Community Run Forums for Starship SF - Getting Ready for the 'Thon

Reply #15 - Feb 10^th, 2014 at 7:08pm

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I never see it mentioned in what to bring but a great thing to have along is a small flashlight.
Remember even between the movies it's kind of dark if you're looking for something you dropped.

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Reply #16 - Feb 10^th, 2014 at 10:00pm

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Right on Bunnyman!
I've learned. It's amazing how sure that you know where something is, and it isn't there.

I'd also like to speak to the advantages of sleep.
At the Cleveland Marathon (admittedly of 30 hours duration), I learned that trying to gut it out most often results in dozing through the most interesting flic on the schedule. LA and others are probably more skilled than I in controlling the tides of Morpheus. Congrats. I and most others aint.
My 29 year old son skipped the last Cleveland Marathon as he had "Slept through half of the movies at the whole ---" the previous year.
Most people doze. So plan ahead. Consciously choose a film or two that you have seen or even enjoyed and stay awake for the joy of the new.

Thars only two possibilities:Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are,or we're the most intelligent life in the universe.Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought-WaltKelly

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Reply #17 - Feb 12^th, 2014 at 4:31am

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Stuart wrote on Feb 10^th, 2014 at 4:29pm:

One year I ate a whole package of chocolate covered espresso beans. The combination of tired and wired made me feel ill enough to go home, where I was still too spent to stay awake and too jittery to fall asleep. For me it was the worst 'thon (SF21, I think).

Yeah, at SF/24 I pretty much had a cup of coffee after every movie up until 10:00 pm or so. Then I realized what the hell I'd done and backed off. Was wired the entire night. I nearly made it but crashed just as Dark City was starting. Watched the light swing back and forth across the bathroom and that was it for me. Staggered home on the T, lesson learned!

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Reply #18 - Feb 12^th, 2014 at 7:38am

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If you plan on waiting in line, dress warmly and in layers.

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Reply #19 - Feb 13^th, 2014 at 12:54am

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As I noted, it isn't for everyone.

BUT

, I do want to caution those, particularly newcomers, from GOING INTO the Marathon with the attitude that "I'm not going to make it! No way! I'm sleeping!"

I truly believe that is a self-fullfilling defeatist attitude. WHY would you look at the schedule and say, for example,
"2001 is on at 2am. I love that film, but, there is NO way I'm going to last until then! No Way!"

If 2001 is indeed one of your all-time favorites, why wouldn't you so psych yourself up that you just run on adreneline?

Like I said, if you can't you can't. Just don't make it a fait accompli by giving up BEFORE you even enter the theater is my advice.

pogo wrote on Feb 10^th, 2014 at 10:00pm:

...I'd also like to speak to the advantages of sleep.
At the Cleveland Marathon (admittedly of 30 hours duration), I learned that trying to gut it out most often results in dozing through the most interesting flic on the schedule. LA and others are probably more skilled than I in controlling the tides of Morpheus. Congrats. I and most others aint.

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Reply #20 - Feb 13^th, 2014 at 5:26pm

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Lile wrote on Feb 12^th, 2014 at 7:38am:

If you plan on waiting in line, dress warmly and in layers.

At one time there was a group of fans who'd be in line the NIGHT BEFORE the marathon.
Back when we were at the Coolidge Corner my friends & I would stay down the street at the Holiday Inn in order to get to the marathon early. We'd swing by the theater on the way in and see folks in line. One year there was sub-zero windchill but still fans were there. Contained in insulated pods, but still there in line waiting.
And you remember what a wind tunnel the Coolidge waiting area was.
Any brave marathoids still getting in line that early?

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Reply #21 - Feb 13^th, 2014 at 6:52pm

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These day I aim for 8:00 / 8:30ish.

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Reply #22 - Feb 13^th, 2014 at 10:11pm

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Ah yes the Damnation Alley years as I named them. There were several groups vying to be first and I admit it got a little out of hand but it did lead to the formation of a terrific coalition and all of this has morphed into the Dick Miller Fan Club. Soem years we had tents, some years we had industrial propane heaters. Several times we were mistaken for homeless folks. You will still find most of us in the front row and many of us still attend. Some of us still get there early enough to be first. How early? That would be telling.

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Reply #23 - Feb 15^th, 2014 at 5:34pm

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Couple of recommendations for where to get food quickly (i.e. 20 minutes or less between things ) -- Boston Burger Co. just across from the theater, or if you're not of the carnivorous persuasion, the Blue Shirt cafe at the Davis sq end of Highland has wraps and cookies and similar things, lot of vegetarian options). Someone I was talking to at the 'fest also recommended Cafe Barada -- on Mass Ave at the other end of Dover St.

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Reply #24 - Feb 15^th, 2014 at 9:15pm

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Café Barrada Nikto sounds like it would be the perfect place for us.

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Reply #25 - Feb 15^th, 2014 at 9:17pm

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My crew should be in line shortly after 8:30 am

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