my question: what twelve people, dead or alive, would you have to dinner?
mamie:
geoffery chaucer
michelle obama
elford chapman morgan (my father's father, whom i've never met)
hart crane
sisyphus
ellen degeneres
winston churchill
scott avett
ralph ellison
elizabeth bishop
david sedaris
drew barrymore
jay-z
meryl streep
hannah:
marquez
calvino
johnny depp
humphrey bogart
my paternal grandfather
truman capote
robert downey jr.
sean penn
marilynne robinson
john stewart
matt laur
tom cruise
lauren bacall
i think we've both kept in mind "dinner party." it's not that we wouldn't want amy winehouse, jesus, eudora welty, james wright, and gertrude stein there...but who would look after them?
also, neither of us could think of a single woman we'd ever met or loved. it was this weird freeze. and then, for some reason, salma hayak came blazing back into our memory at the same time...
oh, and it turned out to be thirteen. alternate officers and what have you.
hannah: what subject, other than literature/writing (oh, because THAT we've mastered), would you profoundly like to know?
hannah: didn't we both think of astronomy? and then you backed out in favor of home ec or something? because astronomy made you panic? i might stick to astronomy. no, i want languages. or music. physics. no, definitely astronomy.
mamie: asshole. i wanted home ec because i can't clean a piece of monkfish or sew a dress hem. anyway, i say pre-colonial history. the story before the tyrant's story. fo sho.
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My list would probably change every hour if I thought about it. But here's a first run:
Jessica Simpson
Gandhi
Axl Rose
G W Bush
Tom Waits
Jesus’ mom
The “Where’s the beef” lady.
Ralph Macchio
Buddha
Pauly Shore
Imelda Marcos
James Lipton to preside over the dinner.
you're such a moron. ralph macchio is an obvious plus, only if flanked by scott baio and corey haim.
but pauly shore? just the thought of him sends me to drink.
and who's the moron? scott avett. b/c you think he's cute and want to have new/blue grass babies with him? wtf? lame.
he ALREADY HAS bluegrass babies. i think he's brilliant. he's also a PAINTER. bet you didn't know THAT.
but you don't NEED to clean monkfish or sew a dress hem. sally and i can teach you how to knit.
so, at eric's party, ghandi, buddha, tom waits' and james lipton are handing out the kool-aid?
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