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NaBloPoMo Q&A 9: Six for Dinner

In Interviews, NaBloPoMo, Q&A on 28 November 2007 with 7 comments

Myla asked:

If you could have a dinner party and invite any six people from history (past or present), who would you invite, and why?

It was too much effort to try and consider everyone who ever lived, and dead people are boring at parties anyway, so I limited myself to the living. I’d invite:

  1. Woody Allen, so I can kick him in the nuts for teaching a generation of Jewish boys that they should act like whiny neurotic schleps until a beautiful woman loves them (even if it did work for me).
  2. Tom Waits, so I can stammer and blush and giggle like a schoolgirl.
  3. Annie Leibovitz, to tell us stories about shooting all those iconic photos.
  4. Chuck Palahniuk, to see if he’s cheered up at all now that he’s famous.
  5. Jon Stewart, so I can thank him, and thank him, and thank him some more.
  6. You. Yes, you. Can you be here by five?

Thanks for the question, Myla. What six people would YOU invite? Leave a comment!

7 Comments

Can I bring my famous fennel & watercress salad?

– ro on 28 November 2007 @ 5pm

oh and I “commented” on my blog.

– ro on 28 November 2007 @ 5pm

Tom Waits would be top of my list, though I agree, I think words would be useless. A musician friend of mine in England went out to LA to record for a friend who happened to be friends with Kathleen Brennan… they all had lunch together and Kathleen offered to take my friend back to their ‘farm’ to meet Tom. He declined, deciding that to meet this particular idol would be too much for him.

– Miles on 28 November 2007 @ 6pm

Derek, Heather, Bug, Chieka, Spoo, and… oh, Lyle. Lyle would be my date (don’t tell my dog. or my husband.)

– Julie on 29 November 2007 @ 7am

1) Douglas Adams
2) Neil Gaiman
3) Harlan Ellison
4) Jon Stewart
5) Stephen Colbert
6) David Brin

That would be a hell of a meal.

– Adam Rakunas on 29 November 2007 @ 9am

Awesome. Am running late but will for sure answer this later tonight ;)

– myla on 30 November 2007 @ 10am

1 - Alfred Steiglitz - I would slip him my pathetic portfolio - I know I’d be in for a tongue lashing but at least I could say I was rejected by the father of modern photography.

2 - Stephen Fry - funny, charming, talented and frighteningly clever - I’m sure he’d my the most entertaining guest.

3 - Richard Thompson - possibly the best songwriter of our generation - always has something interesting to say when interviewed.

4 - Glen Hansard - love The Frames, love Once, love his obvious passion for what he does.

5 - Sebastião Salgado - he believes that he can very literally change the world with his photography and why not?

6 - Eddie Izzard - Funny man I’ve ever seen

– Martin Taylor on 27 December 2007 @ 11am

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