# TrannaDope! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 28, 2004, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617 "2004-10-28T04:11:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![badmana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@badmana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badmana)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/61 "2004-11-15T22:54:23Z")
You can pen me in. My GF is in pencil though. I know the area although never been to that particular restauant. There’s an underground parking lot right next door. The Metro Toronto Convention Centre is across the street (IIRC $5 parking on weekends underground next to the CBC building). So do these meets usually have an itinerary? Or is the meet going to be held completely in the restuarant? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/62 "2004-11-15T23:56:52Z")
> [@badmana](#): > > So do these meets usually have an itinerary? Or is the meet going to be held completely in the restuarant? We can always start at Lone Star and work our way from there. 🙂 **Updated list:** _Ink:_ Cerowyn Eats\_Crayons matt\_mcl Gadfly Sunspace badmana Kythereia _Pencil:_ Booker57 Lissla Lissar badmana wolfstu RickJay Dante badmana’s GF Who am I missing? ---
**Author:** ![bashere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@bashere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bashere)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/63 "2004-11-16T15:11:28Z")
It is extremely likely that I will be attending with Zber, but I’m still pencilled, I’m afraid. ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/64 "2004-11-16T16:34:57Z")
You can pencil me in as well. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/65 "2004-11-25T02:21:34Z")
Dang it! You know, if the search functions here were working properly I might have stumbled upon this thread sooner. _grumble grumble_. As it is, just yesterday I committed to something else on the 11th. Ah well. Plus, the Eonwe-mobile has been acting a little odd lately, so it’s probably best to keep the 1,000 mile weekend jaunts to a minimum. Hello to everyone I won’t get to meet or see again. And, here’s to thinking about another fest sometime when it’s warm. 🙂 I second the request for pictures from the _last_ fest. Also, **Booker57** , if you’re having money issues I could mail you the Canadian dollar bill you gave me from this summer. 🙂 I keep it in my wallet and wow all the ladies with it (unfortunately it doesn’t seem to do much for wooing the ladies). ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/66 "2004-11-25T15:58:40Z")
I don’t know it I can make it. ☹ My MIL is planning a dinner for the next Saturday, and I don’t know if I can take two Saturdays in a row off. I’ll keep you posted. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/67 "2004-11-26T07:35:21Z")
_bump!_ Is anything else doing, you guys? A visit somewhere (Queen’s Park, Casa Loma, the Bata museum, the subway…?) It would just be cool to do more than one thing after coming all that distance… ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/68 "2004-11-26T07:53:07Z")
Have fun you guys! **Kythera** and **Sunspace** , can I borrow the “How to Host An Awesome Dopefest”-manual when you two are done with it? I’ll need it for [Eurodope](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=286989) in January. Oh, and **wolfstu** is every bit as gracious a guest as he says he is. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/69 "2004-11-26T12:03:31Z")
There’s a manual? We’re supposed to write a manual? :eek: [sub]whisper whisper[/sub] _ahem_ We would be perfectly willing to advise the beautiful **Maastricht** on hosting a dopefest [sub]if, afterwards, we can remember what we did[/sub]. **Matt** , I’d be happy to do something else. I haven’t been to a museum lately either. Perhaps on Saturday afternoon before we meet at the restaurant? What time do you think you’d be arriving? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/70 "2004-11-26T19:29:32Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > **Matt** , I’d be happy to do something else. I haven’t been to a museum lately either. Perhaps on Saturday afternoon before we meet at the restaurant? What time do you think you’d be arriving? It would depend entirely on what we were planning to do. I need another subway excursion (north Yonge line and a bit more detailed view of Danforth and Scarborough); and for museums, I’m open to suggestions. **Eats** , would I be able to enjoy your hospitality once more? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/71 "2004-11-26T20:09:56Z")
