, especially if the San Gabriel Valley is the location. Pasadena I’ll drive to - Downtown LA I won’t. Because I’ll match BFEs with **Queen Bruin** any day. 😃 [/QUOTE] However until sometime in January, I will match BFEs with anybody (I’ll be in Toronto Canada) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/9 "2007-10-28T04:56:19Z")
I’d certainly be interested. Since it’s a one-time deal, I don’t really care where. Downtown or San Gabriel Valley is great by me. Pasadena seems like a reasonable choice, but I don’t know where the majority of LA area Dopers are situated. As far as dates go, the only comment I would make is that we either need to do it soon, or we should consider early 2008. Reason being that we’re rapidly approaching the holiday season where folks may scatter. I don’t spend much time in Pasadena anymore, but there is a Buca Di Beppo’s in Old Town that would be able to handle whatever size group we coordinate. But I’m open to whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/10 "2007-10-28T05:10:16Z")
[QUOTE=Darryl Lict] I was going to suggest an L.A. Dopefest by public transport. In any case, can we make it somewhere near Union Station? That way anyone near a subway station or Metrolink, and in my case Amtrak doesn’t have to drive. I’d like to try to make it in any case though. [/QUOTE] By the way, **Darryl** (and anyone else commuting in by public transportation), if the 'fest does end up in Pasadena, it’s about a 25-30 minute ride on the Gold Line from Union Station, so please don’t let that keep you from coming if that’s how it goes down. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/11 "2007-10-28T08:46:03Z")
Sounds like fun. I live fairly close to Long Beach, so that would be OK, also San Gabriel valley or even downtown LA, pretty much anywhere that doesn’t involve taking 3 or more buses (I am carless as well as licenseless). Even Pasadena would be OK, I can take the Gold Line there. I’m open to pretty much any weekend Dopefest as long as it’s not on the weekend before Thanksgiving, since I will be throwing the Princess’ birthday party that weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/12 "2007-10-28T23:19:08Z")
How about a small dopefest next Friday night, with something bigger next year? ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/13 "2007-10-29T17:11:15Z")
[QUOTE=Paladud] How about a small dopefest next Friday night, with something bigger next year? [/QUOTE] I think this would be doable for me. This thread seems awfully quiet, though. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/14 "2007-10-29T17:16:23Z")
I haven’t been very active lately (grants season) but I think I could make it-esp. Pasadena. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/15 "2007-10-29T17:18:05Z")
I wouldn’t be able to make next Friday (wedding anniversary). I can always make the next one. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/16 "2007-10-29T17:21:56Z")
I work in Pasadena, so a friday evening is good for me. The next couple fridays could be problematic though with our moving. (painting and such to do before we actually start moving furniture) ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/17 "2007-10-29T17:25:37Z")
[QUOTE=Queen Bruin] I’m up for it, as long as it isn’t in BFE (since I am, in fact, traveling from BFE). [/QUOTE] I’m 50 miles beyond BFE then…not looking too good here for me. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/18 "2007-10-29T19:33:04Z")
I can do Friday night, especially if it’s in Pasadena – the bus ride there is more convenient from my workplace. I just need to talk my mom into taking the Princess for the evening and I’m all set. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/19 "2007-10-29T19:35:25Z")
Just to clarify, for those people who are saying “next Friday night,” are we discussing November 2nd? ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278/20 "2007-10-29T19:39:47Z")
I dunno - personally, this Friday night (11/2) is more convenient than the following 2 Fridays, due to child care availability. If it’s not this week, I may not be able to make it. In that case, have fun and I’ll see you all at the next Dopefest. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-dopefest-friday-november-2nd/424278.md?page=2)