Just For Fun
You're planning a dinner party. You can invite anyone--dead or alive.
Let's keep it intimate.
Up to a dozen guests.
Who do you invite?
And if you're feeling creative, what do you serve?
Me? I am inviting:
Viktor Frankl
Albert Einstein
Paul Erdos (see blog post a couple down, called More Than One)
Antoine de Saint Exupery
The Dalai Lama
Jesus
Buddha
Thich Nhat Hanh
Michelangelo
Christopher Hitchens (just to stir things up)
Jospeh Campbell
David Letterman ('cause I think he's hilarious)
I'd serve sushi--just 'cause I like it. And rice. And a lot of wine.
I'd like to think we'd end the evening playing poker and having a few laughs while cigars are smoked.
Anyone care to play?
22 comments:
Interesting choices. I'd add Abraham Lincoln, Thomas More, and Rachel Weisz.
Fun game!
Stephen:
Ah, yes, for you, Rachel would have to be there. :-)
E
Ooh, this is a toughie. I can't pretend to be anywhere near as cerebral as you.
Okay, I got it.
I'm inviting:
1. Lucille Ball
2. My late Auntie Vera, an awesome chick who got a tattoo when she turned 80
3. Lily Tomlin
4. Vivienne Leigh
5. Erica Orloff
6. Spyscribbler
7. A masseuse
8. A manicure and pedicure person
9, 10, 11, A trio of Chippendale dancers to wait on us.
12. Anne Frank
I think I'll serve fondue, and of course margaritas by the bucketful. =)
(Jude and Ewoh would have been on the list too, but ya know, I decided to keep it a chick fling...except for the eye-candy...that's not to imply you aren't pleasant to look at Jude and Ewoh...ah, never mind. just digging myself in deeper, as usual.)
Lainey!!!
I love your list!!!!!!!!! I am SO there, Babe!
xo
E
Lainey:
P.S. Auntie Vera sounds great. Maybe we should also have a tattoo artist so we can all get matching ones to commemorate the event.
Gerard Butler and a pint of whipped cream. No one else is invited.
A tattoo artist! Absolutely. Awesome idea, Erica.
ps, Auntie V didn't get any little ankle tattoo either, she got a big honkin' detailed thing up her forearm, rose vines. She said she'd travelled a winding road and that it was her "Long and winding rose"
gave the other aunties and my mom a colossal BIRD. hee hee
Heather:
LOL!
Wow . . . see, I wasn't thinking outside the box. I really, really, really like your invite list.
E
Lainey:
I like Vera more and more.
:-)
E
LOL, Lainey! That's all right. I'll make mine a manly night (except for the three Playboy bunnies serving cocktails and hors d'oeuvres).
My party would be an all-night jam session:
Paul Mccartney (vocals, electric bass)
Stevie Ray Vaughn (vocals, guitar)
Elton John (vocals, Steinway grand)
Paul Rogers (vocals)
Eric Clapton (vocals, guitar)
Miles Davis (trumpet)
Elvis Presley (vocals)
Sam Cooke (vocals)
John Coltrane (sax)
Jude Hardin (drums)
I'll have Emeril Lagasse and crew in the kitchen. They can surprise us. :)
LOL.. Lainey thanks for the almost invite. I might just crash the party to make chocolate creme brulee for you and your guests, and then give foot massages to all.
For my list... not all are "celebrities" but it's my list so there :)
My late father
My late brother
Stevie Ray Vaughn
John Lennon
Robinson Jeffers
Walt Whitman
Ernest Hemmingway
Erica and Lainey
My fabulous wife
Robin Williams
Neil Gaiman
Ha! You're in, Ewoh.
and btw, I think if any man could carry and deliver a baby, it would be you ;-)
Hey Ewoh:
Sounds like an awesome party. I am there!
E
Awww thanks Lainey. Do you have the ramekins for the creme brulee or do I need to bring mine?
When my wife was pregnant with our first, we worked together. I was able to be with her every step of the way through the pregnancy and delivery. I went to all the the doctor visits. I was in the delivery room and cut the umbilical cord. It was amazing to be that close to the whole process. I can see that it would be difficult, but I believe that I could do it.
Sounds like an idea for a new story...
I'm inviting some of the aliens from bar in Star Wars, Luke Skywalker to keep them in line, The American Werewolf in London, my editor because I've never met her, Buffy the Vampire Slayer to keep the werewolf in line, Oprah Winfrey, Alice Walker, Alan Rickman, and the entire cast from Harry Potter. Oooooo, that includes Alan Rickman twice. ***squeeeeeg*** That's probably more than twelve, so I'll probably need a bigger house.
As for what we're having, slow-roasted prime rib with au jus and carmelized onions.
Marcia:
Sounds like a very hoppin' party.
E
P.S. Can you clone Alan Rickman another time for me?
Fantasy Dinner:
John Singer Sargent
The Dalai Lama
My late brother
Grace Kelly
Ella Fitzgerald
Erica Orloff
Stephen Parrish
George Clooney, sigh
Miss Snark
Hubbard Street Dancers
Robin Williams
J. D. Salinger
Not Rachel Weisz
Tena:
LOL.
Now are you not inviting Rachel so you and Stephen can get together? ;-)
E
No comment;-)
I'd invite:
Anne Friend (a wonderful Quaker, now deceased, who was an amazing woman, smart, funny and cool. She dyed her hair blue and red at age 68 and once spent a whole year speaking in thees and thous).
My husband Noah, who I married for his brain. Charm, kindness and the rest came with :)
Viggo Mortensen, because he has an interesting world view and runs a press.
Chon Duc, a Buddhist nun I know.
Mary Castillo, best friend and great storyteller
My sister Lara, a chemistry professor and all-around Great Brain
Neil Gaiman
Joss Whedon
Eleanor Roosevelt
Edward R. Murrow
Albert Einstein
Erica Orloff
And I would serve Rajma (my kidney bean curry recipe) with basmati rice and mango pudding for dessert, which my husband wouldn't eat because he hates pudding (unnatural).
I love people's lists!
Jen
j.k.:
That sounds like a totally awesome party and I am MOST HONORED to get an invite with such wonderful company. And food!
E
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