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Get ready for yet another huge weekend in Columbus! Hopefully the predicted rain and thunderstorms won’t keep the fun from happening.
First up is Comfest, the annual weekend-long party in Goodale Park. Always plenty of music, booths, booze, and food to be had there. We’ve also got Columbus Pride Weekend with a whole slew of events all over town including a huge parade on Saturday. The Origins Game Fair is also continuing through the weekend at the Convention Center, for your dose of gaming goodness.
On Sunday, Bat N Rouge takes place at the Africentric High School Field just south of Downtown, while the German Village Society’s 49th Annual Haus und Garten Tour takes place nearby. And if all of that’s not enough for you, and you’ve still got some leftover energy on Monday, there’s a Bourbon Tasting event going on at Morton’s Steakhouse Downtown.
Enjoy your weekend, Columbus!
I think they should move Comfest to the Ohio State Fairgrounds.
I think they should move Comfest to the Ohio State Fairgrounds.
worst suggestion ever…. comfest is about the community… fairgrounds don’t exactly scream “community” more of “big open space”. I love Goodale Park, and I love Comfest! Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke.
I think they should move Comfest to the Ohio State Fairgrounds.
um, no?
I’d be all for extending Comfest a few days and moving to a lighter schedule, i think that Comfest is a part of Goodale Park and vice versa. Moving the festival would make it something else.
On a different note, who here would like to see the “More Than Music Festival” resurrected?
I’m just saying. Comfest is just a glorified state fair. Why not.
Open mouth and insert foot! ASAP……
the second you use a facility like that it costs way too much money for the event to be free. Thus taking the community out of the festival.
That’s quite the stretch.
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On a different note, who here would like to see the “More Than Music Festival” resurrected?
I would like to see that. It was a shame when the last one was canceled at the last minute.
I think they should move Comfest to the Ohio State Fairgrounds.
well i do think that the festival has really grown and the neighborhood might not be able to sustain it in the future if it continues to grow. but i couldn’t really see moving it anywhere else. the location is really perfect for the event. i drove over there this morning, the grass is in rough shape from all the rain but im sure it will come back.
On Saturday mid-day I walked by our team kickball practice spot in the SW corner of the park. It was completely empty. We could have practiced there if it weren’t for the rain.
A lot of people congregate around the booths and stages, but there are plenty of open spaces still left in the park during the festivities.
I think they should move Comfest to the Ohio State Fairgrounds.
You just made me throw up in my mouth.
That’s the most horrifying idea ever.
I think they should move Comfest to the Ohio State Fairgrounds.
YYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And have it patrolled by CPD in full on SWAT gear, oh yessssssssssssss, I can feel the love now!!!!!! good times….
I think they should move Comfest to the Ohio State Fairgrounds.
It would be a perfect location to display the famous “Marijuana Cow” sculpture.
I had hear a rumor that there’s been a petition circulating to end comfest. Most peoples reaction was “Again?” so, it didn’t seem like anything new – it does seem to put “pressure” on organizers to keep it wrangled in.
I didn’t see as many “trashed” people this year as previous years.
It does raise the question of “When and will Comfest reach critical Mass”? Goodale does take a beating – and I understand that Comfest does give grants for improvements/maintenace of the park. – With the rain and Mud, this year seemed especially brutal. I heard numberous complaints from the cleanup/recycling committee about the number of glass bottles (alcohol) in the park and the danger is posed.
Fact: Did you know Goodale park is the 3rd oldest park in the Nation? Founded in 1851.
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On a different note, who here would like to see the “More Than Music Festival” resurrected?
I would like to see that. It was a shame when the last one was canceled at the last minute.
Looks like the More Than Music Festival website has changed a bit.
Link: MoreThanMusic.com
I’ve attended the early MTM fests that started in Dayton and some of the ones here in Columbus. They were for the most part a blast, and a great opportunity to check out music you would have never heard otherwise and of course, to network with folks with similar political and ideological agendas. The music was the gathering force for this event. The philosophy gave it depth.
I don’t think it should be brought back. There was a perfect storm that made the event happen and what it was in the first place. You could look at a few things like the evolution of the music scene at that time from straight edge to emo back to screamo and back and forth through a ton of other musical derivatives with a few commons threads. The music was just one facet. You could look at the driving scene politics of the time and you could look at about 100 other factors. The attitudes of the people behind it, etc..
Trying to recreate an event like that feels a little Epcot like to me. It will never have the authenticity of the original event no matter how hard you try because the creative catalyst for the event is nostalgia. A creative force that ages you at least ten years and is generally not as effective. Look how foolish the effort was to bring back “woodstock”.
This same personal philosophy is why I think Comfest should die. It’s outlived it’s original intention and is an event driven forward by it’s nostalgia for the past. It is inevitable that it will continue to drift from the original vision due to the scale the event continues to gain.
There are plenty of perfect storms waiting out there for new blood to do something different. I guess it’s harder to do something new versus continually repackaging the past.
SO,
Next year, pride will be the weekend BEFORE comfest? What does everyone think of the split?
Personally, it’ll be nice because I can’t do ANYTHING for pride due to my participation in Comfest, so, it’ll be nice to do the parade thing, go out, get blotto, dance to untz, untz, untz, untz, untz, untz… hit Baton Rouge w/ the dogs.
I think it’ll have a “small” effect on Comfest – there are people that drive from surrounding states to hit pride (as I’m sure they do comfest) and some of them stumble through. I don’t think as many would make the 2nd trip back.
I would LOVE to see A bigger Cota presence for “park and ride” – extended hours, dedicated busses/routes/locations – helps with Parking and People. – Maybe even something coordinated by the people in support of light rail – a booth, a presence, maybe putting something like this together.
i think the whole thing came off smoothly.
music was good and diverse as always…
parked on second both days (short walk)
beers didn’t take too long to get
bathrooms were plentiful…
food was good, not too spendy…
weather wasn’t too bad…
only complaint was that sunday ended too early.
on a side note – i walked through the park around 3am on saturday morning and it was eerily empty. not a soul did i see.
Jon Myers doesn’t believe in evolution? :wink:
Jon Myers doesn’t believe in evolution? :wink:
As a good Chreestran it’s hard for me to think that man somehow came from a monkey. :shock:
Yeah, I do believe in evolution. I also think things can just as easily, if not more easily devolve. Especially when they get stuck in “the way things were”.
I guess I’m too young to remember what the first comfest was like.
Weren’t the neighborhoods that surround the park (i.e. the “community” in ComFest) slums 20 years ago? As the community changes, isn’t it expected that that festival that celebrates said community would change as well?
The weather and my bum leg kinda blew the 72 hour party weekend for me this year, but I would be sad if there were too many changes made that would cause me to be any less excited about ComFest 2009 than I was for this weekend.