You are planning a dinner party. Who would you invite?

I am?

Dan Fogelberg, Steve Goodman, Lowell George, Del Shannon, Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Lennon. I’m in a music mood. Oh, and my man Thelonious Monk. And, for shits and grins Johnny Wadd Holmes.

We’re done for awhile, the holiday season is over. We limit winter parties to a small group of friends and our families. We live in a sort of remote place and we try to encourage our guests to leave soon after the party. It can get a little crowded. Fun but crowded.

@TheLoneMonk you got the idea, thanks!!

Kurt Vonnegut, Bob Marley, Mark Twain, Roald Dahl, John Steinbeck, George Orwell, Charles Darwin, Captain Cook, and some other world explorer that traveled extensively and did cool things…

@lilikoi : I would so love to have dinner with Vonnegut!

@TheLoneMonk Yes he is the first person I thought of…I think that would be pretty amazing.

not accounting for barriers or manageable conversation, and in no particular order…

Erwin Rommel
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Plato
Homer
Hor-Aha, Menes (or whatever his name was)
Alexander the Great
Gautama Buddha
Niccolò Machiavelli
John Stuart Mill
Leonardo da Vinci

@wonderingwhy Oh da Vinci! That’s a great one!

@lilikoi I think de Vinci and Einstein would make a great combination for a dinner party. deVinci knows everything and Einstein has a good sense of humor.

Bob Marley, John Lennon, Einstein, Carl Sagan, Warhol, William S. Burroughs, Dali, Bette Paige, Socrates, and George Carlin.

And, I’d offer them all a stiff drink upon arrival. Heh. :)

1. Sid Vicious
2. Arthur Lee
3. Alexander III of Macedon
4. Jesus of Nazareth
5. Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullāh
6. Winston Churchill
7. Tutankhamun
8. Kurt Donald Cobain
9. John Winston Ono Lennon
10. Richard Burton

Leonardo da Vinci
Wiliam Shakespeare
Groucho Marx
Virginia Woolf
Jane Austen
Charles Darwin
Petrarch
King David
Plato
Eleanor of Aquitaine

I thought Woody Allen was still alive?

@lilikoi You’re right; his invitation has just been rescinded. I went to the B list invitee instead.

Frank Sinatra, Orson Welles and Marlon Brando. The stories these guys would have to tell !!!

Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
William Randolph Hearst (I heard he threw some wicked parties)
Andy Kaufman
George Burns
Gilda Radner
Nina Simone
Richard Pryor
Al Capone
Teddy Roosevelt

@jonsblond Yeah I bet – Isn’t WR Hearst the guy that had the big castle south of Big Sur? It was quite exquisite. Al Capone might try to knock you off…

Baha’u’llah
‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Joseph Smith
Alice Paul
Margaret Sanger
Kurt Cobain
Lao Tzu
Elia Kazan
James Dean
Leonardo daVinci

Frank Zappa, Kurt Vonnegut, Einstein, Anne Frank, The 3 Stooges, Mozart, Paul Adams, Lucille Ball.

I’d start out by inviting my own triumvirate:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Caesar Augustus, and Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus.
I’d invite Casey Stengel just to hear The Old Professor tell his stories in Stengel-ese. 
Benjamin Franklin was one of the most brilliant men ever to grace this planet.
John Lennon would be a must invite. Perhaps I could convince him to perform a few Beatle songs. 
Thomas Jefferson was another genius I would love to discuss science and philosophy with.
It would be hard to resist inviting Jesus Christ. I’d like to see what kind of dude he really was, also if he actually existed at all.
George Carlin would crack everyone up. (Well, maybe not Christ.) Plus I really miss the old fart.
And lastly, I know the rule was no family but I have to ask Mitochondrial Eve to my shindig. How could you not invite mankind’s mom? And of course that means everyone else on my guest list would also be relative anyway.

Kermit the frog, I’d fill the empty chairs with my stuffed animals