Dinner Party Guest list

I think this thread belongs in the "Free for All" forum

 

1.George W. Bush
2.Maria Sharapova
3.Ashley Olsen (Mary-Kate is the crackhead anorexic one, right?)
4.Tommy Franks
5.John McCain
6.Ted Nugent
7.Liam and Noel Gallagher
8.Terrell Owens
9.Tony Blair
10.Jean-Claude Van Damme

 

I'd probably invite a bunch of people whose names I could spell correctly.

 

I'd invite Bill Gates, because this dinner would be at Per Se, and someone has to pick up the tab.

 

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to obie again.


Seriously, though, I think I'd have the following:

1. Pol Pot
2. Adolph Hitler
3. Josef Stalin
4. Idi Amin
5. Charles Manson
6. Vlad Dracul

Topic of conversation: "What the hell was all that about, anyway???"

 

Provided that Gates has the clout to get you in. Maybe you could sit at the bar, or slum across the hall at Masa.

My wife asked me if we could go to Per Se for her birthday at the end of January. I told her it was either that or renovating our kitchen. She's mulling it over.

 

Hunter S Thompson
James Carville
Lee Atwater
Machiavelli
Teddy Roosevelt


and just for sh!ts and giggles, Anna Nicole Smith.

 

At Le Bar Lyonnais downstairs in Le Bec Fin (or at a buy-out of the Basement Room at MOMO in London, I can't choose between the two), the following would order with me, off of the bistro menu:

(1) George W. Bush
(2) Jesus of Nazareth (next to Bush)
(3) bell hooks
(4) Judith Miller
(5) Riane Eisler
(6) Gabon President El Hadj Omar Bongo
(7) Ward Churchill
(8) Amy Goodman
(9) Ann Coulter (next to Bush)
(10) porn star Amanda Warren (next to hooks)

 

I have the reservations already. And I'm not very important.

I'll let you know if its worth it.

 

For future reference, did you call two months ahead at exactly 10 am, or did you luck out into some random date / time?

Please do. Are you doing lunch or dinner?

 

If you're prepared to be flexible (like changing your party to four, rather than two), you can get someting for 1.5 months in advance. However, calling really early does help, yeah.

Dinner. Actually, now that I think about it, I might be able to get away with an expensed lunch there...............

 

That's a dinner party I'd like to attend.

 

No, but he's not quite, ah, dead, either.

 

I will invite him too, but I will make sure that I collect the $25 million reward after the dinner.

 

Ten well-known individuals? That are still alive? It would be tough to come up with ten with whom the dinner would be peaceful, never mind that I'd enjoy dinner with. We'll try, though:

Joschka Fischer
Snoop Dogg
Norah Jones
Peter Camejo
Starhawk
Jim Collins
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Medea Benjamin
Rowan Williams (The Archbishop of Cantebury)
Carly Fiorina

 

Jimmy Carter
Ian MacKaye
Max Bretos & Allen Hopkins (of course!)
Pele
Xzibit (why not, seems like a fun guy)
Jesse Ventura
Neil Armstrong

I'd like to have added Christopher Reeve, but I'm a few weeks too late on that.

On a sort of similar note, we had Adrian Cronauer (the real guy from "Good Morning Vietnam") over for dinner with my family right after the movie came out. That was interesting, he had many great stories.

 

I'd invite the cop Herr Fischer kicked in the head wearing jackboots and let him get a little pay-back come dessert-time.

W.
Powell
The Dulles Brothers
Eddie Murphy(circa 82)
Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
John Boyd
Enrico Pullazzo

 

One more:

Frank Lloyd Wright

 

Ty Murray
Jean-Luc Godard
Cormac McCarthy
Lee Kline (The Criterion DVD guy)
Cate Blanchet
Dwight Yoakum
Bobby Fisher
Paulina Rubio
Bill Clinton
Fidel Castro

 

You want to hear his rants on how the clockmakers are you to get him? (I'm not kidding, either.)

 

I like to play chess after dinner. We'll stick a sock in his mouth until then.