I’d be happy to do another Saturday-afternoon (or even Sunday) Subway Saunter. 🙂 I just thought you’d had your fill of T.O.'s subway, is all. [Museums](http://www.utoronto.ca/museum/museums/museum/museumlist.html)… how about the Museum of Television? I _think_ they’re open on the weekend. Royal Ontario Museum, Bata Shoe Museum, Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, the Powerplant, and of course the Art Gallery of Ontario (right next to the Tabletop). ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/72 "2004-11-26T20:40:03Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > **Eats** , would I be able to enjoy your hospitality once more? Yup! And I think I still have some of your shampoo here. (Though I recently did a cupboard lceanout, so maybe not… I’ll let you know.) ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/73 "2004-11-26T20:46:55Z")
Yay! Thanks, **Eats**. What’s playing at the ROM? And I’ve never been to the AGO… ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/74 "2004-11-26T20:52:14Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > and of course the Art Gallery of Ontario (right next to the Tabletop). The Modigliani exhibit is great (a touch pricey) but when I was at the AGO a few weeks ago, I found it quite messy. Areas were closed for renovation, and the area where they usually have the neat modern art stuff was really sub-par. Overall, if not for Modigliani, it would have been a downright unpleasant experience. Then again, that was a few weeks ago. Perhaps they are done with all the strange stuff they were doing. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/75 "2004-11-26T20:56:49Z")
Oh, the ROM is being renovated too. They are remaining open although some of the fun things - like the bat cave ☹ - are closed. They currently have some exhibit going on about pearls. [This is a list of the closed section](http://www.rom.on.ca/visitors/temporarygalleryclosings.php). Dang it! It’s like all of Toronto is under construction! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/76 "2004-11-26T20:57:56Z")
Letsee… The ROM: [http://www.rom.on.ca/](http://www.rom.on.ca/) Pearls, Chinese textiles, the expansion, tallgrass prarie, Greek and Etruscan. When I was there a year ago, we saw Egyptian, medieval armour, and birds, plus the dinosaurs. The AGO: [http://www.ago.net/](http://www.ago.net/) The big-name exhibit is Modigliani. There are their ongoing exhibits (Canadiana, etc), but this one looks interesting: Mark Lombardi > [@](#): > > Explore the work of American artist Mark Lombardi (1951–2000), whose unique drawing practice charted the labyrinthine relationships between key, often shadowy, players in world political/financial events. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/77 "2004-11-27T00:22:34Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Explore the work of American artist Mark Lombardi (1951–2000), whose unique drawing practice charted the labyrinthine relationships between key, often shadowy, players in world political/financial events. Ugh. Unfortunately they mean “charted” quite [literally](http://www.ago.net/www/picture.two/lombardi2.jpg). Each is very interesting if you spend a _lot_ of time with each one, but I found in a gallery context I actually found it [hard on the eyes](http://www.estorescanada.com/agogalleryshop/products/lombardiCat.html). They are literally charts of fine lines. If you’re in the gallery to see Modigliani, stop by, but I wouldn’t make a special trip. The AGO has a bad habit of hanging works so that you often see your own reflection in the glass of the frame interfere with the painting/photo/drawing you are trying to see (I was _livid_ when I went to see the Cindy Sherman exhibit because many of her photos are really dark and I mostly got to see myself as if looking at black glass.) I started to go through the Lombardi exhibit and gave up because it was just not worth the headcahe to squint at the fine lines through my reflection. **Matt** I DO have your shampoo still. As well as some of my mom’s Oil of Olay body wash in case you’re feeling wrinkey. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/78 "2004-11-28T03:09:11Z")
Guys, unless I get paid at the end of the month like I’m sposta, or I can get a lift from someone, … well, I’ll see what I can do. Matt ---
**Author:** ![MrFantsyPants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@MrFantsyPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFantsyPants)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/79 "2004-11-28T03:30:53Z")
Well, hey, if there is something happening during the day, myself, MrsFantsyPants, and BabyFantsyPants might join in. Our evenings are booked solid by the teething fairy though. ---
**Author:** ![uncleangus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/779978/32.png) [@uncleangus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uncleangus)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617/80 "2004-11-28T04:02:36Z")
Bizarre, I just start posting here and you guys organize a Trawna fest for me! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trannadope/271617.md?page=5)