# May 12 NYC Dopefest Weekend: Up to the Upper West Side **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 27, 2001, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509 "2001-04-27T07:12:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/41 "2001-05-04T03:40:25Z")
Ok, I’m back in 🙂 My family shit on Saturday turns out to be _daytime_ family shit, so I’ll be showing up at 4[sub]2[/sub]0 at some point. I’ll be coming from a party, and I’ll probably be overdressed for the occasion, but hey, it’s a pretty dress. Yay! Rose ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/42 "2001-05-04T18:44:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wonko The Sane \* > \*\*Wonko wants Swiddles to know that it won’t be the same without her. > > Wonko also wants to be kept up to date on any Burlington dopefests. > > \*\* Thanks, Wonk. Hopefully I’ll get up there sometime in the summer, my Aunt has a house in the Hamptons that I want to visit. I mean, I want to visit my Aunt in the Hamptons. Yea, that’s it. [hyjack for Wonko and Billdo] Went to a Guster show on Tuesday. The pretended they were their own opening act by dressing up in Mullet wigs and acid dyed cut offs and called themselves the Peace Soliders. They sang a smattering of “Every Girl’s Crazy 'Bout a Sharp Dressed Man” and Christian rock songs. It was the godammed funniest thing I’ve ever seen, especially since the majority of the audience were 15 year old kids and they didn’t get it. Heh.[/hyjack] ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/43 "2001-05-04T20:05:35Z")
::sigh:: I must go from a definite maybe to a definte no. The husband and I are going apartment hunting on all available weekends, in the not-so-wonderful\* state of New Jersey, leaving behind our rent-stabilized 1-bedroom in Chelsea due to the November arrival of our first non-cat dependent. (Damn that’s a lot of hyphens!) Unless someone can find me a 2-bedroom rent-stabilized apartment in a decent neighborhood on the West Side for under $2000. Yeah, that’s what I thought. My company is leaving Manhattan to move to the pit that is Newark. So I’ll be in Cranford or Maplewood or Montclair of some other town with a mass transit system every weekend in the near future. Oh well, some other time perhaps. \*Spoken by a life-long New Yorker, going through an attitude adjustment. No offense intended. Really. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/44 "2001-05-05T03:59:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SwimmingRiddles \*\*\* > > [hyjack for Wonko and Billdo] Went to a Guster show on Tuesday. The pretended they were their own opening act by dressing up in Mullet wigs and acid dyed cut offs and called themselves the Peace Soliders. They sang a smattering of “Every Girl’s Crazy 'Bout a Sharp Dressed Man” and Christian rock songs. It was the godammed funniest thing I’ve ever seen, especially since the majority of the audience were 15 year old kids and they didn’t get it. Heh.[/hyjack] \*\* That sounds awesome! I envy you. ---
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/45 "2001-05-05T22:21:01Z")
Unfortunatly it looks like I will be unable to attend the fest. My car has decided it needs the money I was going to use so I will have to ship the fest due to lack of money ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/46 "2001-05-07T00:28:22Z")
bumpin this on accounta it’s less than a week away. ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/47 "2001-05-07T00:36:44Z")
Let’s play pin the thread on the first page! _bump_ Cool, I get to meet Wicked too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/48 "2001-05-07T01:05:56Z")
I can’t go, either. I’m having automotive difficulties that require money, so I’ll have to put in overtime on Saturday. ---
**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/49 "2001-05-07T01:10:07Z")
OK, I have to become a maybe. The 12th is my B-day and I was planning on going into NYC… But, this weekend some friends told me they planned to have a party at one of their houses. I can’t blow off my own party. So, if I can get out of the party, I’ll be at the dopefest. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/50 "2001-05-07T01:22:59Z")
Hell, **blur** , bring your friends along to the Dopefest! Any chance to corrupt your pals, you should go for it. ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/51 "2001-05-07T04:39:11Z")
Okay. So. I can come, and would love to, if’n it won’t overtax the whole reserved room thing that’s going on. ---
**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/52 "2001-05-07T05:23:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Geobabe \* > \*\*Hell, **blur** , bring your friends along to the Dopefest! Any chance to corrupt your pals, you should go for it. \*\* I tried. I really did. Some will go, but some of them are under the impression that NY is this horrible, far away place. Sheesh. I guess I’ll have to fight ignorance on the home front first. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/53 "2001-05-07T05:59:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blur \* > \*\* I tried. I really did. Some will go, but some of them are under the impression that NY is this horrible, far away place. Sheesh. I guess I’ll have to fight ignorance on the home front first. \*\* Good grief, I’m coming from _Massachusetts_. Your friends are lame, and you can tell them I said that. ---
**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/54 "2001-05-07T06:50:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Geobabe \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by blur \* > > \*\* I tried. I really did. Some will go, but some of them are under the impression that NY is this horrible, far away place. Sheesh. I guess I’ll have to fight ignorance on the home front first. \*\* > > Good grief, I’m coming from _Massachusetts_. Your friends are lame, and you can tell them I said that. \*\* Oh god, tell me about it. I mean, they are great people, but some of them won’t even go to freaking New Haven without an escort. And you calling them lame will do nothing. I tried that too. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/55 "2001-05-07T13:50:23Z")
Could some nice person (Green Bean) offer to make name tags again? Not only did the name tags at the last NYC Dopefest help those of us (me) with not-so-good memories for names, but they also seemed to be a big hit with the crowd at the Idiot. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/56 "2001-05-08T00:21:25Z")
Hey, **Blur!** Tell ‘em that folks are comin’ from as far away as Texas (that would be me). Actually, I’m just up the road in Mass. on business, but no need for them to know, right? ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/57 "2001-05-08T00:55:11Z")
Well hell, I’m coming from Maryland, Silo’s coming from Richmond, and Oldie’s coming from Georgia. So we’ve got PLENTY of people travelling for this. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/58 "2001-05-08T15:41:01Z")
Bump two three four, Bump two three four. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/59 "2001-05-08T22:49:05Z")
Sweet Mary and Joseph Berkowitz! I should hang out in MPSIMS more often. Is it too late to sign up? [sub]P.S. Thankee-sai, Maeglin.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2001, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509/60 "2001-05-09T04:33:58Z")
So if I were to scramble and get a ticket from Louisville (arriving Friday afternoon, late-ish & leaving Sunday):[list=1][_]Where would I want to fly into?[_]Would I need a car, should I cab it or could I get a ride?Hotel or someones couch?[/list=1] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-12-nyc-dopefest-weekend-up-to-the-upper-west-side/63509.md?page=4)