Monday, December 8, 2008

The One With the Dinner Party

Instead of doing final revisions for my pending exam, I decided to spend the last bit of time chatting online with Mandrake. After discussing the arts, the royals and various cured meats, the conversation turned to whom I would want to have to my dream dinner party. In composing my list, I chose to only invite the living, as the dead are far worse at conversation.

Here we go:
  • Peter O'Toole- the famous British drunk/actor.
  • Tina Fey- because Sarah Palin wouldn't dine with a Jew.
  • Bob Dylan- my idol.
  • Doris Lessing- fits both the Nobel laureate and Rhodesian quotas.
  • Harold Bloom- the token curmudgeon.
  • Roseanne- why the hell not?
  • Jon Stewart- as the ringmaster.
  • Michelle Obama- girlfriend got it goin' on!
  • David Suzuki- for Canadian content.
  • Scarlett Johansson- no explanation required.
...and of course my Muse, given that she has invaluable experience in telling the help what to do.

I feel that this is a relatively balanced group of people, all of whom I would love to meet. Sushi shall be served.

Please post your own dream dinner party guests, as it's quite the amusing exercise to put one's self through instead of studying.

"I wouldn't mind being a lord"
-Peter O'Toole

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

1) moses
2) phil hartman
3) david palmer
4) 10 year old Hiro
5) Conan O'Brien
6) Lorne Michaels

Megzmax said...

Okay even though we've kinda already discussed this... posting it seems so much better

(1) Anthony Keidis
(2) James Caan
(3) Joaquin Phoenix
(4) Matt Damon
(5) Logan Echolls (the character on V-Mars- not him in real life)
(6) Joy Behar
(7) Deb (from video on trial)
(8) Natalie Portman
(9) Jimmy Kimmel
(10) Michael Cera

Ina Garten would be the chef and Dwight would be the butler.

Unknown said...

1) Lawrence Ferlinghetti
2) Chuck Klosterman
3) Ani DiFranco
4) Robert Munsch
5) Natalie Portman
6) Philip Seymour Hoffman
7) Ellen DeGeneres
8) Ted Kennedy
9) Kit Pearson
10)Art Garfunkel

Bobby said...

Murder Mystery dinner party!
(They are all still living too)

1) Quincy ME
2) Columbo (Peter Falk)
3) Det Stabler
4) Dwight Schrute (former Scranton Volunteer Sherrif
5) Constable Benton Fraser (Due South)
6) Adrian Monk
7) Dave Starsky
8) Mr. T
9) Jessica Fletcher
10) Lieutenant Horatio Caine (Gets killed after first course - crazy sunglass incident)

Anonymous said...

1) margaret atwood
2) elaine showalter
3) cher
4) george clooney
5) barbara walters
6) jason mraz
8) neil patrick harris
9) tom robbins

Anonymous said...

bad news paula- moses is dead

Unknown said...

(1)Tom Petty
(2)Quincy Jones
(3)Michael Jackson
(4)John Irving
(5)Hank Moody
(6)Barney Stinson
(7)Rachel McAdams
(8)Whoopi Goldberg

Anonymous said...

to those of you who have commented on the death of moses i have a few things to say:
1) brian said that HE was only inviting living people to his dinner party. i don't see why my fantasy dinner party must subscribe to his rules. "im the sassy one in the group who plays by her own rules" anyways so TAKE THAT.
2) must i really get into gilgul neshamot? the transmigration of souls? really? REALLY? moses is the man. the dude went totally "panim el panim" with the kadosh baruch hu, i think that warrants an invitation.

plus i think when the mashiach comes ull feel mighty bad about your 'moses snub'