# NE Ohio DopeFest on Sat. April 13 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 3, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889 "2013-03-03T04:19:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/61 "2013-03-14T04:02:54Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > I’ll make sure that happens. Thanks, **sam**. Folks, if there’s the slightest possibility that you might come to the DopeFest, please post here. We’d love to see you! ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/62 "2013-03-14T04:06:16Z")
Oh, wait…it looks like there will be other female Dopers than me! Yippee! And yes, I did ask **Lillith Fair** to come this year. Again. And again she refuses. But she has an excuse since she moved to New York State. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2013, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/63 "2013-03-14T04:27:59Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > But she has an excuse since she moved to New York State. Just tell her “Little Nemo’s in New York and he’s planning on being there.” ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/64 "2013-03-14T04:39:45Z")
She really prefers to keep all of us as “imaginary friends”! LOL. Well, not ME, of course! I keep telling her everyone is harmless, but no luck. I think her husband would be a great Doper, too! ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/65 "2013-03-14T05:43:06Z")
Funny thing is guys, I actually just got a job, but still not looking like I could make it. It’s telecommuting though so maybe I won’t tell them I’m in Ohio when I’m working. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/66 "2013-03-14T17:54:19Z")
Your secret is safe with us. Please, come to Dublin West! ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/67 "2013-03-14T23:48:29Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > So, should we expect a PM or something with the address, once we get closer to the date? > [@samclem](#): > > I’ll make sure that happens. For those out of town, Brian lives about a mile North of Cleveland Hopkins Airport. Again, we’ll make sure you get directions. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/68 "2013-03-15T03:58:38Z")
As I’ve said, I was planning on visiting Cleveland anyway and this meeting gives me an event to organize my trip around. Which means I’ll be visiting other sights in the city while there. My main targets are the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the zoo (which I’ve heard is excellent). If anyone is interested in joining me, let me know here or by PM. I also always hit bookstores when visiting someplace. Any recommendations for good ones would be appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/69 "2013-03-15T22:19:43Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > …I also always hit bookstores when visiting someplace. Any recommendations for good ones would be appreciated. Here’s the biggest on the East Side: [http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/store/2154](http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/store/2154) Here’s a nicer, smaller and more funky one: [http://www.loganberrybooks.com/](http://www.loganberrybooks.com/) Both would be about an hour’s drive from **BMalion** ’s. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/70 "2013-03-16T12:55:11Z")
The Barnes and Noble at Crocker Park is closer. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/71 "2013-03-16T14:43:22Z")
Not really interested in a chain store like Barnes & Noble. I’d rather check out an independent. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/72 "2013-03-17T01:47:36Z")
This one is a “maybe”. My tenants are moving out of my old Heights-ish house (where there’s been a couple of Dopefests in the past) and I may need to stop by to put in a washer and dryer, to make the place more enticing for any new tenants. The timing may work. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/73 "2013-03-17T02:01:10Z")
Edit: although I was an East Sider in my Cleveland years, when I visit the area, I usually stay with or near my ex in Strongsville. Not far from bmalion’s place. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/74 "2013-03-17T02:13:20Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I also always hit bookstores when visiting someplace. Any recommendations for good ones would be appreciated. No more Joseph-Beth. ☹ Mac’s Backs on Coventry Road in Cleveland Heights. A communist bookstore is just down the street, too. Paper Peddlers on Mayfield Road in South Euclid. Random hours; closed far more often than not, but oddly still in business. Fireside Books in Chagrin Falls. It used to the best place in town for Bill Watterson sightings. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/75 "2013-03-17T03:24:52Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > This one is a “maybe”. My tenants are moving out of my old Heights-ish house (where there’s been a couple of Dopefests in the past) and I may need to stop by to put in a washer and dryer, to make the place more enticing for any new tenants. The timing may work. Ohpleasepleasepleaseplease 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/76 "2013-03-20T22:15:31Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > Ohpleasepleasepleaseplease > 🙂 Seconded. Make it happen, **elmwood**! ---
**Author:** ![pantheon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@pantheon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantheon)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/77 "2013-03-22T11:26:17Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Folks, if there’s the slightest possibility that you might come to the DopeFest, please post here. We’d love to see you! Absolutely nobody knows who I am or has any reason to want to meet me, but I may have to de-cloak just long enough to cure that situation. 🙂 Map says just under three hours if I take the toll (I know, I know- DNFTT), and after all- if I don’t pay no tolls, they don’t get no rolls… Of course I live about 1/2 mile from I-75, so if anyone (like someone coming from Cinci) wanted to potentially share gas costs/tolls or even just hitch a ride from Wapakoneta on North and East, I’m game. ---
**Author:** ![pantheon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@pantheon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantheon)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/78 "2013-03-22T11:30:45Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > I can’t believe I didn’t associate the land of “Cleves” with “Cleveland”. I’m getting really slow on the uptake these days. > > :o Well, to be fair- it’s a trap. He puts his Cleves out there publicly but then gets mad if guys stare at it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/79 "2013-03-24T03:15:55Z")
Hmm. I may make a serious effort to get to this one. I just need to find affordable lodging nearby because I hate making late night drives whenever I can avoid them. I can be a ride for anyone wanting to come from the Columbus area too. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/80 "2013-03-24T19:55:05Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > Hmm. I may make a serious effort to get to this one. I just need to find affordable lodging nearby because I hate making late night drives whenever I can avoid them. > > I can be a ride for anyone wanting to come from the Columbus area too. I have several guest rooms. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889.md?page=5)